My non lacrosse playing daughter got 25K/per year academic scholarship to a D1 school, her best friend with the same EXACT SAT scores/GPA got a whopping 18K from same school to play D 1 sport. Friend had to go to school a month earlier than mine did for practices etc.
Friends parents spent quite a bit of cash over the years on travel teams/camps etc. They now said d would have been better to have gone in academically, and walked on. $7,000 x 4 years=(-)28,000 K + camps/travel
If your kid absolutely loves what he/she is doing, that is all that matters, but don't think scholarship money is there,

Just one of MANY other burned kids, so the MOST important thing is SAT/grades and don't think otherwise.