Love watching lacrosse, but truthfully I can't hold up my end of a conversation on its strategies and techniques and traditions. How does a tiny public school like Glen Ridge HS beat an athletic magnet school like Don Bosco? I can't imagine it happening in basketball or football.
NJ high school lacrosse question
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Coaching and an ability to keep there kids. The coach at GR has been there a long time and the kids like him . He lives in the town and has been a vocal part of the youth program for years. This is how small schools are able to do this remember that Lakes and Summit are both small as well and they do a good job keeping kids. Don Bosco is still not the destination for lacrosse players though it is still Delby for lacrosse but the best lacrosse in NJ is still played in Somerset and Morris counties.
There is always the larger school, bigger population/higher likelihood of better athlete's thesis. For football it definitely makes sense when you see the line of a group 1 team versus a group 4 team. But as Sec120 said, in lacrosse the feeder programs are everything.
Its great to have a 6"0 200lb HS kid who can fly but he needs to skills to really excel.
Last week, Mtn Lakes played Cheery Creek (CO) and lost 10-8. I didn't watch the game so I can't comment, but realize that Mtn Lakes has about 600 kids, Cherry Creek has 4,000.
Its great to have a 6"0 200lb HS kid who can fly but he needs to skills to really excel.
Last week, Mtn Lakes played Cheery Creek (CO) and lost 10-8. I didn't watch the game so I can't comment, but realize that Mtn Lakes has about 600 kids, Cherry Creek has 4,000.
The problem out west was never the athletes. They grow on trees here.
It was always the coaching. I have been here coming up on 20 years, and the amount of east coast transplants has risen exponentially. Not just east coasters, but guys who played at a high level and know the game.
Western kids when they first started doting D1 teams always seemed like great athletes, but you could see their lacrosse IQ was far below that of a kid you would see from Baltimore or other hotbeds.
That has changed at a number of programs now. We are seeing kids from here who have now grown up playing lacrosse since they were 6 just like their east coast counterparts, and have also been coached by people that understand the game. The balance of power still resides in the east, but I firmly believe that will change someday in the not too distant future. The game is just exploding out here and amount of focus high schools put on sports teams is staggering. The overall level of competition isn't what it is back east, but it will be.
Some of those schools in Orange County have better facilities than some d1 lax teams. Once it became a CIF sanctioned sport, the gloves came off.
NJ and other hotbeds will always produce talent, and we need to harvest NJ and LI especially, but it is great that Coach Brecht has been able to land kids from out here, and not just kids, but kids who are performing. This is going to continue, as it should. Just too much talent to not keep pace.
It was always the coaching. I have been here coming up on 20 years, and the amount of east coast transplants has risen exponentially. Not just east coasters, but guys who played at a high level and know the game.
Western kids when they first started doting D1 teams always seemed like great athletes, but you could see their lacrosse IQ was far below that of a kid you would see from Baltimore or other hotbeds.
That has changed at a number of programs now. We are seeing kids from here who have now grown up playing lacrosse since they were 6 just like their east coast counterparts, and have also been coached by people that understand the game. The balance of power still resides in the east, but I firmly believe that will change someday in the not too distant future. The game is just exploding out here and amount of focus high schools put on sports teams is staggering. The overall level of competition isn't what it is back east, but it will be.
Some of those schools in Orange County have better facilities than some d1 lax teams. Once it became a CIF sanctioned sport, the gloves came off.
NJ and other hotbeds will always produce talent, and we need to harvest NJ and LI especially, but it is great that Coach Brecht has been able to land kids from out here, and not just kids, but kids who are performing. This is going to continue, as it should. Just too much talent to not keep pace.
There is a club/rec program down the Shore that started with the idea of someday one of the alumni of the program would be playing on Memorial Day. It has merged with another one (both started by two RU LAX alums) but the idea remains the same. And its feeder HS (along with the surrounding private ones) is getting better and better every year.
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The Summit game with Cheery Creek was cancelled after one of the refs had a medical emergency.
New interim Princeton head coach is an ex-Stevens Tech Ducks (Div-III) lacrosse coach.
http://planetprinceton.com/2016/04/06/princeton-university-mens-lacrosse-coach-ousted-over/
http://planetprinceton.com/2016/04/06/princeton-university-mens-lacrosse-coach-ousted-over/
For the masses, yes.
But I am sure some of us have seen kids even in high school who are new to lacrosse where you go, "Whoa! Where has this guy been hiding?"
I can attest to that as have been coaching in our towns youth program for the past 4 years and have seen players from the pop warner program that were bored playing LL baseball switch and have been better than others who have been in our lax program since day1
My oldest son started in 8th grade. Made varsity freshman year and all conference later on. If you are a good athlete and have hand eye coordination you really can pick it up fast.
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