<p>Amen to that!</p>
<p>Obama08 & Parlabane,</p>
<p>“best” = “best for their child” is absolutely the right tact. I’m sure that most parents try to do this. Although upon reading through some of the topics on this forum, mostly from the Type A 13 -15 year old kids you mentioned, I was beginning to question that premise. Thanks for the reassurance.</p>
<p>Sarum,</p>
<p>By and large you are absolutely correct. However, there are more and more players in D1 coming from Ohio, Colorado, Texas and California each year as lacrosse gains more popularity. For example, Richard Gelb was a High School All American at Cate School last year and now plays at Colgate - [Colgate</a> University Athletics - 2009 Men’s Lacrosse Roster](<a href=“http://www.gocolgateraiders.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=2169&path=mlax]Colgate”>Richard Gelb - Men's Lacrosse - Colgate University Athletics)</p>
<p>Here are a few other California school boys that signed with college lacrosse teams in 2008 and are currently freshmen. I’m sure there are girls too. This is only a partial list…</p>
<p>Parker Brown, Brown U
Alex Capretta. Princeton
Spencer Kaplan, Bucknell
Roy Lang, Cornell
Thomas Mattimore, Dartmouth
Laki Sotiropulos, Syracuse</p>
<p>CP</p>
<p>Exactly - the best school is the one that best fits the child. So what I don’t get is why certain adults come onto these threads seemingly just to bash kids who playfully argue about which school is best - is it really so hard to believe that some people who obsess over the HADES actually would fit best at one of those same schools? Come on, we’re kids. Did you old fogies above never jokingly argue about anything when you were in your early teens? Give us a break and go talk on an adult forum if you want every single post to be mature - as if written by adults.</p>
<p>Get it into your heads that this forum is frequented by 13-16 year olds. Go visit an XBOX 360 forum and maybe you’ll realize just how mature we are in comparison with average teens</p>
<p>xbox 360 forums? Just go look at your kid’s high school…</p>
<p>Exactly, PPV.</p>
<p>@TomTheCat: This is from my mom: well put.</p>
<p>Totally Tom,</p>
<p>We’re wicked mature for our age.</p>
<p>And will parents stop bashing me for saying something bad about their son’s/daughter’s school.</p>
<p>And yah, Exeter’s food was suckish. THey did have a soft serve ice cream thing though. But it only had vanilla, and I wanted chocolate or at least twist.</p>
<p>yeah i get mad when my parents call me immature. they should just sit in my science class (non-honors) and THEN we’ll see if they think I’M immature.</p>
<p>Stop bashing parents or I’m going to take your xbox 360 & Wii cables through the weekend!</p>
<p>CateParent - those figures you posted of California LAX players in D1 LAX in college are incredibly UNDERWHELMING! Is Gelb a walk-on? Where was C. Zak drafted? One of Cate’s best All American girl players ever? Where did Brodie Merrill or the Powell brothers go to HS school? Cal will improve hopefully as the years progress when the Cal coaches teach the same language of LAX that the east coast kids learn. Slashing for one. How hard is it to reteach a Cal player to stop one handed whacking on the non stick/ball arm of the guy with the ball? I have seen 10 games in California this year (Carmel Tournament) , they look like a bunch of Linebackers going at each other out there. Much of the problem is that the Referee’s for some reason don’t call the same penalties that I have seen on the East Coast teams. It makes it extra hard to retrain a California player from a D1 college coaches point of view. It is not for lack of athleticism that so few West coast boys and girls are playing on D1 teams, it has to do with coaching.</p>
<p>Dude, nobody like Wii. It’s lame. 360 or nothing. And PS3’s are lame too.</p>
<p>Wii is so much better. It is revolutionary and cheaper.</p>
<p>My boys have both or we would have too many in-house fights. I take the wires for both away if their behavior warrants. These games are not an entitlement in my house.</p>
<p>No videogames in our house, daughters never asked for them. I doubt they know what a 360 is. Most action on the tv screen is vegging out on What Not to Wear when she comes home from bs. Gender difference?</p>
<p>I’m entirely sure your daughters know what a 360 is. If not from playing it, it would be unavoidable not to hear boys raving about COD4 and Gears</p>
<p>Aaaaand the Wii is lame and certainly not revolutionary. It’s not even HD. SO what if you wave a little white thing around… It’s a motion sensor and those things have, you know, only been around since burglar alarms</p>
<p>COD4 and Halo3</p>
<p>Sarum,</p>
<p>My previous post wasn’t an attempt to overwhelm you, rather I was simply pointing out that it is indeed possible for West coast LAX players to make it to D1. Do they have the same volume of talent as the Northeast? No, and I wasn’t suggesting that.</p>
<p>I don’t know if Gelb is a scholarship athlete at Colgate or a walk-on. I’m not even certain if Colgate offers full rides for LAX players. Many D1 schools, including Ivies, do not. Nguyen was also an All American LAX player last year from Cate and is now playing at Middlebury. Regarding C. Zak, she is a mulitiple-year All-American and is still a student at Cate, not yet in college. In addition to those 3 kids, there were 5 Academic All-American LAX players from Cate in 2008. There are probably other schools with more All-American LAX players, but for a small school like Cate, it’s a notable accomplishment.</p>
<p>CP</p>
<p>…have a PS2, barely play it (except for karaoke. FUN!). dad wants a PS3 mostly for Blu-Ray and stuff. </p>
<p>lol I’ve vegged out in front of WN2W.</p>
<p>haha, i’m not big on video games…</p>
<p>Usually, if they make it to East Coast D1, West coast LAX players are not starters but walk ons. They practice with the team and that’s about it. There is some money for athletic scholarship in all D1 LAX schools (very few full rides as you call it), but if you are recruited for D1 LAX they can usually pay for books, tutoring etc. No Athletic scholarships in the Ivy’s but they make up for it with academic scholarships for a huge % of the student body… athletes included…but it’s called “academic scholarship” in the Ivys. Usually LAX programs are strapped for cash and can’t afford to send a scout back to the west coast.
Middlebury plays in the NESCAC which is DIII LAX. They are one of the best teams so the kid from Cate should have some fun. He will not be a shoe-in for a starting position even through his senior year however. They get a few kids that would play some on D1 teams.
I’d like to see C. Zak go to a good D1 LAX school by way of being recruited. It would show some Californians, myself included, that it is possible.</p>