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Submitted by GHSlax1 on Fri, 2006-06-30 07:06.
It is important for all coaches, players and parents to read the board minutes. For example, the latest board minutes DOE NOT ALLOW players who don't make a team to go play on another team. I thought LaCrosse was for the kids. Let them play if they can find another team to play for. It would be simple to make sure no one abuses the system. The cutting coach would issue a form stating that this kid has been cut, thus making him eligible to make a team somewhere else.
Other side
The league's point is that if you have a problem with having too many kids on your club team and that you have to cut, than maybe you should be SPLITTING that program so that all the kids may have the option. I agree that we shouldn't turn kids away, but that is how you can get more kids to play by offering another team. I think people have to remember that the board isn't going to do anything to hurt the game of lacrosse on purpose, they are not going to make up rules for poops and giggles, they have a job to do, I am sure they take pride in it, i would too. They ultimately want lacrosse to be successful and sometimes certain rulings may be a set back, but overall, lacrosse in washington is just going through some major growing pains, and if everyone can try to stay positive, these growing pains may not be so painful.
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If you cant make your high school's team, you definitely shouldn't be allowed to play for someone else. Not only would that never fly in any state sanctioned sport, it would bog down other teams with unskilled outside players.
Also, one should have to play for the team that he attends for school. If you go to lakeside and live on mercer island, you should have to play for lakeside. Thats how the WIAA would handle it.
Good point, but in many
Good point, but in many instances, Lacrosse is a Club Sport. Let's take Bellevue for an example. Four schools feed into the Bellevue program. The website has stated that Bellevue High School students will receive priority over the other three Bellevue schools when placing players on the team. What happens to those players from another school who don't make it? If there aren't enough players for a team at one of those schools, they are sorry out of luck. And it's tough to get a team started with finances, field issues, being able to get a coach, etc.
I still say let the kids play if they have the initiative to try to hook on elsewhere. No one says the other team has to take them. But it would at least give the kids a secoond option.
I agree that the first option for any player needs to be at the school he attends. Your example of a Lakeside player living in Mercer Island having to play for Lakeside is dead on (unless of course he gets cut- then I go back to my arguement above).
Lacrosse seems to drift in and out of the WIAA rules as is convenient, so I'm not buying how they would handle it.
It's a choice
Lacrosse is about the kids, but if a player chooses to attend a private HS and does not make that team's team, he/she shouldn't be allowed to take a spot on a public school team in his/her home district which could be taken by another player who attends that public school. It was that particular athlete's decision to attend a different school.
get off the cut sport discussion...
I don't think there is any concern that outside the big four programs, there is a need to cut players. More concerning at several private schools i.e. Seattle Prep, U Prep, Lakeside, Blanchette etc., is simply enough kids to have a JV and Varsity team. Two of these schools don't have a team, and they have to play for a public school. By the way, when was the last time a kid chose the school he attends? The parents are the ones who write the checks.
Lacrosse is neither anywhere near the point of becoming WIAA, nor is it anywhere near the point of needing to turn players away from the sport.
Very good point...
Here is the link to the Board minutes from the June 10th meeting. One other interesting thing to consider as well, is the discussion of private school attendance and the mandate for them to play "where there schoolmates play." this requires all players at the same private school to play at the same Lacrosse program despite potentially living on the other side of the water.
http://www.whsbla.org/docs/gm_june_10_2006.pdf