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"the question re private . is it worth it from a lacrosse perspective and can anyone actually speak positively about any of the schools?"


Of course there will be positive (and negative) comments about the private schools, why are you fishing for such subjective details?


Let's talk Lakeland HS and Wick for moment;


Lakeland HS has a Dartmouth lax recruit (’25 goalie), yet I know of a younger FO player that left Lakeland for Wick. Why leave Lakeland when there is proof that a player can be recruited to a top DI school?
Most likely, the Goalie is an exceptional student, while the younger player is just average in school and unlikely to have a high enough GPA to be considered.


So, how challenged is your son in the classroom?

One “top recruit” on a HS lax team isn’t the ringing endorsement you think it is, slappy. Hit the wall

Sorry, Im slow, are you saying the kids leave the public school where they are not a very good student to go to a private school that is just passing them through?

the question is, if i wanted to send my son to private, what schools/coaches do people like etc

Andrew Kirkaldy at Trinity Pawling seems to be doing a great job
Avon fired their coach, not sure who it is now
Bill Ball at Loomis building a powerhouse

Posner at Lawrenceville - powerhouse
Deerfield- always competitive

Tough question but at the highest level, the coaches at Brunswick are great. Founders league coaches at Choate, Westminster, Choate are incredibly well liked. Second tier, def look to Canterbury, GCDS and GFA.

Agree on Choate, Westy, and Hotchkiss. Taft has a second year coach and jury is out. Avon will be 3 head coaches in 3 years next year. Salisbury and TP have good respected programs and coaches but lower academic standards than these others. Loomis is loaded but will have 8 PGs this year so that’s what their philosophy is. Further afield, Deerfield is top notch and some of those ISL schools but they are smaller and probably more regional.

Any good section 1 games this weekend or next week?

At one point, the old Greeley guard rallying around the now fired coach, was harping on culture and said "look what happened on the girls side. We can't let that happen here." Really?! Don't threaten me with a good time

Quaker men are one year behind the ladies. The guys 25s are the women's 24s--the best with depth. Let's see if they can follow up the loss to Yorktown in the section finals with a first time section win. Let's see if they can roll to the state championship tournament.

The enormous culture shift in Greeley mens and women's lacrosse has been amazing to watch. It took a monumental amount of work to battle through old cultural cobwebs of being good enough. Complacency and inertia defined the culture.

The Quakers should take a deep breath, look at how far they have come, and get ready to roll! Onward!!!

Section 1 scrimmages yesterday.... rumblings...? what we got?

Greeley rolled Darien last night... 7-2 at the half, 8-3 end of three, then subbed out and still won by a few.....

Good for you... another Quack Quaker!
enough already!! go out and win something.. then you can come on here and brag all you like..

@JimSection1, get a life bud.....you post and then respond to your own posts... wow... Get a new hobby...no one wants to hear from you... senseless @ChillLaxin...

Iona manhandled Yorktown..but no surprise there.

They looked good, very fast paced. Will be fun to see how the rest of the week pans out.
Darien scrimmage Thursday then Don Bosco Saturday

No surprise how? Everyone expect Ytown to get smoked? Well that is what happened and things are different at Ytown this year.... could be a rough one.

Yup for sure a bit more of a challenge.

I don’t see the scrimmage results so much as a slight of ytown but possibly a preview of IP being very good this year. Y maybe not as deep this year but always a good program. Ip looked really sharp. They’re a much more complete team this year, the past two have had the majority of their production at hands of underclassmen which is no longer the case. End of the week will be much more telling and scrimmage results only mean so much but they looked like a team in mid season form

Iona Prep has been practicing since March 1st.

They also go to Florida for an entire week in February for "preseason" as a team.

No surprise they look in midseason form.

They also fixed their entire defensive issues from last year by just bringing in an entire transfer defense. Easy to fix issues when you can just go to the "portal" for help.

Yorktown and other publics have to rely on homegrown talent. Iona just takes your talent and then beats you with it.

Iona a glorified section 1 team, not a real private... Unless your HS team is terrible and or academics are horrendous, WHY would you send you kid to IONA. Its isn't a prestigious institution, its IONA PREP. not TAFT.. They will beat up on the low level teams and get will get rolled by the real privates... Football is a different story...They have a real program... respect, but, still the academics, woofa.

Greeley looked strong earlier this week. They pretty much manhandled Darian (Although missing some players). This was still a great showing from Greeley and theres a real chance they could have a shot at the section. Now that Somers is class C. Class B is really just a battle between Greeley and Y-town. Going to be fun to watch.

[quote=Anonymous]Iona a glorified section 1 team, not a real private... Unless your HS team is terrible and or academics are horrendous, WHY would you send you kid to IONA. Its isn't a prestigious institution, its IONA PREP. not TAFT.. They will beat up on the low level teams and get will get rolled by any real team (they wont play Mamaroneck or Rye for fear of losing and lets be clear Yorktown isn't what it once once. For a team that can recruit theyre not very good. My guess is 25-3 against Chaminade and 30-1 against St Anthony. They will win no faceoffs and Gary the Goat will have a field day. Cant wait to see Bosco light them up for 20 as well.

