I just got back with my kid from Lake Placid Summit classic tournament. It was a last minute add for us so I hadn't paid a lot of attention to the rosters/schedule until I was there.
In addition to the regular local-ish New York, New England teams (Spallina, Storm, 3D, Salt City, etc) I noticed that there was an entire division of teams for college hopefuls/commits from all over the country. Teams like Baby Blues (UNC), Baby Saplings (Stanford), Ydogs (Yale). Given that each college only recruits a handful or two of players each year, how are there enough recruits to field an entire team?
Can anyone shed light on how this works - are girls on these teams selectively invited and coached by the regular lax coach? Is this seen as a potential way for college coaches to actually coach and interact with high schoolers? There was absolutely no evidence of any official recruiting (coach zones, VIP coach tent etc), just a thousand or so high school lax players.
Most commit classes have 6-8 girls, and the commit teams are usually 2 years (12-16 girls between 2022-2023 classes) plus maybe a few other players/commits from other schools/friends, etc, to fill out the team if needed. It's a chance for the incoming girls to get to play together and get to know each other before they go to school. College coaches usually aren't there for the girls (think it's a dead period), although many do the Philly tournament in late July. It's a chance to see their commits play and get to know them before coming to campus. While the lax at LP is decent, it is much more of a social/team building experience for the commits.
