Happy Friday everyone,

We write these emails for parents and players trying to navigate their lacrosse journeys.

Highlights of today’s newsletter:

This week’s thought is on managing your summer schedule. To the high school athletes, we hope your season is going well so far. Let’s get into it!

Happy Friday ☕️,
Matt & Deemer

#1 - Jack Speidell scores on the inside vs Dartmouth’s zone defense in a 17-14 win for Harvard!

#2 - Mileena Cotter loses her defender off-ball to score in a gritty 6-5 win for Syracuse over Virginia!

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High School seasons are well underway around the country. As crazy as it seems, Summer is just around the corner.

This week, we wanted to create a brief checklist for players in the 2028 class, or more generally, the class going into their recruiting summer.

This is driven off of advice and conversations we’ve had with families going through the process over the last 8 years.

While tempting to maximize your time on the field for the sake of exposure, we recommend considering the trade-off between the quantity and the quality of your play.

There is a delicate balance to strike. Over-scheduling leads to burnout before the summer is over.

Our Advice: Take a look at your schedule now. How many rest days do you have before the most important tournaments or showcases? What about after?

You want to avoid 4+ day stretches of events.

If you do have any longer stretches of events, do you have multiple days off immediately following the events?

It’s not too late to add, remove or consult your coaches and mentors on final decisions.

If you have not begun thinking about it yet, it is time to start thinking about what schools you would want to attend.

This summer is a great time to visit colleges as you travel around for tournaments and showcases.

Understand, this won’t be a meeting with the college coaches, but just a chance to get a tour of the school, or to see the campus.

It is important to have a grasp on what type of schools you are interested in. We always say, recruiting is a two-way street.

Schools recruit players, but it helps if players have an idea of their interests.

As you begin to think about all of this, send a spring update and summer schedule to schools you are interested in! We recommend another email at the end of spring or beginning of summer.

Most, if not all, college coaches have their emails listed on the school website.

If you are a 2028 and you have gaps in your schedule, prospect days can be a great way to fill those.

Seek advice on what prospect days might be worth attending. Consider spreading your days spent across conferences - unless you’ve gotten strong feedback that you can feel comfortable focusing in one conference or level (like ACC/Big 10).

You want to go to a prospect day of a school that is a realistic target for you. Leverage your coaches or mentors for advice here.

Here is a great blog we wrote on prospect days that dives deeper into this topic: Prospect Days.

The theme here this week: avoid over committing to too many events or tournaments.

The goal going into this summer is to play your best lacrosse each and every time you hit the field.

Some of that comes from preparation, practice, experience, etc. but some of it comes simply by being strategic with your time.

We understand there is a delicate balance of playing enough, and staying fresh, but it helps to start to think ahead and prepare now.

Good luck this summer!

Coach Class and Coach Dunn

Division I: Coaches can contact recruits starting September 1st of junior year (academies can contact on July 1st going into junior year).

No verbal commitments or personal outreach can be made prior to September 1 of the athletes academic junior year.

Division II: Contact allowed from June 15th after sophomore year concludes.

Division III: Most contact permitted anytime, except official visits (which are allowed after January 1st of junior year).

Many athletes ask, what’s the secret to scoring more goals? We brought in some of our FCL women’s offensive athletes to walk through the drills they use to work on their shooting to bury their chances with regularity:

We hope you learn something from it!

✅ Want to see breakdowns? Check out our YouTube page for offensive and defensive breakdowns and workouts!

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