High schools with out lacrosse!!!!

[laxplayerfinn]

My High school does not have lacrosee i live in Newton Jct NH and i need to play, i was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible for me to play for the high school 10 minutes away even though im at my school. i play with that team in winter lacrosse and the youth team if anyone has any information please tell me!!!![

[FPlaxer]

can u transfer schools or is that not an option?

[Hawksgoalie39]

man now u know how i felt, only private school usually have lacrosse in florida. i think i am the only public school that has one! but i think that it depends on your school. if it is a club then most probably, but if it was a real team then maybe only if you were really good or if they need players? but i am just estimating.
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[BukkShot]

I transfered schools...cost about $1000 in place of the taxes that would go to that school from ur parents but I wanted to play really bad so I did it and havn't regretted it...Try getting a team started at your new school!!! Go talk to your counselor...here's some other info...click on LINKS in the left bar...then click on the central TX LAX link rite above the UH helmet...then go to boys highschool LAX (top left)....then click the NEW TEAM STARTUP MANUAL on the left bar toward the bottom...New Team Startup (http://www.clearlakelacrosse.org/)

(I printed it out at my school...lots of ink and paper....put those tax dollars to work)

good luck

[AHSmiddie]

i dont know if this applys but a kid from middle school played for the high school... and the middle school has a team the kid just didnt like the coach, even though the coach was awesome! but anyways you should as the school you want to play for and ask your school if they would let you.

[FredtheCat]

I've heard of kids playing for schools across town, etc before. Not sure what the exact rules on it are, but I know it happens. I live in NY and my high school doesn't have a legit lax team, how sad is that? We have plenty of players and all of the equipment, but the school simply refuses to give us a team. :hot:

[Levin]

At my school, we have a lacrosse club... not an exact team though

[lilaxgurl23]

My High school does not have lacrosee i live in Newton Jct NH and i need to play, i was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible for me to play for the high school 10 minutes away even though im at my school. i play with that team in winter lacrosse and the youth team if anyone has any information please tell me!!!![

Where I live a I know a few people who have done a sport in a different school. I don't know exactly how it works but they take a bus from their school (or some sort of transportation) after school ends and come over to our school. People from other schools have done baseball and cheerleading and I think lacrosse. But I don't think this has happened in high school. I only remember it in junior high.

[CyCloneLaXer17]

Last yr at private school, the sports we didnt offer could go play for public school, like swimming, field hockey and such, volleyballs....so i think ud be able to

[lklax]

MY high school dosn't offer lacrosse either and it sucks. But I play for the Richmond Shock in virginia. So I'm lucky we have a travel team.

[memphislax]

well im glad you guys live in places where people know what lacrosse is! Most people where I live are like "LACROSSE! Wuts thayit?" With the redneck accent and everything.

[agdomain]

I would heavily suggest starting your own team. That's what I did for my team (Howell, MI), and so far it has been a big success. Just go around and get the word out, put up flyers, send announcements, etc. In just over a week when I started up my team, we had over 80 kids sign up. Some, like myself had been playing lacrosse for a while, but we also had other guys (great athletes... made all county football, b-ball teams) who just had picked up a stick for the sake of trying something new. You'd be suprised how many people come out for the team- we set our sights low and were blown away by the support we got.

[ChIcAgO LaX MiD]

The AD at my school is so stubborn... he favors football over any sport (and this year our team sucked) So I brought tp him the idea of getting a Team started. I made a petition for guys that would wanna play and i got 33 signatures. He looked at the petition and said... "No.. Im just not feeling like theres enough intrest" I explained to him its more than enough for one team and he gave me 20 reasons why it wasnt possible. I asked about a club team where the school pays for NOTHING and he cobboshed that. Ive been fighting for about 6 months to get one.... nothings working.

[GCHSLax04]

Wheaton huh? Well that would explain why I couldn't find you guys on laxpower. We got lucky, we had 66 guys our first year of varsity lax. Get these kids to talk to their parents, have the parents call in, just keep pressuring, and most importantly try and get more signatures!

[monmlax]

i played for st. charles and we got jack from the school. What you can do is try to get a club started, and then call up other coaches and ask for scrimmages. Just because you aren't school sponsored doesn't mean you can't get a team going. Try to get local sponsorship from companies. We are putting a low estimate at raising 10 grand for my new college team. ChIcAgO LaX MiD I will PM you some of our fundraising stuff. Call up every major lax company and tell them your situatiom, and maybe they will cut you some nice deals like they did for my club. I wish the best of luck to ya'll in getting a club started!

[LiveAtWoodstock]

Yeah we're a club, and we get screwed with crap fields, bad times for games, etc. We have a few kids that go to other schools in the area, and thanks to lacrosse, I am now good friends with them.

[GCHSLax04]

We played on a lawn right next to a retention pond and the local pool. It sucked. But we had terrain advantage. Those potholes were EXCELLENT.

[agdomain]

The AD at my school is so stubborn... he favors football over any sport (and this year our team sucked) So I brought tp him the idea of getting a Team started. I made a petition for guys that would wanna play and i got 33 signatures. He looked at the petition and said... "No.. Im just not feeling like theres enough intrest" I explained to him its more than enough for one team and he gave me 20 reasons why it wasnt possible. I asked about a club team where the school pays for NOTHING and he cobboshed that. Ive been fighting for about 6 months to get one.... nothings working.

How many of those 33 signatures were actually going to play? The idea of paying for everything may scare alot of people off. Also, how many were upperclassmen/lowerclassmen? This was an issue brought up by our AD when I was getting a team going. If half the guys graduate and there is not enough support for year two, then it would almost be a waste of time. Lucky for us, we had about 32 sophomores and roughly 20 freshmen along with the seniors and juniors.

[happykeeper]

In middle school we had a combined team of two junior highs in the same town plus girls from a small private school come play for us. Maybe ur school and the other school could do the same.

[fenwicklax89]

my school started a team last year and they sucked pretty bad. you cant blame em though. they were givin a forest preserve field that had absolutely zero drainage. They pretty much had to pave the road for the future years of the school team. After last year, the team proved to the AD that a lacrosse team will have a positive effect on the school and its incoming students ( you have to test into the school, and my school is the only private school in the area that has a lax team....long story). About 30 incoming freshman are interested in playin and about 10 of those are beginniner and have been playin indoor for the past 2 months. About 4 freshman, including myself, are playin up. The formation of our team was mainly due to parent support. just about all the school does is give us letters for the jackets. we dont even get transportation to the fields which are 15 minutes from the school.
Keep tryin and try to find experienced coaches that can commit their time to make the team a lastin success

[Plummer]

My High school does not have lacrosee i live in Newton Jct NH and i need to play, i was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible for me to play for the high school 10 minutes away even though im at my school. i play with that team in winter lacrosse and the youth team if anyone has any information please tell me!!!![

yea i go to a private school that dosent have a lacrosse team so i play for the public high school that i live next to it works for me but i dont know if your league would let you

[AHSmiddie]

i dont see why they wouldnt let you play for the school. i mean its not like you will be compeating(sp?) aginst your own school so i dont see a problem but like everyone said just ask

[ChIcAgO LaX MiD]

To answer your question agdomain all 33 want to play. Most of them play on different teams throughout the chicagoland and they own their own gear. there are 24 under classmen (Freshman & Sophomores) and 9 upperclassmen (Juniors... No seniors) so I think we'd have enough.

[Patton906]

you'd have to talk to your school board I guess but you probably could play for the team across town. their was a player on Syracuse last year who had to do that in high scohool because his school didnt have a team