“One of the reasons USC is moving to Division I with its women’s lacrosse program ... is because we’ve got girls playing lacrosse in high school here now,” Ness said.
It will be interesting to see what USC's womens lacrosse roster looks like in 2010. My guess is that it will consist primarily of girls from the Northeast, even though the coaches could get in-state players a lot cheaper.
If USC is doing this because they want to capitalize on the local "feeder program", then I would encourage 90% of the girls who are athletic enough to play ODP, or R3PL, to put away their soccer balls and pick up a lax stick. History shows that fewer than 10% of our top level girls players even have a shot at stepping on the soccer field for USC, so.......
Go Lacrosse!
