So tonight I went to a UVA Alumni event…a Crab Feast. It was a good time. Hard to say it was worth the $30. I had a good time though, and I got to catch up with Kim, so it’s all good. I ran into a bunch of people from work. It’s nice to not be completely alone at an event like this, but on the flip side, I just wanted tear through some crabs. About a dozen crabs in, I decided that, given the giant pile of crab carcasses, I should probably take it down a notch or two. I also kept cutting in line, haha. Yeah, I don’t think the people liked that so much. But the line was reaaallly long. I just went around on the other side of the table and got my food from over there. It’s not my fault they didn’t think about going around. Ha, suckers.

Also, the chump across from me apparently did not know how to crack open a crab. I mean, I had never done it before either, but I was able to look around and get a feel for it pretty quickly. Just peel on part off, then separate the shell from the body, then split it in half. 1-2-3 done. The chump used the mallet thingy to try to crack open the shell. Needless to say, he made a mess, I laughed at him, then left without telling him how not to do that again. Ha.

While we were there we got to hear Jack Blackburn, Dean of Undergrad Admissions, and Dom Starsia, Head Lacrosse Coach, speak. I found it interesting to know that for the 12th straight year, UVA has had the highest graduation rate among African Americans. Also, UVA shoots for 67% in-state, 33% out-of-state. And to round out today’s trilogy of statistics, legacies make up approximately 13-15% of each incoming class, and their grades and such generally are lower than out-of-state admits, but higher than in-state admits. Now don’t say I never told you anything interesting.

Tonight I got to listen to Dom Starsia, Lacrosse coach, speak at the Crab Feast.  He’s an alright guy - down to earth and all that jazz.  He seems to be (shocker!) excited about the upcoming group of guys we’ve got for our team.  I can’t remember all the details, but one stand-out comment was that we’ve got a pair of twins in the entering class.  This I found interesting.  I wonder if they are both truly that good that they were both recruited for this national championship team (3 in the past 7 years, after all), or if they were really good enough that they were worth recruiting because of marketing and PR.  After all - what’s better than one stand-out player?  TWO stand-out players.  And what’s better than that?  Clearly, twins.

I don’t think our LaX team gets enough credit.  Aside from leading the nation in shots taken, score margins, groundballs, and a whole slew of other categories, we lead the nation in number of academic All-Americans, at 3.  Coach also made a good point - our three All Americans weren’t the bottom-of-the-roster walk-on bench warmers.  They were three of our top players — Matt Ward, Michael Culver, and Matt Poskay.  We’re talkin’ cream of the crop here.

Aside from that Dom was very humble, but wouldn’t say much about next year other than the usual crap coaches say about how they think it’ll be promising and they’ve got a good group of guys and all that stuff.  My thoughts are that either (a) he doesn’t want to jinx it or (b) he’s worried.  I hope it’s (a).