im in a predicament

[CHMiddie]

ok so heres the problem.

i play for a town-ball team. the team is based in cherry hill which is about 15 mins away from me. most of the kids on the team are from cherry hill.

i love lax...its pretty much my life..aside from a few other things. i want to...wait i need to play in college. heres where it gets complex.

im a frosh this year in high school. my school does not have lax n i do not believe there is any hope of them getting it even tho its blowing up in schools all around me. the sport of lacrosse is in the budget for cherry hill schools next year and so if the budget gets passed then my townball team is disbanding because there wont be a need for it.

right now i go to a private school. there is another school just as close to me that has lacrosse and is also private. i feel it nessicary to play for a hs so i can get scouted and not have to be a walk on at a bad college.

the question is:

should i stay at the school im in even if the budget gets passed

OR should i transfer?

there are a few more factors that i am not going to get into at the moment. if asked, ill tell but for the moment this post is getting pretty long...

[SheepShank]

At my school we didn't have a lacrosse program at all so me and a few buddies, with alota help from one of my friends mom got a lacrosse program established at our school. (established this year 2004) It might be to late for you to get one this year because the season has either started or almost starting. But I reccomend bringing it to the attention of the school board or what not at you school now so that you might be able to have one next year.

Oh I'm a Frosh to btw.


Also I wouldn't transfer, because the odds are very slim that you will be playing in the NLL or MLL someday, so I think your academic career would be more important.

[smitt5168]

IMO i'd transfer. but will your parents let you? cost a lot of money private schools do. and, if you go to a good school, why transfer.... i wouldn't leave a good academic school. lax isn't life.

[GeorgiaMiddie2]

here's my whole take on the whole transfering schools thing... as my coach says... very few kids go pro in lax out of college- most kids go pro in their major when they come out of college. so, go to the school which can get you into a good college, and prepare you for that college... education comes first, then lacrosse. academic scholarships pay for more of college than athletic scholarships do. plus, academic scholarships are easier to keep... as long as you keep your grades up, you keep it... you cant control whether you get injured or not and lose your athletic scholarship.

[newbie]

IMO I'd transfer. One of my guy friends is an awesome lax player. He transfered to a boarding school in the US that has a great lax team. He had to re-do grade 11 because the US system is different from ours, but it was worth it for him. He still got a good education and he played lax which is what he wanted.

[WarriorLax22]

stay where you are. chances are you're going to get into a school based on academics and not lacrosse. i don't care how good of a player you are, if you fail all your classes, you won't go to a good school. schools like princeton or duke won't even look at you; hopkins has taken a bunch of wastes though. but i highly doubt you'd get recruited there. and, even if you did, it'd be hard to stay in 'cause the work will force you to drop out.

[Lyons Lax]

i agree with the comment above. Lacrosse is awesome and all but dont transfer just to play lacrosse go where theres a better education. lacrosse is just a sport you have the whole rest of your life to worry about. choose a school based on how well it educates you not if it has a lacrosse team. I hate these kids on my team who think lacrosse is their whole life, they sit at home and discuss who strings a better traditional pocket, on a saturday night. but thats just what i got to say.

[Alex]

I know in Massachusetts it is permissible to play for a different high schools while you attend your regular one in situations like yours. I would check it out, probably having no program will help you actually if the other school is pretty good.

[CHMiddie]

ok now i gotta go into more detail...

the school i go to is one of the most expensive around. the other one that has lax promised me a starting varsity position last summer. i didnt go cuz i didnt get a scholarship. my brother got into nyu which has one of the highest tuitions anywhere. i have another brother at u of delaware. my fams pressed for cash.

i dont plan on going pro i jus wanna play in college n maybe get some money for it. (scholarship) i dont wanna go to princeton or duke. im thinkin more of a drexel. but i do not wanna b a walk on.

this is a tough issue for me. lacrosse was proposed about 3 years ago at my school. since no other school had gotten it they declined and got crew instead. i plan on bringing it up this year but its not lookin very good. ive heard some reasons for not getting a team are no field space which is bull. and not enough intrest/kids which is just complete bs.

iunno....keep the opinions comin.

[GeorgiaMiddie2]

still... unless you're amazing... you'll get more dough than academics than you will for athletics... go to the school where you can get a better education

[WestSideLa X eR]

ok, heres a real life experiance story on your situation

My dads friend was really good at baseball......good enough for the majors. He also was really smart and went to duke.
He played baseb and studied hard. In the majors, he ripped a tendon warming up during practice. It was an important muscle or whatever, so he had to quit. Now, if he put all his hope in athletics, he would be srewed. Since he also studied hard, he had an academic career to fall back to. And Duke is a REALLY good academic fallback option. Hes now a professor/researcher at UofM and Duke.

Dont base all your hopes on athletics, if anything, its a fallback option

[CHMiddie]

im not saying i wanna go pro n im not saying this is determining my life. im just asking if i should transfer to play or stay and not play.

[sumSum]

Depends on how good the other school is and the cost of tuition, if you know people there, what the school is like, if you still have that starting varsity spot, etc. Think beyond the fact they have a team. Put if this way, if you took away lacrosse would you still be happy at that school?

[squire]

If both schools are private, it doesn't sound like you'll get any dumber for transfering. If you can keep your grades up and do lacrosse, do it. Enjoy your high school years.
If you really want to be seen, you're better off showing your stuff at camps. Easier to go to the coaches than the coaches coming to you.
If you don't transfer, in college you'd only be a walk on for a few weeks. Make the team and live the good life after that.
And there's nothing wrong with college club ball, either.

[Thrillhouse]

If the decision is totally up to you, I'd take as much time as you have to make a decision. I isn't easy to leave all of your friends and go to another school. On the other hand, I couldn't imagine not playing lacrosse. Get a piece of paper and start writing out the pros and cons. It's easier to make a decision when you have all the issues in front of you.
Good luck...