Lacrosse Recruiting - Too Late for Ivy League?

4:30 for Princeton; 4:25 for Cornell. Regardless, they are the exceptions (and there may be others), but not the rule. At other D1 schools, it may be possible for the student-athlete may be able to work out a schedule that accomodates a post-4:00 class, but there is generally no set policy.

The athlete has to make choices. If practice starts at 4, don’t take classes later than 3. Athletes usually get to register first, so there are plenty of classes to pick from. Bigger schools? More sections of each class.

It really isn’t a big issue. D’s in her 8th semester and it’s the first time she’s missed practice for a required class. The coach will get over it.

Arriving to this thread late, but will add my perspectives.

Ivy lax recruiting is very competitive. The suggestion to check Laxpower is right on. If the school already has 6-8 2019 commits they are full and I would surmise the coach is using your D as a backup in case one of the other recruits fall through. It does happen; there were Ivies looking at 2018s during Presidents Cup in 2016.

However, I really don’t see the point of applying to an Ivy ED without support when you can get that support elsewhere. The odds are very long vs the sure thing you get from being recruited. I wouldn’t go near any situation where there is no explicit support.

What people are nicely saying above is that since you are from a not-bed and don’t play club, it is a challenging situation as Ivies have their pick of girls from hotbeds who play for top clubs. Coaches may not be telling you that but it is the reality.

Has your D been all-State or AA in HS?

Many coaches will recruit for athleticism, thinking they can teach you the skills. But that means no playing time until the skills are there, possibly not being able to play in your chosen position, and possibly not even traveling with the team.

My suspicion is that since your D plays basketball, she is a tall athlete. She will be slotted in as a defender where the bar on stick skills and game IQ is lower. If that is what she wants then by all means try to work a commitment for support from the coach.

ETA: Have you calculated her AI yet?

I looked at the Laxpower recruits list for the 2019 Ivies. Most have only 5-6 listed, but this year is weird because of the new recruiting rules. I think they each have more but just haven’t posted them yet. For 2018 most of the Ivies had 8-10 recruits.

What was noticeable about the ones that are listed is they are all from the northeast or mid-atlantic states. I think there was one kid from CA. Not one for each school, just one for all all the Ivies.

It’s a cruel world.

Another suggestion: Google the recruits listed on Laxpower and see if you can find their highlight videos on Hudl or YouTube. Watch them with your D and make a realistic assement of her capabilities against theirs.

There is a wide range of abilities in lax. Playing on the house team in the open pool at Presidents Cup is a long way away from playing for M&D in the top grad year pool. If your D is playing on or against teams with lots of girls wearing green armbands and doing well that is a very good sign.

^^My daughter’s year the ‘committed’ armbands were pink.

@twoinanddone, good one! Green for 2018. Not sure what color for 2019 but you need to see them to know you are playing in pools where the girls are getting recruited.

@BobcatPhoenix Thanks for adding your perspective. You’re correct that my D is a defender though she is not very tall (5’7"). She is fast, strong, and has the stick skills to sub into the midfield line but she loves shutting down attackers. She hasn’t taken the SAT II yet, but I estimate her AI at 226.

Armband colors for 2019 class is the same green. Walk-ons are pretty rare at the Ivy level - one coach told us she only took 1 walk-on in the past 10 years and that was only because the player was a blue chip but from an isolated area where she was never seen (and would have been easily recruited had she had more exposure).

@mountainsoul What is more important to your daughter – going to Ivy League or playing Lax in college? Since she isn’t a top recruit, she could try getting "support"from an Ivy Coach (not an official recruit, but calling attention to her application) and try for a walk on position knowing she isn’t going to get the field time of other girls. You and the coach have to know the stats for this route – could she get in on her own? Take an honest look at her transcripts and test scores when available and compare to the data. A girl from my daughter’s school was in the same exact position as your daughter and landed a choice Ivy by just getting support from the Lax coach – but she had the grades, test scores, and athletic potential.

where is @Ohiodad51 to tell people there’s no such thing as committing to the process to an Ivy in 9th grade? He wouldn’t believe me when I said 9th/10th grade is peak women’s soccer committment…

There is no such thing as committing to the process for girls lacrosse in 9th or 10th grade. Ivy League coaches, which are in D1, are forbidden to contact students until September 1 of junior year. Many girls commit to the process in the fall of junior year but the days of girls committing before then are gone. This current senior class is the last one where you had early commitments and many of those top players did commit in 9th. I’m glad it’s over!

It’s been a year since I posted this query and a lot has happened since then. D19 will not be playing college lacrosse. To answer your question @fencingmom, playing college lacrosse is important to D19 but her education has always been the priority. She had an amazing junior year (all conference, etc) and had been in frequent contact with a few schools. She expected an offer from her top choice, a NESCAC school in CT, but at the end of July she was told she fell just outside their top prospects and would not be supported through admissions. Her second choice NESCAC school said the same. Of course, she was welcome to tryout should she be admitted but that was little consolation. There were a lot of tears. Another academically strong D3 school assured her she had a roster spot but could offer no admissions support. We reviewed her college list and she decided to apply ED to the ivy she loved at first visit and, if rejected, she would apply to the D3 school. She was admitted ED to the ivy and will attend this fall. Good luck to everyone still going through the recruiting process with your kiddos! It’s a wild ride but it can be a wonderful family adventure if you relax and have fun with it.

Congrats @mountainsol, but to everyone else, let’s not revive old dead threads.