That is a travel team beating a town team. Not impressed! Actually chaminade should be embarrassed that they didn't win by more being that the school draws talent from a much larger area!
Really? A town/travel argument? When a team is ranked in the top ten nationally that discussion is irrelevant.
It is relevant. When a public HS makes top ten nationally, that is huge! Kids coming from one town, working very hard and putting an extraordinary team together (on a public school budget) When you have a private school, drawing kids from all over, with resources and funds that no public school will ever receive. The coaching, the facilities, the $$$ that flows through that program is astonishing! They should be a "Machine"! Congratulations to Massapequa, SW and any other public school that can actually compete on a field with that. Chaminade is a great team, absolutely, but saying the town/travel is irrelevant is wrong.
What is the admission process for Massapequa HS? Oh yeah, there isn't one. Chaminade does not recruit athletes or give athletic sholarships. So while it is true they draw from multiple towns, all their players have to first qualify academicaly. I am sure we can all identify players who would have like to go to Chaminade but couldn't get in. So that is a limitation that public schools dont have. Ande you can go back-and-forth with this forever. I am just making the point, contrary to what some have argued, that Chaminade lax coaches do not have the luxury of choosing which kids they want to take. There are many players they would love to have but who cannot meet the academic threshold for admission.
