Friday, January 2nd, 2009, filed in Weekly Digests

Happy New Year! we hope 2009 will be a great year for you! Here’s the 22nd edition of our weekly High School Sports and Recruiting Digest, which saves you time by giving you the scoop on the stories you may have missed from the last week. Check out the headlines below for what’s been going on, and click the links to see the full stories.
Lacrosse Recruiting Camp Guide
Great guide here to some of the best lacrosse camps in the country.
The Recruiting Game
From Locker Room Prep Talk: “Too many people criticize the recruiting process without understanding what it is all about. They badly need an education, a cold splash of reality. Recruiting may not be what we want it to be but it is what it is and it isn’t going to change. So people, especially parents, must learn to deal with it.” Good article here.
19th Annual Excalibur Girls Soccer Tournament Preview
OCVarsity.com brings you a nice preview of the 19th Annual Excalibur Girls Soccer Tournament. The event, which runs from December 29th-31st features 32 teams from southern California and Arizona.
ESPN Rise to Host Postseason Basketball Tournaments
According to USA Today, ESPN Rise will host postseason girls’ and boys’ tournaments in April. The event will be called the National High School Invitational and will take place at Georgetown Prep’s Hanley Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Girls’ Hockey Picking Up Steam
Interesting article from Boston.com that shows that the number of girls who play hockey is quickly increasing. While there were only about 200 female high school hockey players in 1993-94, that number has now reached 8,621 players (as of last season).
Nation’s Top 2010 RB Loaded With Offers
Marcus Lattimore, a 5′11″ 210-pound junior running back, is Scout.com’s only 5-star back in the class of 2010 so far. Lattimore has already received early scholarship offers from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Clemson.







