Anonymous wrote:You guys are just so out of touch if you actually think STA doesn't recruit for lax. Sure they dont go full steam like Bullis or SJC, but they absolutely recruit. 100%. Hear this same stuff from GZ parents and is baloney.

The only true WCAC/IAC team that you could argue doesn't recruit is The Heights as the school offers no merit scholarships in general - but im sure they've worked a couple guys into the mix too.

Recruiting is part of DMVLAX, get over it - your school does it whether u want to admit it or not!

P.S - Its not too hard to tell the fact that those who are saying St. Alban's doesn't recruit are STA parents.

That’s some genius insight that STA parents, who know what’s going on at the school, are commenting. Well done. As opposed to you, who have zero facts but insist on making baseless assertions.

STA does not have merit scholarships, only need based. Athletes are not going there, ever, because they will pay less. If your family can pay, they do. As stated before, almost all of the kids on the team have been at the school since they were much younger, in the Lower School. No one could know if they would be good at lacrosse. This includes the kids you are referencing. If STA was a recruiting machine it would have a deeper lacrosse team and its other sports teams would be competitive, which they are largely not.

Just be happy with what you have instead of opining on things you know nothing about. Good luck on your season.

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Anonymous wrote:That's not the same as saying STA doesn't recruit for lacrosse, period, which is what was said. These people may think better academics than Landon and still good lacrosse, but that is still very different than a public school that has to take whatever they get in their area.

By that logic, everyone that plays lacrosse at any private private school instead of their public school is “recruited”. That’s obviously not the case.

Nope, that's not the same at all. The average players usually aren't actively recruited, but you can be sure that almost all of the top players on every one of the better teams were recruited.

This conversation is dumb. Nobody cares, time to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:That's not the same as saying STA doesn't recruit for lacrosse, period, which is what was said. These people may think better academics than Landon and still good lacrosse, but that is still very different than a public school that has to take whatever they get in their area.

By that logic, everyone that plays lacrosse at any private private school instead of their public school is “recruited”. That’s obviously not the case.

Nope, that's not the same at all. The average players usually aren't actively recruited, but you can be sure that almost all of the top players on every one of the better teams were recruited.

Anonymous wrote:You guys are just so out of touch if you actually think STA doesn't recruit for lax. Sure they dont go full steam like Bullis or SJC, but they absolutely recruit. 100%. Hear this same stuff from GZ parents and is baloney.

The only true WCAC/IAC team that you could argue doesn't recruit is The Heights as the school offers no merit scholarships in general - but im sure they've worked a couple guys into the mix too.

Recruiting is part of DMVLAX, get over it - your school does it whether u want to admit it or not!

P.S - Its not too hard to tell the fact that those who are saying St. Alban's doesn't recuit are STA parents.

Name the recruited kids then. The supposedly recruited kids cited above were not in fact recruited. I know this as a 100% certainty.

Why is this even a discussion? STA doesn't have that many "good" lacrosse players. Their depth is non-existent. They will be bottom half of IAC again unless Landon is as bad as people suggest they are this year.

Anonymous wrote:That's not the same as saying STA doesn't recruit for lacrosse, period, which is what was said. These people may think better academics than Landon and still good lacrosse, but that is still very different than a public school that has to take whatever they get in their area.

By that logic, everyone that plays lacrosse at any private private school instead of their public school is “recruited”. That’s obviously not the case.

You guys are just so out of touch if you actually think STA doesn't recruit for lax. Sure they dont go full steam like Bullis or SJC, but they absolutely recruit. 100%. Hear this same stuff from GZ parents and is baloney.

The only true WCAC/IAC team that you could argue doesn't recruit is The Heights as the school offers no merit scholarships in general - but im sure they've worked a couple guys into the mix too.

Recruiting is part of DMVLAX, get over it - your school does it whether u want to admit it or not!

P.S - Its not too hard to tell the fact that those who are saying St. Alban's doesn't recuit are STA parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Riverside is normally a NOVA public, perhaps they are down for their standards this year?

They did upset Gonzaga last season.

They are always a NOVA public. In the past they had multiple D1 commits. They can only play with the kids who live in the geography of the school district. private schools recruit the entire DMV.

Um, sure. There are 2,000 kids at Riverside, 300 hundred at STA and similar at other privates. 99% of the kids at STA aren’t recruited.

This is a ridiculous statement. You are saying that all of those talented lacrosse players just happen to just show up at STA, strictly for educational purposes, with never talking to the coaches about playing lacrosse? haha

NP, I think what the PP was saying is that STA does not recruit the same way that SJC and some others do.

If someone is diehard lacrosse, they typically aren't choosing to go to a perennial bottom feeder in the IAC, they'll choose to go to schools with better teams/lacrosse history that also provide strong educations.

Sorry the facts do not align with your post. The LSM and FOGO are two of the best in the area and they chose STA as well as several other committed players. All chose to go to the school v. playing for the local public school.

I think the PP's supposition is that they chose STA for non-lacrosse reasons -- because they'd have gone to Bullis, Prep or Landon (or Gonzaga or SJC) if lacrosse were the primary focus.

