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Anonymous wrote:My son is the fastest kid on his football team, by far. He is probably the fastest kid in the entire FCYFL, at his his weight class. He is white, but his team and the FCYFL include a lot of minority players from the entire economic spectrum. Yet he is only second or third fastest on his travel lacrosse team. Don't tell me these boys are not athletes. Yes, some are rich and white (why so many view that as a crime is beyond me). But many of them are great athletes and in more than one sport. It is a great sport to watch by the way.

1. If you are measuring how fast your son is compared to other kids in his football league, you have a lot of issues.

2. What difference does it make that there are a "lot of minority players from the entire economic spectrum"? What relevance is that?

Not measuring, but it is hard not to notice when he runs past everyone and catches kids from behind. You seriously can't figure out who the fastest athletes on the field or court are just by watching a game? You never noticed that Kobe was faster than Shaq and Deion was faster than just about everyone? Perhaps it is you who has issues, with perceiving events accurately and paying attention....


If you actually read this thread you would notice commenters alleging lacrosse is a sport for rich white kids, and these athlete wannabes only do well because of the lack of minority participation. St is he relevance. If you are going to comment, please at least make it intelligent and on point.

Anonymous wrote:My son is the fastest kid on his football team, by far. He is probably the fastest kid in the entire FCYFL, at his his weight class. He is white, but his team and the FCYFL include a lot of minority players from the entire economic spectrum. Yet he is only second or third fastest on his travel lacrosse team. Don't tell me these boys are not athletes. Yes, some are rich and white (why so many view that as a crime is beyond me). But many of them are great athletes and in more than one sport. It is a great sport to watch by the way.

1. If you are measuring how fast your son is compared to other kids in his football league, you have a lot of issues.

2. What difference does it make that there are a "lot of minority players from the entire economic spectrum"? What relevance is that?

My son is the fastest kid on his football team, by far. He is probably the fastest kid in the entire FCYFL, at his his weight class. He is white, but his team and the FCYFL include a lot of minority players from the entire economic spectrum. Yet he is only second or third fastest on his travel lacrosse team. Don't tell me these boys are not athletes. Yes, some are rich and white (why so many view that as a crime is beyond me). But many of them are great athletes and in more than one sport. It is a great sport to watch by the way.

The people criticizing the passion for LAX among those of us in the bubble reminds me ofEuropeans who can't grasp the passion for American football in the United States.

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Lacrosse has been around longer than any of the sports you mentioned, given that it's a Native American sport and tradition. I am a former lacrosse player, and while I'm not crazy about lacrosse culture, I've been around it long enough to know that a lot of the generalizations in this thread are just that-- generalizations. I could sit and refute every single point that you mentioned, but that would be a waste of everyone's time because it's immediately evident from reading your post that you're incredibly ignorant. Having been around the sport my whole life has also given me the opportunity to meet and befriend a number of Native American people, most of whom were/are lacrosse players. Talking to them about the sport, which is in their blood and is an enormous part of their storied culture, will give you a new spin on the sport and hopefully reconsider your opinions which seem to be shamelessly shaped by the DC Urban Mom anti-lacrosse circlejerk. If not, keep fighting the good fight on internet forums by attacking local private schools that your kids didn't get into. This is my first and last post ever on this website, which has to be one of the worst things ever created.

As they say - if you don't get it, you don't get it. There are some who legitimately don't get LAX - often because they came from working class roots. There are others who understand LAX all too well and it has become the bane of their existence for reasons unknown - they pretend it is not important and yet are tormented by the failure of the school they boost.

PP, Unfortunately I grew up in that culture and am surrounded by it now. I actually like lacrosse and am happy to be in a hotbed of the sport but the behavior of many players has left a bitter taste -- Just looks at behavior of lacrosse players in recent years. When I was in school, lacrosse players were usually the first to get loud and obnoxious at a party -- Imagine a video of Incognito at pool bar -- and the first to get smacked down because they were 5'9" and 150 pounds -- Unlike Incognito. I actually knew several D-I athletes in HS, some of who reached the pros, and none of them were as obnoxious as the lacrosse players in our neighborhood. Unfortunately, the culture has not changed.

