Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Powderfinger
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
When do All County Players get chosen? Who determines the players and what criteria?


1- If your team did not make the playoffs, you will not have any All County players on it.. regardless of talent.

2- the level of your teams success determines how many "award" slots they will have


3- Your coach chooses whom within the team to award. Favorites > those who deserve it.



So why is favoritism allowed over talent, stats? A really good player can be overlooked by her coach because of playing favorites? Aren't there some general guidelines?


You lost me at stats. I think it's been argued here to death that at least half the time someone's stats are the result of running up the score against weaker teams. HS teams keep stats for goals and assists, and goalie stats. No one is tallying ground balls or caused turnovers. Can you see where I'm going here? Plenty of girls who do their job and do it well but don't get recognition. As far as I know, there are no guidelines. There's a lot of stats (and we all know their worth) and then there's who the coach values or likes. Color me jaded. I saw a girl get All County when she couldn't even do a thing with her non-dominant hand. She couldn't understand plays, would ask my kid to explain them to her and then not execute them. An athletic girl but not a stellar lacrosse player but the coach love, love, loved her.




Well that's why I'm curious. And that's why I think coaches from other teams need to give bids for opposing team's players. Big deal a player can get 20 goals etc in on weaker teams - what about the true quality of their play? What about the play makers that get those ground balls but whose "stats' may not show tremendous goals, what about GB Stats, Forced Turnovers, %DCW etc..... Let's recognize the true Athletes and not favorites....

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It is a nice recognition but selection is flawed. On any given year there are players at programs like Garden City and Manhasset who are not recognized. The problem is, that coaches are only given so many picks. there are players who are named All County who would not start on one of the teams loaded with talent. Some coaches will favor seniors others will simple favor a player for whatever reason. Some coaches will not pick a player because they do not like the player or the parent . If you are a really good athlete on an average team you will more than likely be recognized. If you are a really good player on a team with 10 or more really good players it is a crap shoot.

Not trying to diminish the award but every year there are some really good players who are not on the list.