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TAV, I thought you were serious until you mentioned Colgate. Regarding Cornell ... let's see how Delaney does this year. He was a Cornell commit.
If you are an alum, why put "liberal arts" in quotes? We are a niche school for D1 lax, but the niche is there to be filled.

Laxgunea wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:56 pm TAV, I thought you were serious until you mentioned Colgate. Regarding Cornell ... let's see how Delaney does this year. He was a Cornell commit.
If you are an alum, why put "liberal arts" in quotes? We are a niche school for D1 lax, but the niche is there to be filled.

I didn’t mean liberal art specifically as it related to Hobart; I meant generally. The value of a liberal arts degree has been seriously diluted over the past 30 years - given the cash outlay required. My wife is a specialist with college admission essays and I’ve observed and and helped her evaluate the full range of colleges and college programs - I have become biased towards larger institutions for a number of reasons - both my boys looked @ smaller liberal arts schools, but chose UNC and Harvard. They got the same “college” experience as a smaller liberal arts school but had additional opportunities that a larger institution can provide.

As far as Colgate is concerned - academically, a slight notch above Hobart, but probably where Hobart would like to be. In terms of lax - fairly comparable, except they are in a better conference and generally play a higher caliber opponent - they don’t have the history Hobart does, but those “glory days” are over.

Like I’ve said, I will always want Hobart to do well, but as a fan, their upside is limited. I do love the underdogs and Carolina is consistently placed in the role in the ACC so I get the best of all worlds - an underdog, great conference play and certainly in the mix for a seeded Tourney run - more often than not.

I would like to point out that we’ve completely owned Colgate the last couple of years, certainly last two. Was a squeaker but even beat them as one of only 4 wins in that wretched 2018 season

Hobart def has a great goalie the last 4 years. I believe he moved on to the MLL.

bauer4429 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:50 pm Hobart def has a great goalie the last 4 years. I believe he moved on to the MLL.

Yes, Sam Lucchesi moved on to the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Sophomore Kevin Holtby and senior C.J. White are in a battle for the starting job. My guess is Holtby gets it. But CJ won't hand it to him. We have 2 FY goalies on the roster. Hard to tell how good they are with no videos of them playing last year..... It's been a while since a FY took the starting job to start a season.

Luccesi really started the prior 2.5 or so years. We had a terrific salt of the earth goalie (like so many gold Hobart ones such as Max S and Freddie P) named Jackson Brown how singlehandedly beat Bryant in the NEC 1st round playoff game where Bryant has Gunnar Waldt and a Mazza and was ranked coming off the syracuse playoff win the year prior). Brown graduated in 2016 and Sam eventually earned the starting spot in 2017 as we rotated kids early in that season between him, Tristan Dougherty and CJ White (current senior). I thought Jake Drennan had the potential to be the next large and in charge multi year goalie for us but he unfortunately caught a bad concussion and had to retire. Hope they all leave their junk on the practice field but my money is on Holtby being the next guy.

I am curious about the Furman flip from Severn who played in world games as a HS Soph as well as having to assume the kid of a coach of a highly successful Mass HS program (Vona, whos dad Brian runs Lincoln Sudbury) should be well prepared to step up.

Jackson Brown was a stud. His stats would have been off the charts if not for his struggles in the indoor games. He just never saw the ball well indoors
Tristan looked like a solid replacement but never really got ina groove , but remained an outstanding teammate
Sam stepped in and stepped up, great competitor the bigger the spot , the more the team needed him the better he played
He’ll be missed more than Scotty or Holden (both stars, but Sammy will be missed more)

I was so impressed how Scott transformed from a pure scorer to a very good two way middie and keep wondering if by year end we wouldn’t have been all talking about him being the most valuable player scoring, playing D, transition, etc and a still tossing up 30-40pts.

Roster has been updated. Includes pics and bio information.
https://hwsathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mlax&

New Podcast out (#14)

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