Darien 14 Iona Prep 10, scrimmage from yesterday

Iona is 20k a year , Taft is 75k a year , why not send your kid to iona? Iona coach Trizano is a world class human being. coaches because he loves lacrosse, loves Iona!! pocket 55k in the meantime!! Taft is struggling . Taft has d1 players galore and gets smoked in the last 2 games. only takeaway is the coaching is poor? Look at Loomis, they put the beatdown on Malvern Prep and won the founders league last year . If your looking to go private and your from the tristate area . just not sure why you would waste your money for boarding school

I would look at

Fairfield Prep
Iona,
Dom Bosco

are you fool? i would say Iona would kill any public in section 1 easy - great coach, great players, great value !! as far as taft versus Iona, i bet Iona would beat them this year. im betting iona and Wick would be a good game this year as well .

Further proof you don’t need a school like a Taft. Dom bosco just beat Georgetown prep by 1. Taft it says only by 1 in OT. Save your money.

Greeley 9, Cold Spring Harbor 8......................................................

Greeley is winning class B no doubt.

I’m not affiliated with either of these schools but I think Rye and Mamaroneck would beat Iona Prep. Rye by more than several goals

Don’t be dense about boarding school price tag. They have enormous resources and based on income and other factors the commitment may be commensurate with a place like Fairfield Prep and Iona and those schools would lap them on the field.

OH My you really are feeling full of yourself.

Iona got destroyed by Bosco and you think they would do well against Brunswick? Please explain but here is my view
Brunswick is currently one of the top ranked teams in the country that plays against the top players. Iona’s schedule is weak and they do not have the depth to match up.
Coaching- Trizano truly a bad human being. Youre delusional at best. Stay away from this man and his band of drunk driving college drop out sideline lunatics. The man is out of control.
On the field:
FO- Iona not winning a single one (Trizano chased fo kid out of Iona)
D- Iona does not have enough Defenders to cope with Wicks depth. Just look what Bosco did to them and Brunswick has more depth and better players. Brunswicks D of Princeton, ND and Hopkins will shut down the UNC 2 man offense of Iona (one of which left Wick because he wasn’t getting on the lacrosse or football field.)
A/M- Depth and star power go to Brunswick. The UNC kids are good but Brunswick plays those type of kids all the time and easily match with their own UNC, a UVA, Penn, Richmond and a few others.
G- Maybe this is a tie but IP will not have the ball so this will not make a difference
Winning ability- Iona lost to Stepinac last year. They dont know how to win a challenging game. They beat the teams theyre supposed to and lose to the good ones that put them on the schedule.
Play with a shot clock or no?
Please go watch the replays of Brunswick vs Deerfield and Iona vs Don Bosco yesterday and please tell me what I missed and have wrong on the above.
Iona wouldn’t beat Rye or Mamaroneck so have fun playing Kellenberg.
#trizanoout

Chip Davis is at Deerfield for 25+ years because he is a great person, coach and mentor. If you have the chance to send your kid there do it.
Bill Ball is building similar and has the same characteristics. Someone that will make your child a better person
Posner is all lacrosse all the time. You cant play another sport and the kids aren’t having fun. If it is your thing he is the best coach out there..

Oh, so you’re really asking if people are fool? Iona wouldn’t beat Rye, can’t keep pace with Taft, and would definitely get steamrolled by Brunswick. Yes, Taft and Brunswick are loaded with reclasses, but guess what? They’re actually all really freaking good—just take a look at the commitment lists for the 3 teams. Two commits to UNC and you think youre hot stuff. And seriously, if you’re so well-coached, then why did you lose to Stepinac last year? So, what’s your brilliant prediction for the Chaminade and St. Anthony’s games?

Iona is a joke. Academically, culturally and lacrosse wise. Debating Iona vs founders league based on academics, culture and lacrosse is fool. Iona Prep administration wouldn’t even position it as such. Youre better off moving to Darien or New Canaan (cheaper than Brunswick) if you dont want to send them away.

Graham Niemi at FP is superb.

Maybe Iona isn’t the end all , be all. But spending 75k on a school like Taft is not always the smart play. Coaching staff doesn’t care if they win or lose. They are 1-3 , to start the season

When your graduate from Iona you get to keep your black cleats, which is huge.... @ChillLaxin all the way around... Their uniforms look look like a dry heave...and ease up on the use of the Gael logo, I mean us AI to create a better version. Its cartoon meets terrible.

Fella, I dont think you send your kid to Taft just for lacrosse. Go visit the school, check out the campus, review the aluminary network and look at the curriculum. It is in a different class than Iona and at 1-3 it is against top teams in the country in the top league in the country. Iona is a glorified section 1 school. They dont help with recruiting so if youre smart and local you go to Fordham.

Slow guy here again, are you saying Iona is a better investment than Taft because you think Iona lacrosse is better than Taft lacrosse because Taft is 1-3 to start the season? When you read that out loud, does it sound ignorant to you at all?

This is just one mans opinion after spending all weekend listening to 8th grade parents talk about sending their kids to private school. if you are sending your kid away from your local HS for lacrosse specific reasons, does it make sense to spend 20k a year or 75k a year . I would argue a private day school like Iona, Dom bosco, Fairfield Prep, etc provide more than enough lax exposure to get committed for lacrosse provided you are also on a competitive club team. everyone thinks that Taft, Wick, Loomis etc, is a golden ticket to d1 lacrosse. all of these schools sell this Instagram dream of lacrosse heaven. If you want to talk about alumni networks etc, then that is a different conversation and as stated you are paying an extra 200k over four years for that . But if you think your 9th or 10th grader is going to be happy standing on the sidelines freezing his tush off in the snow and rain, then by all means go ahead. Most recruited kids at boarding school are recruited as a result of club lacrosse with maybe a small nudge from their private school coach. I would 100% find out if the coaches of whatever school your looking at, have college coach relationships.