<p>You said there were only lacrosse teams in 23 states when there are high school teams in at least 45, and that only a few preppy east coast schools have teams. That’s wrong. You also implied that there was no high school play in Texas and Florida because they aren’t on your list, and I know that’s wrong since my daughter plays on her Florida high school team and there are hundreds of school teams, boys and girls, varsity and jv. There are huge tournaments at Disney throughout the year, and they come from many states. There is plenty of lacrosse in Florida. The UF woman’s team is in the top 10.</p>
<p>Don’t blame it on Title IX. Other sports add women’s teams or a similar sport for women. Why don’t they add women’s wrestling teams? Oh right, women don’t like wrestling. I don’t care if colleges have wrestling teams, so why do you care that they have lacrosse teams? </p>
<p>Also, how many of those who wrestle in high school also participate in another sport like football? Wrestling may not be their main sport but just a ‘winter filler’ sport like it was for my brothers. In my high school, all the wrestler played football too (except, of course, for the little skinny ones as they are too small to even be lax players), so if they went to college, it was with a scholarship in another sport. One of my brothers played college football, one lacrosse, but both would have been counted in your wrestling numbers as high school participants.</p>