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Old Cage
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Ewan's Dad
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US Lacrosse listed its HS All-Americans, and Laxpower repeated the list but updated with college choices. Some of these guys have been mentioned here, some maybe not. Looks like a good haul though. Three from one school!
Hunziker, Kurt — Midfield (Masconomet, MA/Masconomet, MA)
Fahey, Robert — Defense (Westford, MA/Bishop Guertin, NH)
Karaska, Kyle — Defense (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin, NH)
Spinney, Paul — Midfield (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin, NH)
Oriazetti, Rob — Attack (Mountain Lakes, NJ/Mountain Lakes, NJ)
Balzano, Matt — Midfield (Wantagh, NY/Wantagh, NY)
Muller, Daniel — Midfield (Massapequa, NY/Massapequa, NY)
Disclaimer: This is JUST recruits named US Lacrosse AA's and not a complete list of all UMass recruits. College choices are likely correct, but maybe not. College choices are only listed for seniors. There are junior AA's who I believe are UMass recruits but college choices were not listed (The Panepinto kid from Needham, Smith from Billerica, I believe have selected UMass, maybe others).
One more point. Given the way college lacrosse recruiting goes, these guys likely all committed BEFORE last season's phenomenal success. Most HS juniors have already committed too. The kids who will be impressed by 15-1 (sigh) were all sophs and freshmen last season. Then I thought, last season's seniors and juniors were all HS sophs and freshmen in 2006 and probably committed in the wake of the run to the title game. Just a thought. And yes OC, I do realize Hunziker has been mentioned in this thread before. 
http://www.laxpower.com/all-amer/aa-list-hs.php?SelYear=2012&SelGender=B&SelList=AA
http://www.uslacrosse.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=k_tjaFurCwU%3d&tabid=14482
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BishopMVP
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Ewan's Dad wrote: | | Disclaimer: This is JUST recruits named US Lacrosse AA's and not a complete list of all UMass recruits. College choices are likely correct, but maybe not. College choices are only listed for seniors. There are junior AA's who I believe are UMass recruits but college choices were not listed (The Panepinto kid from Needham, Smith from Billerica, I believe have selected UMass, maybe others). |
The Panepinto who made AA (Nico) is committed to Fairfield. The younger UMass-committed brother, Mike, broke his collarbone in preseason but came back for Needham's playoff run. (Same thing happened to Cohasset's Kyle Livingstone, another in-state commit not mentioned in this thread yet who will be on campus this fall.) The only uncommitted player on that EMass AA list is Westford's Jay Drapeau unless he's committed in the past two weeks - I'm sure he's got plenty of offers at this point.
I know I've said and advocated for it before, but it does seem like UMass's staff seems to be getting more in-state kids (and I'll include BG in that since many of their players come from Mass). The top few dozen kids we'll always have to compete with everyone for, but when filling out the back half of a roster (a.k.a. the kids who will get no or very little scholarship money) the cost of attending UMass for an in-state kid is the financial equivalent of a half-scholarship from an AE/Big East/CAA/Patriot League school. Part of that may also because there was/is a huge upswing in talent starting with the 2012 class. There are now at least 50-60 legitimate D1 prospects coming out of Mass in each grade once you include the ISL and Prep school kids, which didn't seem to be the case 2-3 years ago and certainly wasn't the case 10-15 years ago. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Great point about the in-state tuition, Bishop. I know of a couple of solid rising juniors considering UMass heavily even while being recruited by other top schools, for two main reasons, they like the program and the like the fact that they will have to pay much less to go here.
One question: Do you think UMass will ever get the ISL or prep kids or are those kids hopelessly lost to schools outside of Massachusetts? When I see a kid like Governor's Sam Davis opting for Penn State or some of the other kids at Governors opting for North Carolina, etc., I wonder if they even consider UMass or if they are recruited at all by the staff.
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BishopMVP
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| 78 wrote: | Great point about the in-state tuition, Bishop. I know of a couple of solid rising juniors considering UMass heavily even while being recruited by other top schools, for two main reasons, they like the program and the like the fact that they will have to pay much less to go here.
One question: Do you think UMass will ever get the ISL or prep kids or are those kids hopelessly lost to schools outside of Massachusetts? When I see a kid like Governor's Sam Davis opting for Penn State or some of the other kids at Governors opting for North Carolina, etc., I wonder if they even consider UMass or if they are recruited at all by the staff. |
Short answer, yeah I think a lot of ISL/NE Prep kids are hopelessly lost to UMass, but I don't see why we can't compete better for the ones going to Penn State. Because Tambroni's now pulled out at least 3 really, really good players from Mass the last 2 years in Davis, Kennedy and Darcey.
I think there is a tier of schools we can never compete with (the Ivies and the service academies for preparation for post-college alone), and a tier we'll always have trouble competing with (ND, Hopkins and the ACC schools for the combination of academics and tradition/prestige - Maryland and UNC a little less so), but past that I think the top Mass recruits shouldn't be going to a different school without a really good reason (they got offered a full ride by a different school, they grew up somewhere else, they look at the depth chart and realize the redshirt freshman goalie probably has that position locked up the next 4 years, etc) |
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Kosty
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| Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| It always drives me crazy to see kids from Duxbury going out of state. |
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Dickie Dunn
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| Kosty wrote: | | It always drives me crazy to see kids from Duxbury going out of state. |
Especially when the coach's brother is one of our all-time leading scorers.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 11:37 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | One question: Do you think UMass will ever get the ISL or prep kids or are those kids hopelessly lost to schools outside of Massachusetts? When I see a kid like Governor's Sam Davis opting for Penn State or some of the other kids at Governors opting for North Carolina, etc., I wonder if they even consider UMass or if they are recruited at all by the staff. |
With Sam Davis, being from Pittsfield, shouldn't he have been exposed to UMass Lacrosse before his Governor's days?
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Old Cage
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Two more - rising juniors:
http://ht.ly/cI9O8
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In my view, Lax in general is headed in the wrong direction when it is offering "rising sophomores" (in high school). See below article.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bs-sp-digest-0806-20120806,0,3762849.column
With relatively few schollies anyway, and who knows if the recruited students are even college caliber, the system is tilting prematurely toward 15 year olds, which will put even more pressure on being with the 'right' club team in 8th grade.
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Old Cage
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In other sports kids in the 8th grade are getting offers. 
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Old Cage wrote: | | In other sports kids in the 8th grade are getting offers. |
There are recruiting services for college basketball that study 6th graders and up. |
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Exactly, the corruption and the AAU basketball netherworld are nothing to be emulated IMO. Football now is getting into it with 7x7 summer clubs.
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More on St. Laurent from Inside Lacrosse:
"Domenic St. Laurent, M, Bishop Guertin (N.H.) has verbally committed to UMass. A two-way speedster, St. Laurent scored 40+ points his sophomore season to earn All-State honors and a third consecutive state championship. This summer, he played in events with the NH Tomahawks, also attending Maverik Showtime and Adrenaline Black Card. St. Laurent also considered Colgate, Dartmouth, St. John's and Holy Cross."
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