New Girls High School Lacrosse Club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just saw the roster the 2022 team looks like a roster of girls cut from other programs. Mostly girls looking for a home and they had roster spots. Its good these girls had an option and will help grow the game. So much for knocking Capital off.

Where is the roster posted?

+1, doesn’t appear to be on their website,

[Anonymous]

I saw the roster as well its circulating around it was announced to the team. Mostly girls cut from other programs. Surprised at the number of SSSA refugees who didn't make Capital but even bigger surprise was not many Pride girls on the list considering it was supposed to be a feeder program. Maybe those girls know something and voted with their feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw the roster as well its circulating around it was announced to the team. Mostly girls cut from other programs. Surprised at the number of SSSA refugees who didn't make Capital but even bigger surprise was not many Pride girls on the list considering it was supposed to be a feeder program. Maybe those girls know something and voted with their feet.

Honestly, you sound like a coach from a competitor team. Whether you are or not, it is pretty pathetic for an adult to speak about fourteen year olds the way you do. Thee are girls trying to better themselves at a sport, you could show a modicum of class and not try to tear them down. Your comments reveal much more about you than anyone else.

[Anonymous]

Karma is a funny thing after all you reap what you sow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Karma is a funny thing after all you reap what you sow.

.??? You sound unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I saw the roster as well its circulating around it was announced to the team. Mostly girls cut from other programs. Surprised at the number of SSSA refugees who didn't make Capital but even bigger surprise was not many Pride girls on the list considering it was supposed to be a feeder program. Maybe those girls know something and voted with their feet.

Honestly, you sound like a coach from a competitor team. Whether you are or not, it is pretty pathetic for an adult to speak about fourteen year olds the way you do. Thee are girls trying to better themselves at a sport, you could show a modicum of class and not try to tear them down. Your comments reveal much more about you than anyone else.

Well said. We should all be working to build up girls, not tear them down or allow others to tear them down.

The FP's post and many others are despicable in their lack of care for the feelings of 14-15 year old girls. It is a good thing that there is another club to widen the options for girls in our area to play high level lacrosse.

If you truly love girls lax and want more girls in the sport then you will be building up girls and their teams instead of lobbing cheap shots. We need more opportunities for our girls, not fewer. If you don't understand that, then you have a problem and the problem is you.

[Anonymous]

We all agree and people are not criticizing the girls on Panthera and its great they have options to explore. In fact its the folks who run Panthera that made this an us vs. them decision. Panthera scheduled their tryout before every other club and when 14 old girls made your team they were given an expiring offer with a manufactured deadline. The coaches were very critical of other clubs and the goal was clear "lock kids up before they have seen other programs".

"No drama and No Politics" well thats not true Panthera injected more pressure on 14 year old girls than any other program. Panthera threatned girls and demanded loyalty to your program. Most 14 year old girls want to tryout for every program and see which one they like the best, Panthera gave them expiering offers and tried to bully kids into going with their timelines.

How is this good for the game or the girls? All it does is put money in the founders pocket. It really not about your club its about the kids. The game you played was high stackes and you lost. Panthera tried to force kids to go with their club instead of encouraging them to look around.

The drama Panthera created for many of these 14 year old girls was unfair. Let kids meet new coaches if your really the best then these girls will want to play for your club and they will be begging to tryout next year. The reality is Panthera didn't have a lot to offer essentially a brand new club with new coaches at the High School level and zero history on the recruiting circut. Yet you advertised like the club was better than every other club. Girls needed options not arrogance and unfortunately that is what they recieved from Panthera.

Maybe next year Panthera's approach will be different and you will promote whats best about your program and find girls that fit with what your trying to do.

This forum is not read by kids its read by Moms and how girls were treated by the Panthera program was unfortunate. In the end girls had less options and the stress created was not worth the hype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all agree and people are not criticizing the girls on Panthera and its great they have options to explore. In fact its the folks who run Panthera that made this an us vs. them decision. Panthera scheduled their tryout before every other club and when 14 old girls made your team they were given an expiring offer with a manufactured deadline. The coaches were very critical of other clubs and the goal was clear "lock kids up before they have seen other programs".

"No drama and No Politics" well thats not true Panthera injected more pressure on 14 year old girls than any other program. Panthera threatned girls and demanded loyalty to your program. Most 14 year old girls want to tryout for every program and see which one they like the best, Panthera gave them expiering offers and tried to bully kids into going with their timelines.

How is this good for the game or the girls? All it does is put money in the founders pocket. It really not about your club its about the kids. The game you played was high stackes and you lost. Panthera tried to force kids to go with their club instead of encouraging them to look around.

The drama Panthera created for many of these 14 year old girls was unfair. Let kids meet new coaches if your really the best then these girls will want to play for your club and they will be begging to tryout next year. The reality is Panthera didn't have a lot to offer essentially a brand new club with new coaches at the High School level and zero history on the recruiting circut. Yet you advertised like the club was better than every other club. Girls needed options not arrogance and unfortunately that is what they recieved from Panthera.

Maybe next year Panthera's approach will be different and you will promote whats best about your program and find girls that fit with what your trying to do.

This forum is not read by kids its read by Moms and how girls were treated by the Panthera program was unfortunate. In the end girls had less options and the stress created was not worth the hype.

