I have heard coaches Danowski and Tierney speak on several occasions about this very subject and they both agreed that they preferred to see multi-sport atheletes when they recruited.
Yet the majority of the kids they actually recruit only play lacrosse??
Attack and Goalie are skill postions less likely to see multi-sport
Look at most D1 Lax midfields and defenses - they are full of players with multi-sport backgrounds
Duke/Danowski is a great example already noted
If you are suggesting Duke would take a kid with less talent because they like the fact that he plays another sport then I think that is wrong. They take the best players they can get. If a top lax recruit happens to play another sport then that is "great" but I seriously question the notion that Duke or any other D1 school affirmatively looks for multisport athletes. I know that is what they say publicly and perhaps it makes them seem more holistic and chill...but it makes no sense as others have pointed out.
P.S. I think Fowler is a bad recruiting example anyway. Didn't he originally make the team as a walk-on?
