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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1542693, member: 780"]
I first got that bit of wisdom about the connection between basketball and lacrosse from Georgetown coach, Dave Urick. While at Hobart, when he was looking for walk-on players to fill out his quad, he would go to the gym and see if he could find any really good athletes playing basketball. The keys are finding someone with agility (especially going backwards) and hand-eye coordination. It's pretty easy to see how these skills translate into lacrosse.

I am very close to one of the top US high school programs and have been for many years. They  have sent many players off to play in college. Just  a few of them have been impact players in college. The one's that have been were all either also football and/or basketball players in high school. And good players at that because they were the best athletes in the school. (These kids would be familiar to SU lax fans because several of them played for UVA or Georgetown)

In fact, this school's lacrosse program went from pretty average to the top tier of US programs when they convinced the schools best athletes, who were then playing football and/or basketball to pick up lacrosse as a Spring sport.

I don't know about other areas outside of DC, but the kids that play hockey here or even soccer are not the best athletes in the school (biggest, fastest, toughest).
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