Yes, but some really good lacrosse players still chose to go to STA so it was good enough. We are not comparing STA to Bullis, Prep, or Landon but to a public High School way our yonder that is almost to West Virginia that gets the few players that do play at all.

Any good games today?

That's not the same as saying STA doesn't recruit for lacrosse, period, which is what was said. These people may think better academics than Landon and still good lacrosse, but that is still very different than a public school that has to take whatever they get in their area.

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Anonymous wrote:Riverside is normally a NOVA public, perhaps they are down for their standards this year?

They did upset Gonzaga last season.

They are always a NOVA public. In the past they had multiple D1 commits. They can only play with the kids who live in the geography of the school district. private schools recruit the entire DMV.

Um, sure. There are 2,000 kids at Riverside, 300 hundred at STA and similar at other privates. 99% of the kids at STA aren’t recruited.

This is a ridiculous statement. You are saying that all of those talented lacrosse players just happen to just show up at STA, strictly for educational purposes, with never talking to the coaches about playing lacrosse? haha

NP, I think what the PP was saying is that STA does not recruit the same way that SJC and some others do.

If someone is diehard lacrosse, they typically aren't choosing to go to a perennial bottom feeder in the IAC, they'll choose to go to schools with better teams/lacrosse history that also provide strong educations.

Sorry the facts do not align with your post. The LSM and FOGO are two of the best in the area and they chose STA as well as several other committed players. All chose to go to the school v. playing for the local public school.

I think the PP's supposition is that they chose STA for non-lacrosse reasons -- because they'd have gone to Bullis, Prep or Landon (or Gonzaga or SJC) if lacrosse were the primary focus.

Anonymous wrote:PVI was up big on Heights when I left near end of the third.

PVI scored 5 seconds into the game and was up 12-2 at half. Surprising result after Heights played Landon even for 4 quarters.

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Anonymous wrote:Riverside is normally a NOVA public, perhaps they are down for their standards this year?

They did upset Gonzaga last season.

They are always a NOVA public. In the past they had multiple D1 commits. They can only play with the kids who live in the geography of the school district. private schools recruit the entire DMV.

Um, sure. There are 2,000 kids at Riverside, 300 hundred at STA and similar at other privates. 99% of the kids at STA aren’t recruited.

This is a ridiculous statement. You are saying that all of those talented lacrosse players just happen to just show up at STA, strictly for educational purposes, with never talking to the coaches about playing lacrosse? haha

Yes, that is exactly what I’m saying. Families send their kids to STA for a hundred reasons other than lacrosse. The vast majority of the kids on that team have been there long before high school, long before anyone knew they would be good at lacrosse. I’m sorry if that’s tough for you to accept, but it is a fact. Those kids are there to get a great education and (hopefully) go to a great college. If they develop in to decent lacrosse players between 4th or 7th grade and high school, bonus.

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Anonymous wrote:Riverside is normally a NOVA public, perhaps they are down for their standards this year?

They did upset Gonzaga last season.

They are always a NOVA public. In the past they had multiple D1 commits. They can only play with the kids who live in the geography of the school district. private schools recruit the entire DMV.

Um, sure. There are 2,000 kids at Riverside, 300 hundred at STA and similar at other privates. 99% of the kids at STA aren’t recruited.

This is a ridiculous statement. You are saying that all of those talented lacrosse players just happen to just show up at STA, strictly for educational purposes, with never talking to the coaches about playing lacrosse? haha

NP, I think what the PP was saying is that STA does not recruit the same way that SJC and some others do.

If someone is diehard lacrosse, they typically aren't choosing to go to a perennial bottom feeder in the IAC, they'll choose to go to schools with better teams/lacrosse history that also provide strong educations.

Sorry the facts do not align with your post. The LSM and FOGO are two of the best in the area and they chose STA as well as several other committed players. All chose to go to the school v. playing for the local public school.

Sorry but the actual facts do not align with your narrative. You have ZERO clue about the individual decisions these families made. Some are multi-generational STA and others were always going to STA based on its academics. Furthermore, do you know what the local public school is? Probably not. It wasn’t on the table.

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Anonymous wrote:Riverside is normally a NOVA public, perhaps they are down for their standards this year?

They did upset Gonzaga last season.

They are always a NOVA public. In the past they had multiple D1 commits. They can only play with the kids who live in the geography of the school district. private schools recruit the entire DMV.

Um, sure. There are 2,000 kids at Riverside, 300 hundred at STA and similar at other privates. 99% of the kids at STA aren’t recruited.

This is a ridiculous statement. You are saying that all of those talented lacrosse players just happen to just show up at STA, strictly for educational purposes, with never talking to the coaches about playing lacrosse? haha

NP, I think what the PP was saying is that STA does not recruit the same way that SJC and some others do.

If someone is diehard lacrosse, they typically aren't choosing to go to a perennial bottom feeder in the IAC, they'll choose to go to schools with better teams/lacrosse history that also provide strong educations.

Sorry the facts do not align with your post. The LSM and FOGO are two of the best in the area and they chose STA as well as several other committed players. All chose to go to the school v. playing for the local public school.

and also v. "schools with better teams/lacrosse history". At every level, athletes should make enrollment decisions based on the best match for more than just lacrosse.