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[QUOTE="ohmilax34, post: 5481979, member: 6339"]
While I'm very interested in the age of recruits and how a coach looks at recruiting players of varying ages and stages of personal development to project a player's future impact, I think the age difference and the effect it has on players in college is probably a bit overblown.

One reason I think this is because a male's athletic peak is around what age, 27?  Why wouldn't a college coach want players as close to that peak as possible?  Just a couple anecdotes, which I know don't prove my point.  Steven Brooks graduated HS in 2002, presumably at 18 years old, went to Bridgton Academy in 2003, arrived at SU in 2003-04, redshirted in 2006 for injury, finished his SU career in 2008 and presumably 24 years old.  He was very close to his athletic peak and had a great season.  Similar story with Logan Wisnauskas.  He graduated from Boys Latin in 2016, maybe 18 or 19 years old at the time, redshirted in 2017 (SU was flush with lefty offensive players (Evans, Mariano, Rehfuss, Voigt), transferred to UMD, got the COVID redshirt in 2020 and won a national championship and the Tewwaaraton as a senior in 2022 as a 24 or 25 year old.

Also, we kind of assume that all 18 year-olds are at the same stage in their athletic and lacrosse development, when the reality is that they are not.  I don't know Lally or Ortlieb's stories, but maybe they were heavily focused on other sports when they were 14 or 15 and didn't focus on lacrosse until they were 17 or 18.
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