That kid from Wissahickon is incredible. Radnor is still the top team then Deast, Dwest, maybe Spring Ford and Springfield but Wissahickon is stepping up to that second tier.[/quote]
Downingtown east has 40 players on their team both JV and Varsity. Don’t bring up the school population game to make Rustin look better.[/quote]
uote=Anonymous]Downingtown has 866 boys who attend the school according to the PIAA while Rustin has 466. So you are telling me that having another 400 boys who can potentially play lacrosse is not an advantage when you are putting together your 40 man roster?
The point is yes they have 400 more boys, but none of them play lacrosse so it doesn’t matter. Those extra 400 boys does nothing for them since they barely have anyone even playing lacrosse at east. East struggles to field a JV team, begging kids to play the sport practically. When Rustin on the other hand yes has less boys at their disposal hypothetically, but has a bigger team. Maybe east should start complaining that they have a 40 person team vs radnors 70 person team and that it’s not fair. Think about it logically, East has zero advantage over Rustin because of population don’t try and play that game.[/quote]
the issue is the make up of the kids....due to STEM DEast has a large base of kids that have zero desire to play any American sports[/quote]
Go on.......[/quote]
Hold on....Downingtown East and West have successful feeder programs at the rec level and very good middle school teams. Don't act like they can't get kids. They have a clear advantage over the smaller schools like Rustin, Henderson, WC East, and Shanahan.[/quote]
West had 80 plus try out
East has 1/2 that number…
Tennis and cricket #’s are thru the roof at East[/quote]
Correct- East had about 40 kids go out for high school lacrosse. Lionville which feeds East had less than 25 kids go out for the team, that’s 7th and 8th combined.[/quote]
Just a little budget would go a long way. For West or East. Admins give just twenty or thirty k for middle school and there would be state titles back. With contracts at that level and great pride in programs it is back to the old days with a few years.
