Really?? There are great athletes all over the Island.... How do you explain year in and year out success of the top public school lax programs ( manhasset, gc, wm, csh...)??
Spoiler alert: clearly it's not because those towns (manhasset,gc,wm,csh) have the best althletes
Coaching, coaching, coaching...
... Any of the forementioned school's coach would salivate given the D1 talent at a place like Northport
More of a factor than coaching is the strength of the youth programs that feed the top High School programs. All of the HS powerhouses have great youth programs that introduce the game early and develop players way before HS. Drive by the fields in the communities of the top HS programs and you will see the bustle of activity on any given day.
Less to do with the youth program and more to do with the extra work put in by the kids and the families. The best kids in the towns listed below are the ones who do much more than play in the local youth program.
--"Not so much the feeder system as it is the extra work the kids put in. Wall ball, having a catch with dad, club team, camps, clinics, private lessons and playing year round. CSH, Manhasset, Garden City, Ward Melville, West Islip, Massapequa and some others that is what the kids do. At the smaller schools less likely to be strong at both lacrosse and baseball but at Massapequa and Ward Melville both can be very strong."
