[quote=Anonymous]Do players have to choose whether they will compete in Nike or UA All American games? Why wouldn't they do both if they could?[quote]

Many do both. However, when Nike came on the scene, they scheduled tryouts at exactly the same time as the UA tryouts and the NLF clubs strongly encouraged their kids to tryout for Nike. UA, or All-America now because UA dropped out of lacrosse, is still a big deal at just about every else. In Baltimore, Nike seems to have surpassed All-America, but elsewhere they are about the same. The (formerly UA) senior game, with ESPN and other sponsors behind it for both boys and girls, is still the better event by far. They may be able to maintain a solid foothold with the seniors in that event supposedly chosed from the ranks of the kids who competed in the underclass games. Both are still very presitgious events and college coaches turn out for both in spades. Nike is way more expensive because you pay another $300 on top of tryout fees if you make the team. All-America has slid to later in the summer and some kids are done by then.