If a student is unhappy at their current school due to academics, athletics, social, religious reasons, there is nothing wrong with looking at or transferring to another school. It is not always the right fit. It really is not teams looking for players but rather players looking for a better fit.
Landon has a goalie who was not happy at the Heights

Sidwell had a player that went to St Alban's
St Steven's had a player that went to Bullis.
Episcopal has players come and go each year.
Prep has players come in from Florida.

The IAC has hardly any rules and quite franklynothing is ever enforced.

Anonymous wrote:"Poaching" is a term of art. If a player comes to a school all on his own (maybe somebody who previously applied and turned down a spot earlier), that's not considered poaching, generally. It's most often used to describe a philosophy of encouraging transfers within the same league/conference, and somewhat less in the same geographic area.

The big Catholic sports powerhouse leagues in various parts of the country know this can happen and have rules (e.g., have to sit out a year if you transfer to another league school). The private school rules, assuming more gentlemanly behavior, don't have such rules and we are seeing much more transferring as a result. If it gets significant enough, maybe they will change the athletic eligibility rules, but I tend to doubt it -- schools like and live the 'independent' label.

Refreshing to read a post from someone who actually knows what they are talking about.

These players that some feel are "poached" actually are making the first contacts with other schools. They are unhappy at their current school for a variety of reasons including dissatisfaction with their current coaches.

What these people who are railing against "poaching" are talking about is their disappointment that these other schools are encouraging the student to transfer (after the student makes first contact) and/or that they are admitting these transfer students from other IAC schools. By mis-using the term "poaching" they are confusing the discussion.

Other conferences have rules against transferring inside the conference regardless of the reason. But the IAC would like to stay away from a rules-intensive system, preferring to trust the good will and intentions of the other Conference schools.

The IAC, for better or worse, has very few rules against anything.

Landon Bullis game this Thursday night - predictions?

"Poaching" is a term of art. If a player comes to a school all on his own (maybe somebody who previously applied and turned down a spot earlier), that's not considered poaching, generally. It's most often used to describe a philosophy of encouraging transfers within the same league/conference, and somewhat less in the same geographic area.

The big Catholic sports powerhouse leagues in various parts of the country know this can happen and have rules (e.g., have to sit out a year if you transfer to another league school). The private school rules, assuming more gentlemanly behavior, don't have such rules and we are seeing much more transferring as a result. If it gets significant enough, maybe they will change the athletic eligibility rules, but I tend to doubt it -- schools like and live the 'independent' label.

Sidwells best player from last year ended up at St. Albans.

Why single out 2 schools?

A year ago, St. Johns best lacrosse player ended up at St. Stephens as a junior.

The Heights best player ended up at St. Andrews this Fall as a junior.

Anonymous wrote:You all realize this is a 38 page thread on local private school lacrosse, right?

Like, really?

And there are about 5 more threads like this floating around. This one is tame compared to the others.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much poaching of players goes on among these schools. I knew a lacrosse player from one of the schools discussed on this thread who transferred to another school discussed in this thread which has a stronger lacrosse team, but is arguably not as strong academically. Do these schools recruit players away from one anothet?

Landon and Bullis do. The other four schools do not poach from each other.

LOL. They all get kids from various areas. None of them are above reproach. Consider Prep who brought in two brothers from FL. One of them reclassed after playing his frosh year in FL. So he was not supposed to play all 4 years at Prep, but he did.

The question was not about recruiting in general, which happens everywhere, but about "recruit[ing] players away from each other," commonly known as poaching.

Er.....STA has some boarders too. Neither is really a "boarding school" in the sense that the number of boarders at both is quite small. EHS is the boarding school in the IAC.

Well prep is a boarding school. I believe one re classified at Mater Dei as an 8th grader and the other as a 9th grader at Prep.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much poaching of players goes on among these schools. I knew a lacrosse player from one of the schools discussed on this thread who transferred to another school discussed in this thread which has a stronger lacrosse team, but is arguably not as strong academically. Do these schools recruit players away from one anothet?

Landon and Bullis do. The other four schools do not poach from each other.

LOL. They all get kids from various areas. None of them are above reproach. Consider Prep who brought in two brothers from FL. One of them reclassed after playing his frosh year in FL. So he was not supposed to play all 4 years at Prep, but he did.

You all realize this is a 38 page thread on local private school lacrosse, right?

Like, really?

Bullis is by far the most active in poaching players. This year alone they brought in a kid from Mt Saint Joseph's from Baltimore and two kids from St Stephens.

Last year, they brought in a second semester senior transfer. Who does that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How much poaching of players goes on among these schools. I knew a lacrosse player from one of the schools discussed on this thread who transferred to another school discussed in this thread which has a stronger lacrosse team, but is arguably not as strong academically. Do these schools recruit players away from one another?

Landon and Bullis do. The other four schools do not poach from each other.

How do the schools who have their lacrosse players actively recruited by other schools feel about this practice?