Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Yes prior post was accurate. US Lacrosse changed the process a few years ago to reduce impact of politics. There is an AA committee but at the end of the day every coach in the county has 1 vote and they collectively decide who the 8 US Lax AA's are. The AA 2nd and 3rd team awards given last year which are not US Lacrosse related and should be called something else are picked by the committee and can be more influenced by politics.


Agree, that the 2nd and 3rd teams should be called something else... if we keep going at this rate every player will be an All-American. I think that their are 400 or 500 hundred US lacrosse All-Americans already.

If they (US Lacrosse) did in fact change it so that every coach in the county gets a vote I think that it is even worse than before... No way that the the HS coaches have a handle on all of the players. I guess they could always go by "stats"...

In the end it does not matter... the only lists that matter are the college coaches lists. Players get to see how they stack up on September 1 of their junior year.



US Lacrosse AA is a joke regardless. Baltimore doesn't even have a US lacrosse chapter so no Baltimore based players are named US Lacrosse AA. Who cares? Kids aren't being recruited based on this. The only real honor is making the UA Senior Team.


That is completely inaccurate. Baltimore and all of Maryland are included in the Mid-Atlantic Region. All 50 states are covered by 8 regions. Local chapters are irrelevant and for that matter, so are the regions when it comes to all-american selections. States and parts of states all have maximum number of all-americans allowed. Coaches submit nominations and all coaches in that state or part of the state vote. District of Columbia (DC, VA, MA) had 21, Maryland- Chesapeake had 10, Maryland- Eastern Shore had 2, Maryland- Howard County had 2, Maryland- Western had 4. Other parts of Virginia had 13. So yes, Baltimore is well represented on the all-american list. You can find the full 2019 list at the US Lacrosse site, players, high school, then 2019 high school girls awards programs.


Sorry, but you made my point for me. The Maryland-Chesapeake AA's are selected by the local Cheseapeake chapter. Every AA selected is from Southern MD. Same for the other Maryland Regions. if you look at the list you referenced on the US lacrosse website you will see that not a single AA is from a Baltimore IAAM School(McDonogh, NDP, St. Paul's, Roland Park, etc). Baltimore shut down their US Lacrosse Chapter and hence no longer have any US Lacrosse AA's.


Sorry, no I did not. I did the USL AA process as a coach last year (not in Md). US Lacrosse chapters and regions have nothing to do with voting on AAs. Please eliminate that from consideration. Now, each school is assigned to an area and all coaches within said area submit nominations and vote. So, you need to determine which area those schools are allocated to, ensure the coach contacts the coordinator for that area and submits the nominations by the deadline and then votes by the deadline. As for the schools you reference, you can go back and look at prior years and they had AAs. It is incumbent upon the coach to ensure they are on the distribution list for the area coordinator, submits timely nominations and then votes by the deadline. Any part of that not going properly can impact a player not getting consideration. It could be that simple. What is interesting is the boys from the DC/Maryland area have very different areas than the girls. That could be something you can push your coach to research and perhaps influence change.