Is Washington Boys HS Lacrosse ready for sanctioning?:

Title IX- there are as many if not more girls' lacrosse clubs than there are boys'. Title IX should be the least of our worries.

Schools are reluctant to adopt lacrosse because it means another 40-60 players they now have to insure and provide facilities for. It is cheaper for a school to provide fields to a club team who pays near $140/hour for a lighted a field than to actually have a school sanctioned team on the field who pays nothing. With finite resources. Simple economics. Something to be considered, you know the ADs are looking at the bottom line.

What about school sizes? Not every program associated with a HS can compete. There are 4A schools in what is now D-II and 3A or 2A schools in D-I. Many programs are in areas with multiple HS and not associated with any one HS (Lynnwood, Northshore, Snohomish, Mukilteo come to mind): will WIAA recognize local boards as well as school AD's?

What we can do now as a state is line up all the clubs with their local high schools name, mascot, and colors, even if a specific program can't become a "school club." Examples of school clubs are the Catholic schools (Blanchet, Seattle Prep, etc). Examples of clubs technically not affiliated with their local high school but still using the colors and mascot are Stanwood (Stanwood H.S. Spartans - red and black, and Snohomish (Snohomish H.S. Panthers - red and white). Those are just to name two or three of each; I would estimate a slight majority of the state shares their primary high school affiliation's name, colors, and mascot. More teams have been moving in that direction such as Muk changing to from Mojo to Knights and red to purple a couple years ago to go along with Kamiak. Almost half, however, are still not lined up with their local high school. Even a new team was created but not affiliated with any high school (Skagit Valley). What we need is a good attempt for teams like Tacoma, North County, Whatcom, and San Juan to become Bellarmine Prep, Lynden, Bellingham, and Friday Harbor, respectively. Again, that is just naming a few off the top of my head... this whole lining up schools is just my take on the best way to become part of the WIAA. It would make lacrosse look a lot more legit, and show that we are already ready to roll and it would be an easy transition because most of the teams are already aligned with their local high school. Besides, players already have to play on teams based upon their residence/school/school district, much like high school sports that are a part of the WIAA...