Part One (Sept. 2008) Free Fall? | Peer Review: Shannon
Smith
Part Two (Oct. 2008): Passport to Campus |
Peer Review:
Gordie Wells
Part Three (Nov. 2008): Too Vested in Verbals?
| Peer Review:
Lily Ricci
Part Four (Dec. 2008): Piece of the Pie | Peer Review: Ilyssa
Meyer
Part Five (Feb. 2009): Best Foot
Forward
Part Six (March 2009): Camp
Stories | Peer
Review: What Camp Best Fits Me?
Part Seven (April 2009): Be
True to Your School?
Part Eight (May 2009): Transfer
of Power | Peer
Review: Q&A with an Early Commit
Part Nine (October 2009): Are
You the Diamond in the Rough? | Think
D-III
Part Ten (November 2009): Me Time |
Peer
Review: Kayleigh Hynes
Recruiting is a topic on which families, prospects, coaches and others expend considerable resources, time and emotion. Lacrosse Magazine will delve into many of the sub-topics involved in a series of articles, augmented by personal stories from young men and women that have recently completed or are in the midst of the recruiting process.
Part Nine of the series details how persistence pays off for non-blue chip recruits. This article appears in the October issue of LM. Don't get the mag? Join US Lacrosse and its 300,000-plus members today to start your monthly subscription.
Want a Life in College? Think About D-III
by Brian Delaney | Special to Lacrosse Magazine Online
Ana Garcia loves the flexibility of playing lacrosse at the NCAA
Division III level. As a sophomore at Whittier College in suburban
Los Angeles, she spent her fall semester abroad in England.
Coach Emily Hammer encourages such opportunities despite her
players’ absence at fall workouts.
“I think we had four or five go abroad last fall; seven
going abroad this fall,” Garcia said. “Coach is all
about, ‘Do what you want to do while you’re
here.’”
Flexibility is one of the obvious benefits of Division III sports.
With no athletic scholarships, “student” outweighs
“athlete” at every juncture.
“I think you can be interested in more things and pursue
more things at the D-III level,” Washington & Lee
men’s lacrosse coach Gene McCabe said.
The overwhelming numbers help, too. Division III lacrosse has 185
women’s teams and 156 men’s teams, compared to 88 and
59 in Division I, respectively. With the rapid growth of youth
lacrosse, both Hammer and McCabe said filling roster spots have not
been, or are no longer, concerns.
“I still would never turn a girl away,” Hammer said.
“It’s a D-III spot and even though we want to be
competitive, we should give every girl that opportunity…
There are great lacrosse players everywhere. It’s not so much
finding great lacrosse players, it’s finding kids who buy
into your philosophies.”
