Yes, middle school. Do certain club players gravitate to certain schools? Around the DC area it's a mixed bag with BLC, NL and ML going to pretty much all the schools in roughly equal percentages (Landon, Mater Dei, STA, etc...).
Yes Hawks -> SMA, some to Spalding
FCA -> Calvert Hall
Crabs -> BL
MadLax -> Juvi
Not really as sure about the DC schools but know a bunch of Hawks kids played for St. John’s last year.
There are obviously kids all over the place but those are generally where they go.
Im not from the DMV area. Just out of curiosity, what percentage of the kids attending these schools get scholarships based on lax and what % of the tuition is covered? Or does everyone pay full boat unless they qualify for financial aid or academic scholarship.
It's intentionally shrouded in mystery (my 2028 gets financial aid).
At the middle school level there is generally no "sports specific" aid. There is a small amount of merit aid, and potentially generous need based financial aid, but that said, the schools generally expect parents to pay a minimum of 10% of their household pre-tax income to tuition. So if mom and dad make $250K combined, they may not pay $40K for Johnny Lax's tuition, but they probably pay $25K-35K.
At high school, the average kid on varsity lax gets somewhere in the neighborhood of $0 to $3K sports scholarships. HS tuition ranges from $15K to almost $40K. Very, very few kids get big lax scholarships before 11th grade. However since most lax kids are decent students, it's not uncommon for them to have other types of financial aid as well.