You sound way too personally invested. All clubs have 48 to 72 hours to accept offers, I would be shocked if a new club did it differently. And if your daughter doesn’t play for them, why do you care about their so-called arrogance?

Unless you are an owner of a competitor club trying to stamp out competition. Or a parent who is insanely and inappropriately obsessed with any club that might negatively affect her chances of being recruited from a competitor club.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all agree and people are not criticizing the girls on Panthera and its great they have options to explore. In fact its the folks who run Panthera that made this an us vs. them decision. Panthera scheduled their tryout before every other club and when 14 old girls made your team they were given an expiring offer with a manufactured deadline. The coaches were very critical of other clubs and the goal was clear "lock kids up before they have seen other programs".

"No drama and No Politics" well thats not true Panthera injected more pressure on 14 year old girls than any other program. Panthera threatned girls and demanded loyalty to your program. Most 14 year old girls want to tryout for every program and see which one they like the best, Panthera gave them expiering offers and tried to bully kids into going with their timelines.

How is this good for the game or the girls? All it does is put money in the founders pocket. It really not about your club its about the kids. The game you played was high stackes and you lost. Panthera tried to force kids to go with their club instead of encouraging them to look around.

The drama Panthera created for many of these 14 year old girls was unfair. Let kids meet new coaches if your really the best then these girls will want to play for your club and they will be begging to tryout next year. The reality is Panthera didn't have a lot to offer essentially a brand new club with new coaches at the High School level and zero history on the recruiting circut. Yet you advertised like the club was better than every other club. Girls needed options not arrogance and unfortunately that is what they recieved from Panthera.

Maybe next year Panthera's approach will be different and you will promote whats best about your program and find girls that fit with what your trying to do.

This forum is not read by kids its read by Moms and how girls were treated by the Panthera program was unfortunate. In the end girls had less options and the stress created was not worth the hype.

Sounds like quite an axe to grind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...

This forum is not read by kids ...

This forum and all the others are absolutely read by kids. Their posts are usually pretty easy to spot.

[Anonymous]

Capital has sent a few hundred of kids to Division 1 Lacrosse Programs over the last twenty years. Three girls on the JMU National Championship team were Capital Players and North Carolina had two who played for Capital. Here's the link to where Capital girls end up playing over the years.

http://www.capitallacrosseclub.com/recruiting/where-do-capital-alumnae-play/

Here's the link to the Accolades bestowed on its players.

http://www.capitallacrosseclub.com/player-accolades/

Keep Capital out of your bashing of each others programs. Capital has been a gift to the region. Capital has helped grow the game with events and exposure for the region that other programs would not bring to the region. Just this year Capital hosted Stanford Head Coach, Bucknell Head Coach, Princeton Head Coach and Virginia Head Coach at their facilities to meet their girls. No other club has close to that reach.

The Capital lacrosse community welcomes Panthera to the lax club community but lets not start comparing the two programs. It's not fair to either one. Capital as the record shows has done an amazing job of picking talent and coaching talent to success. The true measure of a club is how well they place their girls and I would say they seem to be doing a great job. Good luck with your 2022 Team I hope your successful.

[Anonymous]

i agree with the PP who said they are trying to build a team when Capital picks girls. When you bring that much talent to a tryout the best of every club has too offer. You get ball hogs galore and hotshots everyone thinks they are the best. You can't have a team of players that cancel each other out. They have to work as a team you needed players that look to assist, players that can score and most of all you need effort players. Not every girl can score 4 goals a game at the next level. Its a funnel of talent and not every goal scorer ends up on Capital Blue because if they did the team would implode. I looked at the rosters for Capital Blue and Capital Orange and what I see as the difference in the players is speed. Many of the girls who made Blue had the fastest times in the 300 and the 40 yard dash. THey had obvious speed advantage on the field.

I have been around this proram for awhile and what I have seen is speed is the most important attribute at the next level in college. Stick skills can be improved, Lax IQ can be taught but speed is god given. I also see the rosters rewarding effort. What do I mean by that...doing the small things like redefending on attack or hustling back as a middie on defense. They push the kids hard in tryouts don't give them breaks test their mental toughness and not everyone has what it takes to keep running.

Playing lacrosse at the college level requires a level of commitment that not every 14 year old has in their DNA. Coaches are looking for kids who are focused on playing in college not necessarily always just the best lax player at the moment. Parents tend to think players abilities stay stagnant. My Daughter was the leading scorer on my team and she should make Capital but what they miss is she may be slightly slower than the girls that has fewer goals. Its like any other sport when I was twelve years old I hit 25 Home Runs for my baseball team but two years later I was done because my bat speed was too slow. Capital Coaches don't look for what they see today they look for what a girl will be in three years.

This years Tewarton finalist from the JMU NCAA Champion was a walk-on whe didn't get a scholarship. Today she is a champion! So don't sweat Blue or Orange its just a snap shot in time. Remember what matters most is where you end up!

[Anonymous]

Well Said

[Anonymous]

Thanks trying to help all the stressed out parents relax a little!

[Anonymous]

NP. I'm a parent of a hopeful future Panthera player and I'm also appalled at the language and attacks from posters representing both Clubs. VA families, we're embarrassing ourselves! There's absolutely no reason to trash these girls and where they choose to play. They may be on different Clubs, but play together on the same HS team, and that's great for all involved. So, we should be encouraging them and working to make the VA players more competitive against the MD & NY teams, not tearing them down.