DIII Women's Lacrosse

<p>click on college admissions and then at the top of the page it lists the subforums. There’s a wealth of info over there. It’s heavy with discussion about Ivies and DI sports, but there’s a good sampling of DIII discussion too. </p>

<p>Junior year is not too late, but I recommend taking some film of your girls during this season. My D plays soccer. She couldn’t do the summer camps after junior year, so she sent a highlights reel, athletic resume and letter to a bunch of DIII coaches. Got a great response and ended up going ED to her top pick. Thus debunking the myth that a coach has to see you play in person :)</p>

<p>EMM1 - I know a goalie at Guilford. She’s a very good player for our part of the country, but is not one of those lifelong LAX players. Definitely was still developing as a senior. She chose the college because she loved it for many reasons, but apparently is very happy with the LAX program too.</p>

<p>Try the website for the MCLA. Most of the colleges listed there will also have women’s lacrosse teams. Also, I second the idea of club lacrosse.</p>

<p>As a current D3 Womens lacrosse goalie who was recruited for lax, you daughter if she does not come from a big high school lax program, she needs to do some sort of summer recruitment camp. Elite 180 at Keene State would be a good place to start. If she does not want to attend a camp, start emailing coaches now! The earlier the better, especially for goalie.
Coaches want to get their goalie recruits set up early because they do not want to be left scrambling at the end trying to find one. </p>

<p>The key to finding the right school/team is an overnight visit with the team. I stayed overnight at my top 4 schools and it definitely helped to choose the right place for me. You will probs meet with the coach, go to a team dinner, stay with a girl on the team for the night, then meet with the coach for a few mins in the morning then go home. </p>

<p>Also watching a game of the schools you are interested in is important especially if she is unsure of her skill level. She should be able to tell from watching a game if she has a fighting chance to do well.</p>

<p>Thank you so much to everyone–D spoke with her coach who suggested she email the coaches of the schools she’s interested in. She did so last night and already got a response from one. Honestly, I have no idea how all of this will or won’t work out but at least we understand a little more about the process. Oh, also, she’s not a goalie–low attack. Good luck to others who would like to play in college!</p>

<p>I have been looking into Div III for crew (and my daughter sculls, so she is not currently on a team).</p>

<p>My understanding of the Div III recruiting rules is that coaches cannot directly contact players during their junior year of high school. But they can respond to inquiries from students as well as speak to them on campus if the student makes a visit on his/her own.</p>

<p>So it’s important to take the initiative now.</p>

<p>My daughter has sent e-mails directly to coaches at five schools and has gotten prompt responses from all of them. At three of the schools, she e-mailed a coach prior to a planned campus visit. In each case the coach met with my daughter and arranged for a current team member to show her around.</p>

<p>I STRONGLY suggest taking this conversation over to the Athletic Recruiting forum on CC - there is a wealth of information over there, and lots of active and experienced readers with so much great advice…good luck with it all!</p>

<p>Daughter (rising junior) is playing in a lacrosse tournament this weekend that is billed as a destination for women’s lacrosse coaches as they search for recruits. They don’t list the coaches that will be there anywhere, but if it is true that coaches can’t contact juniors, how do we figure out who will be there so we can initiate an inquiry? Does anyone have a list of D1, D2, or D3 womens lacrosse coaches who actively recruit at the tournaments?</p>

<p>sapmich-</p>

<p>if your daughter is an incoming junior then coaches, unless she is a top d1 recruit, wont even be watching her games. they will be focused on the incoming seniors and securing their 2015 recruiting class</p>

<p>if you go to the tournament website there will most likely be a listing of the coaches that have said they will attend. this may not be easy to find because many coaches do not want it to be known they are at a tournament for fear of being hassled by parents.</p>

<p>it is more important to first contact the coaches of the schools you are interested in and tell them you will be at this tournament, rather than looking at who is there and then contacting them. </p>

<p>but this all should have happened at least a month before the tournament, not a week before.</p>

<p>Good info. I am glad I am asking now when she is a junior so I will know better for next summer when they are actually looking. </p>

<p>Headlinenewsrox, how do you come by your experience in this area? I would be interested to hear more about your experiences or anyone else’s with women’s college lacrosse or other winter or spring sports because the timeline can be tough since college choices are done by the time they get to their senior year season. I am especially interested in hearing anyone’s DIII experiences because there is so little info out there. Timeline for DI and II would also be helpful because there are a couple daughter is interested in, but I think the DIII would be more conducive to her academic life.</p>