Chasing t-shirts! Daddy ball! Holdbacks! Too many on the roster! A tournaments! B teams! That’s all you old ladies talk about. What’s the goal? To have your son become a better lacrosse player? Or is it to be on the best lacrosse team in middle school? You want to know who’s going to play at a high level in high school and college? It’s really easy. It’s tougher to extrapolate how skilled a player will become in the next few years, especially since most of these boys haven’t hit puberty, so don’t bother looking at the play in the field for a few years. Look on the sidelines. See all of those pleasantly plump, 5’7” and under loudmouths? Those kids are doomed. I don’t care how good they are right now. They are currently enjoying their glory days and so are the parents.