Anonymous wrote:Lax is not a real sport. It was adopted by families of the rising Northeast upper-middle class because their kids were typically not athletic enough to play traditional sports (football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey, etc.) and not wealthy enough for the sports of the upper-class (crew and equestrian). I grew up with kids who played lacrosse and although some of them also played football and basketball, they were not standouts like they were in lacrosse. Similarly, the kids who were standouts in their main sport, were usually standouts in other sports as well. But good for those players who are able to leverage the sport into a scholarship at a top school. But don't be fooled into believing these folks are exceptional athletes. You have a limited number of lacrosse players, which gives them a better chance of receiving a college scholarship. It is nothing like basketball, football, soccer or baseball where you one HS conference will be lucky to have one or two D-I players. Landon and GP probably send at least ten kids a year to play D-I. In comparison, Dematha has one of the premier HS basketball programs in the worlds and might send two players a year to play D-I.

Wow - you come across as a both a snob and complete trash all in the same paragraph. The idiocy of your post is a new DCUM low.

Lax is not a real sport. It was adopted by families of the rising Northeast upper-middle class because their kids were typically not athletic enough to play traditional sports (football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey, etc.) and not wealthy enough for the sports of the upper-class (crew and equestrian). I grew up with kids who played lacrosse and although some of them also played football and basketball, they were not standouts like they were in lacrosse. Similarly, the kids who were standouts in their main sport, were usually standouts in other sports as well. But good for those players who are able to leverage the sport into a scholarship at a top school. But don't be fooled into believing these folks are exceptional athletes. You have a limited number of lacrosse players, which gives them a better chance of receiving a college scholarship. It is nothing like basketball, football, soccer or baseball where you one HS conference will be lucky to have one or two D-I players. Landon and GP probably send at least ten kids a year to play D-I. In comparison, Dematha has one of the premier HS basketball programs in the worlds and might send two players a year to play D-I.

I went to a game the other day with my sister. I was struck by how lily white the families were. There were no AA and only two other apparent players of color - bi-racial (Asian + Caucasian). What gives?

Anonymous wrote:All this Madlax trash talk got me to their website. I was very impressed by the college placement of the players. So basically the entire AA team will go on to play college?

Sure it did. NOT! This sounds like such an obvious pr post by someone doing damage control. So transparent.

Is it possible to just play for the summer season (i.e., recruitment season). Or are there no spots available on the club teams by then?

All this Madlax trash talk got me to their website. I was very impressed by the college placement of the players. So basically the entire AA team will go on to play college?

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Anonymous wrote:What happens after U-15 for Next Level players? Do they just play for their HS team? Or do they join Madlax or VLC?

I thought Next Level fielded high school aged, post U-15 teams. Is that not right?>

Their HS program is not very good and very unorganized. They often have to combine 9th/10th into one team.

Is the Next Level HS program made up of kids from many different schools, or is that time populated by 1 or 2 main feeders?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any Bethesda League Lacrosse players who went on to play at the college level?

I think a lot of the Wooton/WJ/Churchill kids played in the Bethesda League (and Rockville before it went away). I know a bunch that play in college.

Bethesda has the rep of a lot of Wooton/WJ/Churchill types. Generally a Potomac oriented group, lots of short, helicopter dads that would be happy to have a U of Md- lacrosse-playing-son. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it isn't the mindset of some of the other clubs. The Prep kids aim higher as do the Madlax and Next Level kids. Just the way it is. Bethesda is trying to rebrand itself with a pretentious new logo meant to look like a crest and now calling themselves BLC (Bethesda Lacrosse Club). Strivers for sure - kind of funny that they think that would impress anyone.

These 'Dad's" are at every lacrosse club. Just observe any sideline at a lacrosse tournament. This is why we sit away from all the parents. They are all insufferable thinking there kid is headed for D-1 lacrosse.