@xyz123a
Ok, DS20 is a swimmer so it moves ahead (again) for us. Thanks for the clarification.
This camp may be of interest:
https://www.elite180lax.com/girls-recruiting-camp/girls-recruiting-camp-registration/
More background: Elite 180 was (is?) the best camp for women looking to play lacrosse at highly-competitive colleges.
According to the camp website, these coaches will be there:
Middlebury: Kate Livesay & Katie Ritter
Amherst: Chris Paradis & Paige Moriarty
Williams: Alice Lee & Lauren Mazza
Wesleyan: Kim Williams & Emily Knapp
Bates: Brett Allen
Colby: Karen Henning
Bowdoin: Liz Grote
Conn College: Lisa Vogeley
Hamilton: Patty Kloidt
Tufts: Courtney Shute
Trinity: Katy Dissinger
Babson: Michelle Smith
MIT: Anne Versprille
Vassar: Jude Finerghty
Union: Abi Jackson
Washington & Lee: Brooke O’Brien
Skidmore: Elizabeth Ghilardi
Swarthmore: Karen Borbee
Haverford: Katie Zichelli
UChicago: Kate Robinson
Mt Holyoke: Liz Kemp
Wheaton: Emily Kiablick
My son attended the “Boys version” of Elite 180 and enjoyed it.
The recruiting rules are set by sport, not by the NCAA unless the sport defaults to NCAA guidelines. Lax tried for years to change the early recruiting atmosphere but finally went with Sept 1 of Junior year. Now that the NCAA’s guidelines are June 15, I bet lax reconsiders. Jule 15 makes so much more sense because then the coaches have the summer tournaments to make contact. Then again, they may not care that much about those 3 months.
D3 doesn’t have to comply, but they pretty much do. When daughter went on D3 overnight, they followed the rules of only allowing 48 hours on campus and a few other things that they really didn’t have to. Some players know they are going D3 and never look at D1, but most of the top players are still looking at all the programs (Yale or Gettysburg? Maryland or Middlebury?) so those D3 coaches are waiting just like the next tier of D1 coaches for the big names to make their decisions - after Sept 1 of junior year.
My daughter was very late in recruiting, and she was before the rule change so many of her friends had committed as sophomores. There were still plenty of teams looking for rising seniors and looking all the way through the spring of senior year. They just weren’t the top teams in any division.
It might be late for Elite 180 since it starts on Tuesday. My daughter is a ‘21 and is attending and has been communicating with coaches who will be there.
Lots of top programs will be there and I’ve heard good things. Some schools are still looking at ‘20’s but many have started to speak with ‘21’s too.
I interpret “she has the grades to get into any of these schools” to simply mean that she fits the academic profile, not that it’s a safety by any means. I’m sure the OP knows that NESCAC schools are difficult admits, even with academic success.