Advice please for a lacrosse recruit

fenwaysouth
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:35:13 +0000

kwalker - congrats on the offers. That is very exciting.

MaryOC, - Very interesting situation. So, it looks like the high school initiated these “stories” through a Blog or local media outlet (ESPN Boston in this case). The students must have agreed to the story as well as the colleges. I’m trying to think why the high school would be motivated to do such a thing besides honor their students and program. Do you think they are trying to draw more top lax players to move to their area to attend public school there? I know this is done at my son’s high school in football. The football team has won the district 14 times in a row and won states last year. They are a 4A school and beat a few 5A schools. on the way to winning the state title. They get some of the best kids in the area to move to their school district because of the coach and program. My two oldest son’s attended school their for (public) magnet school but not football. What do you think? Am I being too cynical and realistic? ;-)

starsky - I’m also familiar with a situation where a rising soph was offered a D1 baseball scholarship. It is a very flattering offer. However, it takes an equally mature, and intelligent young person to say “no thank you at this time in my life” or “can we talk in 6 months or 12 months?” (after I get my drivers license ;-)). The risk is all on the recruit, and I often wonder if the word “no” has left the English vocabulary.