<p>D, a junior, is (to my untrained eye) a competent but not spectacular high school lacrosse goalie who is interested (perhaps delusionally) in playing in college. I understand that the best course of action would be for her to participate in low level exposure camps this summer in the hope that someone will bite, but for reasons that are not relevant, that is not a plausible course of action. Can someone point me to some low level DIII programs that might be interested in such a player?</p>
<p>Her academic record is also good but not great--B+ average, taking hardest courses in humanities but standard courses in math science, projected SAT high 1200s/low 1300s because of relative weakness in math.</p>
<p>The NCAA'a website, NCAA</a> - National Collegiate Athletic Association, lists DIII schools that sponsor lacrosse. The site links to those school's websites. Without knowing more about academic or geographic interests, it would be hard to recommend particular schools, but schools that offer lacrosse run the gamut from MIT to Tristate University in Indiana. In Ohio, both Ohio Wesleyan and Wittenberg, for example, have lacrosse programs and would be good academic matches.</p>
<p>The ideal combination would be 1500-3000 student LAC, decent but not great academics and (I assume) weak lacrosse. My belief is that D is simply not good enough to play intercollegiately in an even moderately successful program. (I know that I must sound like the world's most critical sports dad, but having been down this road once on a different level, I realize that nothing is gained by exaggerating the extent of my child's ability).</p>
<p>Was at St. Olaf this weekend on a visit. Website doesn't list lacrosse as a sport but there must be a HUGE club because lots of girls were practicing. Maybe she might be interested in playing on club level at a good school???</p>
<p>Mary Washington in virginia-- I know a couple of people from my high school who were decent but not particularly great players who are playing for them. Its a relatively small school and seems to accept people with your D's stats. It is technically a university but has a LAC feel.</p>
<p>My hat is off to your D. My ice hockey goalie refuses to play goal for lax even though she could start for her boarding school team. She'd rather play forward on the JV. Of course, she isn't depending upon lax (or field hockey for that matter) to get her places.</p>
<p>I think you'll be surprised how hard it is for schools to get lax goalies. From what I have seen it is truly a punishing (plenty of welts) and thankless job.</p>
<p>My daughter has similar stats and interests. She is just a sophomore and things might change. Still, I think that the D3 commitment could work for her and enhance her college experience. I would be interested in hearing from other parents or students regarding D3 women’s lacrosse programs and coaches.</p>
<p>Take a look at Susquehanna in PA–strong in creative writing; has womens lacrosse but I do not think it is a power; beautiful campus; nurturing, friendly atmopsphere with very high 4 year graduation rate; she might get some good merit aid there.</p>
<p>There are a lot of really nice colleges that have DIII women’s lax. Do you have a specific geographic preference.
Some colleges on the Lax link you may want to explore include:
Keene State - NH
Elizabethtown - PA
York - PA
Bridgewater - Va
Elmira - NY
Colby Sawyer - NH
Washington & Jefferson - PA
Hood - MD
Is there any preference or non preference for Catholic colleges?
Eli</p>
<p>The lax power listing was very helpful and interesting - Many thanks HarrietMWelsch! I will also take a look at Susquehanna - thanks yabeyabe2. JustAMomOf4 - no preference for religious affiliation, but a more diverse school would probably be better for her than totally homogeneous just because her high school is quite diverse. Geographic diversity would be better than none at all.</p>
<p>Can’t believe I just stumbled upon this thread–D just said yesterday she may want to play D3 lax. She’s a junior and, of course, this is after we had an east coast school tour over her Feb break with no attention paid to lax at all! We’re on the west coast…thank you for the links. We’ll check them out. Also, D says she’s late to be looking into this. How does one approach it? A friend who’s son is looking at D3 for baseball said to email coaches of schools she might be interested to get the ball rolling. Any other thoughts? Oh, D has a 3.45 uw, just a smidge higher due to a few honors/APs. If the PSAT was a good indicator, may have 2000-2100 SAT but we’ll find out April 1!</p>
<p>Check out the Athletic Recruits Forum under College Admissions. Take a large cup of decaf coffee. Tremendous amount of information there if you can wade through some of the threads.</p>
<p>There are recruiting forms on just about all of the athletic pages of the D3 schools from the links. Start filling and sending to those schools where she might have interest. My experience with older son (swimmer, not lax player - soo much easier because a 50 yard pool is a 50 yard pool and coaches can judge performance based on times) was that having a coach pulling for you can help in admissions and perhaps a smidge in the aid department (no real proof but it seemed like it - the schools that wanted him as a swimmer gave better FA and merit aid). Also, don’t underestimate your child’s skills. So many kids who are hellbent on continuing their sport in college are focused on D1 & D2, leaving D3 schools to scramble for the next tier down for their athletes. Once those other kids are minused out, your son or daughter might start looking pretty good to some of these coaches, depending on their programs. For lacrosse, start shooting video and keeping meticulous stats.</p>
<p>I’m sure this must be obvious but how do I get to subforums within a forum? In other words, when I click on college admissions on the left side of the screen, I don’t see a list of subforums…help!</p>