<p>Junior right now, it's our first year lacrosse is offered as a sport- as a JV team however. I play for a fall elite club team and will be playing for a summer team this summer. I play for my mother country's (parents are immigrants) national team at the men's level. 6'3 195 lb defense.</p>
<p>Basically, what can I do to get my self out there for college coaches to see?</p>
<p>Should I be emailing coaches?</p>
<p>Looking to play in a large D3 school northeast or for a lower tier D1 school.</p>
<p>MCLA is also definately possible. </p>
<p>I am not as knowlegable about men’s lax vs. women’s, but here’s what I would do:</p>
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<li>Get a specific list of schools you are interested in together. It is not too late for D3 but it is kind of late for D1, depending on the school and your level of ability.</li>
<li>Go to laxpower.com and check to see what the situation is for your target schools. Most schools add 3-6 recruited players per year, so if your school has that many or more it will be tougher.</li>
<li>Get a good highlight video and start emailing coaches. You need a video to be in the mix. You can leverage your club coach and potentially your national coach to make calls for you as they can talk to D1 coaches directly. D3 you can do yourself as there are no contact restrictions, IIRC.</li>
<li>If you are going to Fall tournaments, figure out which coaches are going to be there and make sure you reach out to them ASAP with your schedule. </li>
<li>Work hard and get good grades. That is the biggest factor that will get you looked at. </li>
<li>You can consider a recruiting service but that depends on your budget. Many are flat rate and since you don’t have much runway it might not be justifiable, but that depends on how much work you can/want to do. </li>
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<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Honestly, I think you have no chance for any D1 ranked program. Schools like Hopkins, Maryland, Denver, Syracuse are looking at freshmen on varsity (high school) teams and are full for the program by committed sophomores. It is ridiculous how early they are committing. Don’t count on having anyone look at a JV high school team-it will not happen. If your club team is good, talk to your coaches. You can fill out the forms on the college team page for recruits and submit film or tell them where they can view your film (many tournaments now film every game and you can just point the coaches to your playing time with the games, a description of you (‘tall, #6, with a long stick’).</p>
<p>I think you need to realize that you are going against kids who have been playing at a very high level for 10+ years. Lacrosse skills, like baseball, take years to develop. You need to have someone evaluate your play and point you in the right direction. Maybe a D2 school in the Midwest or south is better for you. If your mother’s country is Canada and you’re on that team, you’re a star. If the team is from a country where lacrosse is new, that won’t help you get into a New England school. </p>
<p>Girls are a little different, but not much. My daughter didn’t want to play in college, and then decided late in her junior year that she did. She had some D1 offers, but they were from small schools ranked at the bottom of the D1 list. ALL the top 50 schools had completed their recruiting by spring of her junior year, most by sophomore year… Sure, if she were some superstar they would have found room, but if she was a superstar they would have known about her. A few kids commit but then decide to go elsewhere, which opens up a spot, but that’s rare. She got very lucky and found the perfect school that was just starting a program. She’ll start, she got a nice scholarship that she might not have at a school with 40 kids on the squad (they only have 18) and it worked out. BUT, it’s a new program. She’ll lose a lot of games. She was offered a spot at a New England ‘name’ school, but it wasn’t right for her. She also got a lot of interest from D3 schools because she is a good student and a good player, but she didn’t want an LAC.</p>
<p>It also makes a difference if you are in the New England area playing high school or club. More likely you’ll be seen by those coaches if you are playing the NE or mid-atlantic tournament. We are in the south and most of her early offers came from schools in the south. Girls play some club tournaments in Virginia and after those tournaments there was more interest from NE and the Midwest. I’m not trying to discourage you from trying, but don’t miss an opportunity at a school where you could be a player waiting for those NE elites to call you, as I just don’t think it will happen… The competition is fierce. Get an evaluation of what level you should be aiming for. Lots of good schools out there.</p>
<p>@two: The OP said “lower tier D1 school”. I agree about the schools you named but they are not lower-tier. I think the story could be different at a Furman or Monmouth. I would be more concerned about identifying “large D3 schools in the northeast” as most D3s will be LACs and not large by usual standards.</p>
<p>Just to provide some facts, Jacksonville has 2 2016 commits on Laxpower; Hartford has 4; Manhattan 1; Marist 2. So there are some 2016 spots still open, but you can’t pick and choose. </p>
<p>WRT to JV HS team, if this is the first year then I think it’s hard for coaches to hold it too much against you and club is where a lot of the action is anyway. Don’t worry about HS film and focus on getting expsoure through your club. </p>
<p>I know a lot of kids who have committed who are not yet listed on laxpower, even 2015 kids. Some schools just don’t post them until the NLI’s are signed. My daughter’s school did not/does not post until the NLI is signed (of course, the student or club can post the commitment too).</p>
<p>OP seems committed but unsure of how things work. I’m just pointing out that he’s very late to the game, and maybe too late for many schools. If his club team is good and he’s been at tourneys, he should have received some interest by now from those D1 schools you listed. The junior and senior boys I know may not have committed (most have), but have a smaller group of schools they are looking at, and in a range of similar level schools. Maryland or Virginia? Air Force or Delaware? They aren’t comparing Jacksonville to Princeton or even Williams. And the aren’t playing on a JV high school team (not OP’s fault that he doesn’t have the same opportunities as others on really outstanding high school teams, just a reality).</p>
<p>I don’t want OP to fixate on a D1 or a high level (lacrosse wise) D3 when a different school at a D2 or lower D3 in the south or west may be the right lacrosse fit for him. OP may be a very high sat student who can get into a New England LAC and walk on for the lax team, but he’s still going to find a lot of very talented lax players on those teams and may not get the lax experience he’s looking for.</p>
<p>But yes, he should be emailing and getting film and plotting out a visitation schedule for next spring and summer, letting coaches know when and where he’ll be playing or visiting their schools.</p>
<p>Fair enough. Without some more information about the OP’s academics, club, fall schedule, etc., it’s hard to say beyond the generic advice already given. I think anything is possible given the right story on all of the above, but it will take a ton of work with no assurance of success and will need to fully in-motion by the end of this October to get into the live coaching evaulation window for November. </p>