Originally Posted by Anonymous
There are very strong districts with lots of quality girls playing lacrosse. They probably once started as a young team and grew the program from the bottom. The one district in question is trying to block younger girls from moving up just because older girls parents are crying the older girls will be displaced. The younger girls are better and have proven it multiple times. They play travel and put a lot of time into lacrosse. Parents of the older kids have formed a team and paid cash to varsity coach, excluding any younger girl from playing. Nobody is saying these kids are superstars or the next SS. They are just asking for a shot at JV. There is no coach in place in the middle school and parents just concerned middle school season would be lost time.


Fair enough if you ask me. I come from one of the better districts. Doing this also gives another girl the chance to play in MS. Take the star player/s off of the MS team and the others step up. This builds a program its called succession planning.

Many times the player doesn't see much of the games as Varsity but does participate in practices which are more controlled. For that star player it is a good move moving up to JV. Messhin with the girls two years older more like a 7th and a 9th grader. By the time that 7th is a sophomore and that 9th grader is a senior that team should have been together a few years and w