LacrosseRecruits.com Featured In Lacrosse Magazine

November was a very exciting month for LacrosseRecruits.com. We finished and tested the girls side of LacrosseRecruits.com (to be released to the public very soon), we finished guided flash tours of LacrosseRecruits.com (which will be live this week!), and we continued to grow our membership base. An added bonus was a phone call out of the blue from a reporter at Lacrosse Magazine asking for a few quotes from us for their "Recruiting U" series. They had heard about LacrosseRecruits.com through the lacrosse community and were very impressed with our website and the tools we offer our members.

If you are not familiar with the series, "Recruiting U" is a series in each month's issue of Lacrosse Magazine that tackles a different aspect of recruiting. For the month of December, Lacrosse Magazine was taking a look at the myth regarding athletic scholarships. It seems like everyday you hear about somebody going somewhere on a "full ride." The fact is, however, the NCAA allows only 12.6 scholarships for every DI men's lacrosse program and 12 scholarships for every DI woman's program. That being said, not every DI lacrosse team is fully funded and receives all of the scholarship money allowed per NCAA guidelines. We had heard from numerous sources that the number of lacrosse players to EVER receive a full athletic scholarship could be counted on one hand. In the article (which can be viewed here), Coach Dom Starsia of UVA had this to say, "In my 17 years at Virginia, I think we've done it three times, where we've given somebody a full scholarship."

I had a great talk with the reporter and this is what was printed regarding LacrosseRecruits.com:

"If you just look at the scholarship offerings, you're probably talking about the top 150 guys in the country, and there's probably 4,000 kids going in to play college lacrosse at all the levels every year," said Matt Wheeler, a four-year letterwinner at Wesleyan University who, along with former teammate Chris Meade, co-founded lacrosserecruits.com -- a Facebook-style Web site designed to market high school lacrosse players to college coaches.

We suggest you read the whole article as Lacrosse Magazine is absolutely right in everything they touch on in this article.

Also featured in the December issue of Lacrosse Magazine was A High School Athlete's Recruiting Guide To College Lacrosse, which is the recruiting guide we wrote and currently sell on LacrosseRecruits.com. This guide was included in "The Scoop" section as a great holiday gift.

The guide helps high school players plan for the recruiting process and helps them avoid the mistakes many high school lacrosse players make. Using this guide along with a LacrosseRecruits.com profile puts any player at a distinct advantage over his or her peers.

Stay tuned for more from LacrosseRecruits.com as we launch the girls side of LacrosseRecruits.com and push the guided flash tours live!

Homecoming Weekend Recap & New LacrosseRecruits.com Developments

Last weekend, Matt and I headed to Wesleyan for Homecoming Weekend. The weekend was full of good times and opportunities to connect with friends and fellow alumnus. We even threw on our pads and got back on the field to take some runs against current Wesleyan lacrosse players.

Matt and I have been extremely busy as we approach 4 months of operation. We have broken the 200-member mark, and are almost ready to roll out travel team pages, launch the girl’s side of LacrosseRecruits.com and incorporate interactive java tours. There has been so much great feedback from the lacrosse community about these features that we are very anxious to get everything up and going.

Also, we launch our new ad management system in the upcoming weeks. We recently negotiated advertising arrangements with Under Armour and Vineyard Vines. Both of these companies are increasingly active in the lacrosse community and we are thrilled to work with them as we grow our business.

Belated Thank You: We want to thank Dan Latzman, the sports editor of Wesleyan’s school newspaper, for running a story on LacrosseRecruits.com and our recent success. You can click here to read the article.

Glen Adams Scores 3 In Lizard's OT Win

Shout out to Glen Adams (Wesleyan 06'), who scored 3 goals on Saturday night, including a goal with 3 seconds left in the 4th quarter to send the game to overtime.

http://www.longislandlizards.com/team/news/index.html?article_id=314

Well done, Glen.

From the Basement - MLL Draft & Tech

Lacrosse

Last night, the Boston Cannons selected Paul Rabil as the #1 pick in the MLL draft. It was an exciting evening, as more and more quality players graduate and want to play in the MLL. Click here to see the entire list.

More importantly, LacrosseRecruits has some friends who were selected in the draft. Shout out to...

#10 - Jordan Levine (Albany) to New Jersey - Scary thing, he might be a better trangleball player

#45 - Ryan Heath (Cortland) to Long Island - D3 represent!

#46 - Tony Tanzi (SHU) to Boston - Good luck dealing with Zummo's shenanigans on midfield

Please shoot me an email if you want to come to the Boston Cannons/Long Island Lizards game on Saturday night...

Tech

Straight from the mouth of Steve Jobs, well fake Steve Jobs, "What could be cleaner, more Zen? More Apple. than solar powered iPods, iPhones, and laptops?" MacRumors reported on a recently published patent application that uses solar power to power different Apple devices. Click here to see what MacRumors had to say...


On a personal note, I suggest everyone starts using Twitter. Although, they have been experiencing some growing pains, the application allows people to connect using short "blog" entries or IMs through a group of people. Please join and follow me at www.twitter.com/chrismeade for updates and some classic banter.