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Top talents are leaving New England for college powerhouses

Even as local college programs keep improving, what attracts our top local recruits to leave New England and head south and west to big conferences? And how do those premier lacrosse programs find them?

By Marisa IngemiJanuary 1, 2018

Skimming the roster of any men's power program is sure to bring up dozens of New England players.

Until recently, New Englanders haven’t had an overflow of local Division 1 options — the selective Ivies, Vermont and Hartford in America East, Providence and UMass and Bryant a few more. That’s been adjusted with the rise of new programs at Boston University and UMass-Lowell.

Yet, plenty of top talent from the region has elected to go west or south for their collegiate careers. The likes of national powers Johns Hopkins, Duke, Ohio State, North Carolina and more are ripe with talent coming from the Northeast.

So how do those intersections occur? What puts a top local player on the radar of a power program from outside the area?

Tags: Bailey Laidman, Cam Macri, D1 Men's Lacrosse, Duke University, North Carolina University, Ohio State University, Ryan Macri, Will Bowen

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