I know a goalie from the Maryland/DC area who received a full athletic, no academic money, lacrosse scholarship. Playing a D1 sport is [lacrosse], rremeber what you wish for. Most girls get little or no athletic money. Big name lacrosse schools usually only give out 25% to incoming freshmen, they then may increase it if they contribute to the success of the team. Remember a fully funded program has only 12 scholarships to split up, many teams like Stanford are not fully funded and have even less scholarship money to spread around. Go to the the best academic school your daughter can get into, not the best lax program, ie choose Vassar, Stanford, Colgate over Penn State, UNC, Florida, or Maryland. The small elite universities have a far superior network base and the graduates have a much higher salary average.
Yeah, but there are some kids who want to play for love of the game. You have it sounding all too much like a job, go here and work cause it pays better. There is plenty of time for that, the rest of their lives will be spent doing that. If it were a pure finacial thing, save the $5k + a year spent on lax teams, tournament, equipment, training, recruiting, cothes etc... get you daughter an after school job during HS and college and full time summer job instead of time spent at lax practice and games. Seriously, add up 6 years of HS and 4 years of college, how much time spent playing instead of what could have been spent earning, now throw in the 30-50k++ many spend on the sport. The point is, most of us throw this out the window because the kids love to play. If you try to put a finacial scholarship justification spin on the whole thing, there is no doubt it is a losing battle for nearly all involved, except the people making the money off lax. You do allude to the real value, and it's not scholarship money. If your kid can get into a better college because of lacrosse, that's where the value may be, but again if she spent all the time studying rather than playing lax, she would likely have the grades to get in anyway, so again it is back to play for the love of the game.
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