Lacrosse is a third rate sport in NCAA, more people at a bad D3 football game than a D1 Lacrosse game. Realistically, no one cares, nor will they ever care. Sport is funded by football and basketball, even baseball throws a few bucks Lacrosse way, that is the truth. No one cares but you. But I still love it
SPOT ON! Love the sport but the facts are the facts. These loons are also entertaining.
Your missing the point!! My kids will all be going to college .I don't care if my kids plays lax in college. I want age based for a variety reasons ( fun, developing, safety, fair estimation of the work they put in.,.But scholarships are not one of them. Youth sports all need to have enforced age requirements.
So you’re saying you want your son to play PAL, but not in a town with A team and B team. Great. Stick with that and leave the big boys alone.
It will never happen in travel. Kids are recruited by the year they will be entering college. With the new enforcement of the rules you might be better off. Big difference between 14 and 13 years old.. A little less with 16 to 15. Some people will do anything to try and give their kids an advantage. Just get used to it.
As far as fair estimation of the work they put in, STOP. Some kids are just natural athletes and are better. If they are putting in that much work in 5th grade the natural ones will pass them by in 10th grade.
This is a 2025 board - if you read the older age boards, which I do, because I also have a 2021, the support for age-based play is advocated largely for all pre-HS aged players, and there are actually a larger number of boys playing travel lacrosse below the HS ages than within the HS ages. While there is less concern about age-based play for HS-ages, the whole recruiting by grade argument is so hollow considering that every other major sport is age-based, and somehow all of those sports' college coaches are more than able to recruit accordingly, and they do so across a pool of student athletes that dwarf the number of lacrosse players. Considering that all of the other major sports are age-based, you realize that your grade-based argument essentially boils down to all of those sports "got it wrong"?!
