Originally Posted by Anonymous
Where are you getting these numbers ? From freshmen year on the number dwindles dramatically. 56 kids tried out for Varsity 44 on team including 4 goalies. Garden City, Manhasset, had just as many. In addition after freshmen year many return to their public school for many reasons. Work load one but lack of playing time when they could be a super star on their public school team is big reason. Before you read the next line I am in no way comparing the 2. Just like parents think their kids are D1 material they think they are going to make and star on Chaminades team and it does not happen. You have freshmen coaches looking at many kids they know nothing about (maybe a few they are aware of) and picking a team on 8 practices. Some slip by and never get a chance it happens. Not every great player on LI (who wants to go to Chaminade) gets in. That is why NCC is so good year after year and the so called lower teir D1 schools are so competitive. LOVE THE FACT THAT SO MANY SCHOOLS ON LI ARE AS GOOD AS THEY ARE WETHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE. JUST SIT BACK ENJOY THE GAME.


Based on your logic, the Ivies would never be competitive. Yet Yale, Princeton, Brown and Cornell are highly competitive. Chaminade has 500 plus boys per grade. From a lacrosse perspective, based on your statements, those kids decided to go to Chaminade for lacrosse first. With that much talent, and so many boys to choose from, it would seem almost impossible that they would lose to a public school that has 100+ boys per grade. How many boys in these public schools are actually even still playing lacrosse in 9-12 grade, 10-15 per grade max? You talk about GC and Set having the same number of kids, difference is 10 of those kids are 9th an 10th graders. Think about it.