<p>My son plays defense for his lacrosse team in the Northeast. He is a 14 year old freshman that is 6' 6" and 210 lbs.</p>
<p>He is a top athlete who also plays football and basketball, but my concern is that I have not done a good job of getting him noticed by the top D1 colleges. From my reading here it seems that this summer is when things start to heat up.</p>
<p>Is there anything I can do now to ensure that he gets the same exposure and opportunities to compete for spots on some of these top D1 teams?</p>
<p>Have you looked into travel lacrosse teams locally, regionally, nationally? Those are the teams that will be going to showcases that attact college coaches. Whether those college coaches are the ones you seek will depend on the team and their exposure strategy. It will most likely also depend on how much money you spend on the travel team. </p>
<p>My two cents…Your son is already playing football and basketball. What sport(s) does he want to play in college? Is the incremental cost for travel lacrosee worth the investment? Could those family dollars be used for football or basketball exposure? Football and basketball are revenue sports for almost all schools. Lacrosse is a revenue sport for a few schools. Football and basketball ave the most mens scholarships available. I’m not telling you what to do, but hopefully giving yoe something to think about.</p>
<p>6’6" and 210 as a HS Freshman gets noticed wherever he goes. Seriously, though. Fenway is on the money. There is no upward limit on what one could spend on teams, showcases, camps etc. Once he decides what he wants to play, and you concentrate your resources, he will be noticed. If lax is his game, there are camps and showcases all summer with all of the coaches. A quick internet search will lead you to them. Also, talk to other parents who have been through it before. I pick Fenway’s brain whenever I can. you can’t teach size!</p>
<p>Lacrosse does seem to be his favorite sport, but I would also like to get the most athletic scholarship money as possible (if possible).</p>
<p>For the schools that are able to generate revenues from lacrosse; are they able to pay more money out in scholarships than other schools or is this all regulated by the NCAA?</p>
<p>It sounds as though D1 athletic scholarships for lacrosee are not very large.</p>
<p>You do need to look at what schools have athletic scholarhsips for lacrosse and how large they are. Most of the kids I know who were recruited for lacrosse did not get money, just extra consideration as an athletic recruit to get into a more selective school than academic stats would likely get them. If it’s the money you want, you need to know where to go for it. You should then call he coaches of those schools that interest you and ask them what they recommend in terms of camps and “showcases”. They will tell you.</p>
<p>The same with the other sports. Sports have different rules as to how money is used and schools do too. Football is usually a cash cow and has exceptions to general rules. Some schools have partials and some have fulls for given sports.</p>
<p>Yeah, LAX is an ‘equivalency’ sport - fully funded D1 programs have 12.6 scholarships to divvy up for the entire team, so partials are the rule. </p>
<p>Football and Basketball tend to be full scholarships. </p>
<p>Depending on his grades and your finances, need-based awards can be pretty generous in the Ivy League and top DIIIs.</p>
<p>Well a 6’6 freshman if he is athletic will be good if he works on sticks skills (my downfall). I would say that he should focus on school since he’s in 3 sports and then in the summer since you are already in the northeast (+) you show get accepted to showcases where you’ll know that the coaches that will be there will be from the colleges he might want to attend. However to get invited to these showcases you must have a coach (travel or school-related) vouch for him so it’s very important he gets into a good relationship with his coaches. I would suggest a travel team if you can afford it</p>
<p>For many athletes in equivalency sports such as lacrosse the athletic scholarship on average will be 20% or less of the cost of attendance. For many colleges academic or merit based scholarships can be much greater than the athletic scholarships for equivalency sports. D1 football scholarships are almost always full scholarships. The colleges that have the greatest revenue from football tend to have the best athletic scholarship funding for equivalency sports. The Military academies may be a good alternative- 100% scholarships and guaranteed employment when you graduate.</p>
<p>IMHO as a parent it is better to look at your son’s situation and know he is happy doing whatever sports interest him today but know that he may have an opportunity to play a sport he loves in college. Because if he doesn’t love the sport in college it can be a real grind, and will take away from other parts of college life. He will either drop the sport or transfer. It happens all the time. To say college sports are a huge committment is a fantastic understatement.</p>
<p>Truthfully, don’t worry about the financial stuff right now. Learn and research college atheltic recruiting for the sport and schools he is most interested in. During your research and future recruiting you will be looking at things in terms of academic, athletic and financial. There will be plenty of time in the future to worry about the financial.</p>
<p>My S1 plays on an NCAA lax team. He was a recruited athlete. Scholarships for lax are always partial. Yes, he has one, nice but the lax scholarship is relatively small. The big money came as an academic scholarship. My advice is to be sure your S understands that his grades are paramount. A hot prospect with excellent grades is worth the most to a coach, especially if the school is selective. Go to some top LAX camps this summer and next, sure. That is what our S did. However, he ended up signing with a coach who heard about him via one of our S’s high school coaches, not a camp.</p>
<p>Does anyone know a list of some of the top D1 lacrosse schools that are NOT very selective based on grades and SAT scores?</p>
<p>My son is a good student, but not a great one and he didn’t score well on the SSAT when we were considering private school.</p>
<p>I assume Duke and Johns Hopkins are out of the question, but wanted to know what schools didn’t have adademic standards that were as high as these schools.</p>
<p>He needs to play club. Club teams attend tournaments and he can then let the coaches know what tournaments he will be attending. </p>
<p>Varska is correct about LAX. teams carry so many players, chop the scholarships up amongst so many of them that many basically end up going to school for such little LAX money that it reasonably can’t even be considered a scholarship. A 6’6 player, however may get a much larger piece of that pie if he’s that good.</p>
<p>Basketball and Football “MUST” be full rides at DI as I understand it (Ivys excluded). And they are the only two sports that have this mandate. This isn’t to say that the coach of another sport “won’t” give one of his/her scholarships to a particular athlete while chopping up the rest, but in basketball and football I believe they must, and that makes the coaches choices of who they’re gonna “spend” this on a much more cautionary measure and makes the competition to gain one in these sports all the more difficult.</p>
<p>Edit: Johns hopkins is DIII and there’s no way around those grades, and there’s no athletic money. Duke is so tough to get into that the hook of being a 6’6 gifted athlete may very well do the trick when other brilliant kids are turned away. I saw this happen (personal knowledge) from friends: Brilliant kid, good athlete, president of everything, denied admission at duke. the other, solid student but great lacrosse player, admitted.</p>
<p>Hopkins is D1 lax, D3 in most else. Laxpower, inside lacrosse, uslacrosse all probably have lists of the schools by division and it’s not too hard to know which ones are less academically stringent than the others.</p>
<p>I believe the D1 coaches can not proactively contact a freshmen … however coaches/schools can respond to contacts from players … so your son can contact any schools in which he is interested.</p>
<p>Marshack - I suggest you take a look at the lacrosse recruiting questionnaires for a few schools. Most ask you about the lacrosse camps and tournaments that you attended and have them listed for you to check which ones you attended. This list is a good place to start. If I were in your place I would use the list to plan S’s activities for the next three summers. (This assumes, of course, that you and S are “all in” on playing lax in college.)</p>