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LaxLessons – The Leader. Our groundbreaking, imitated, but never duplicated coverage, and Recruiting Rundown, launched in 2009. http://vimeo.com/104341588 Gibson Smith is busy these days as center for one of the top varsity hockey teams in New York, Pelham High School. But Smith is also one of the best sophomore lacrosse standouts in the nation’s No. […]
With winter officially now under way (as of just after the crack of dawn Sunday), we are inching even closer to start of the brand-new high school lacrosse season. Forgive us for being a bit anxious. Don’t get us wrong. We enjoy the summer and fall showcases in manageable doses, but high school games are the ones […]
We have a new Class of 2018 commitment and, at the same time, a new college program that has picked up its first freshman verbal from the NY/NJ/CT tristate hotspot. It comes from defenseman Pat McElroy of Westfield HS (NJ). McElroy has decided on Denver. He is a technically sound, developing defenseman with huge potential […]
One of the main catalysts behind the rapid rise in the growth of lacrosse has been brothers passing on the game. We have an example of just that in our latest update as well as plenty more commitment news. One of the top junior defenders on Long Island, Sachem North’s Ben Aronow, verbally committed tonight […]
Johns Hopkins has hit the half-dozen mark when it comes to commitments from the nation’s No. 1 lax hotspot, the NY/NJ /CT tristate region, for the Class of 2018. The latest freshman verbal for JHU comes from Long Island. Joe Lombardi is reporting that defender Michael Gomez of Half Hollow Hills East (NY) has committed […]
With the accelerated recruiting recruiting process, the stars have to align for a major Division I program that takes a substantial amount of underclass commitments to have a spot available for an uncommitted post-grad player, let alone a senior. So leading off this latest update is some pretty big news on that front. Robert Kuhn […]
We have commitments to report from three classes in this latest update. We begin with the Class of 2018 and another big verbal East Coast verbal for the University of Michigan. It comes from the Philly area, where West Chester (PA) where left-handed defenseman/longstick midfielder Devin Gilligan has decided on the Maize and Blue. The […]
We start this update with a quick programming note. Our annual Tristate Top 100 preseason player rankings are now completed with the publication of the Top 50. Click here to see the rankings. As always, we welcome any and all feedback and are grateful for the countless emails nominating players the last couple of weeks. We really […]
LaxLessons.com: Imitated, But Never Duplicated. The Original. The Best. The Leader. The Only Unbiased, Professional, Lax Recruiting Source. Fall 2014 Signing Week coverage Our second annual Tristate Top 100 preseason player rankings debuted here Sunday at Lacrosse Insider as we ran down players 50-100, plus a bonus group of players, in our listing of the leading varsity players from the […]
The University at Albany is quickly growing its Class of 2016 commitment list. Head coach Scott Marr has just landed a pair of verbal commitments from a pair of Long Island standouts — both of whom are defenders. Steven Kunz of Farmingdale and Matt Spahr of Comsewogue have both decided on the Great Danes. The […]
LaxLessons.com: Imitated, But Never Duplicated. The Original. The Best. The Leader. The Only Unbiased, Professional, Lax Recruiting Source. Fall 2014 Signing Week coverage Rankings, whether team rankings or player rankings — or restaurant rankings, for that matter — are not an exact science. But they do provide a good starting point for a discussion on a topic. When […]
We broke the news here yesterday of the sea change in Suffolk County league alignments for 2015 that will prevent such matchups as Ward Melville vs. Smithtown West from being played this coming season. We promised we’d have more info and not only do we have that in this update, but we also have the […]
When it comes to top lacrosse leagues in the nation, Suffolk County (NY) Division 1 is regarded universally — at least, beyond the beltway — as the best of the best. But in 2015, many of the traditiona l and much-awaited matchups we’ve seen won’t be happening because of changes made to the alignment. The […]
Our latest 2018 commitment is front and center in this latest update. Speaking of current freshmen, they will be included in our Tristate Top 100 preseason rankings that you can read here on Sunday. Our latest freshman commit though is from just beyond the borders of the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse. One of […]
If it were up to Alec Orazietti, verbal commitments wouldn’t come until after junior year in high school. But that’s not the way it is and the senior attackman at Watchung Hills HS (NJ) knows that better than anyone else. A recruiting odyssey that started when he committed to UMass as a sophomore, before decommitting […]
