<p>Thanks for your responses, everyone. Mary, that is a good question but since he has not yet hit puberty and has years of growth ahead of him, it is hard to tell how big he will ultimately be (he shouldn’t be too small based on our family) and what level of college lax is realistic. His coaches have told him to just keep working on his fundamentals so that when he catches up physically, he should be a real force. I think this is good advice but still makes it hard to figure out how to navigate the world of insanely accelerated lax recruiting where young players are bypassing skills camps and are going directly to recruiting showcases. We are sure he will end up somewhere appropriate (whether DI or DIII) but we were just wondering if anyone else has had a late-blooming child in one one of the accelerated-recruiting sports and could share their experience (I haven’t noticed a lot of laxers/lax parents on the CC boards). I think the accelerated recruiting in certain sports is a real problem these days (on so many levels) and it does seem to limit some (not all, of course) opportunities for late-bloomers who aren’t really ready to show their stuff in the early HS years.</p>