Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
For all the haters on UA Senior Team selections there are 65 UA All-Americans playing this weekend. Maybe they do know what they are doing after all....

In most cases, there is a direct correlation between the number of Under Armour All-Americans a team brings in and how competitive the team is.
There are 95 players playing this weekend who weren’t on UA. 2 ways to look at it.

Obviously not every player on a team is going to be an Under Armour All-American. 44 players are selected each year, over the past 5 years that's a total of 220 players (not all are still playing, not all eligible 5th years came back, some injuries etc...), There are more than 100 DI women's lacrosse teams and more than 3,000 women competing.

Here is another way to look at it...

Over the past 5 years 24 DI women's programs have brought in at least 1 Under Armour All-American

North Carolina - 23
Maryland - 20
Syracuse - 18
Florida - 14
Notre Dame - 14
Northwestern - 12
Virginia - 12
Boston College - 11
Duke - 10
Stanford - 10
Loyola - 9
Princeton - 7
Penn State - 7
Penn - 5
USC - 5
Hopkins - 4
Stony Brook - 3
Towson - 3
Harvard - 3
Ohio State - 3
Richmond - 2
Va Tech - 2
Yale - 2
Colorado - 1
Oregon - 1
Michigan - 1

(Ivy's have no 5th year or Graduate students)

If you look at recent history 2016 - 2019 even (20' and 21' although they are not normal years) the following teams are always Top 20 at the end of the season:

Maryland
North Carolina
Boston College
Northwestern
Syracuse
Virginia
Princeton
Penn
Stony Brook
Florida

Notre Dame, JMU, Penn State might miss a year but are there just about every year,

Duke had a few off years but was still "others receiving votes or Top 25, Loyola probably similar.

At the end of the day, it is very simple, The Best College Programs consistently bring in The Best HS Players (many of which happen to be Under Armour All-Americans).

Haters like to try and elevate their daughter by trying to tear down or diminish the accomplishments of others.

I have even read on this site how the coaches at the Top College Programs get it wrong "all the time" If they keep getting it wrong, why do they keep winning?

There are plenty of very good players who are not selected to the Under Armour Team but the vast majority of those players still end up at the Top College Programs.

The fact that the coaches at the top college programs and the people who select the UA Team appear to agree on who the best players are says a lot.