2026 Girls Player Commitments🥍🥍

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Anonymous wrote:For those that decide not to play: some of it is burnout, some know their chosen career path wouldn't work with D1 college athletics (such as nursing), some of it is the schools offered do not match the schools desired. If the later, the decision may have been made based on summer feedback from their coach or their club.

It is not uncommon for kids to want that big school experience for college and it doesn't coincide with the offers being made.

Exactly.

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I am not trying to start a debate here but I am curious if Pride parents are hearing anything from the club in terms of recruiting for 26s?

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Anonymous wrote:It's amusing how some people try to belittle an Ivy League education as if it's not the gold standard. Let's get real: the Ivy League isn't just about the name; it's about access to world-class resources, unparalleled networking, and a legacy of excellence that’s second to none.

Sure, a full-ride scholarship at a non-Ivy school is great, but it’s not exactly the same league, is it? An Ivy League degree is an investment in a future brimming with opportunities that simply can’t be matched elsewhere. From elite internships to connections with industry leaders, the benefits are endless.

And about the so-called debt. Many Ivy League students receive substantial financial aid, making their education surprisingly affordable. Besides, the earning potential and career trajectory post-Ivy often dwarf any initial costs.

So while it's endearing that some think avoiding debt is the ultimate goal, those of us with an Ivy education understand that we're playing a much more sophisticated game. Kudos to all parents with players stepping up to the next level, even if some might not fully appreciate or understand the value of an Ivy league education. IYKYK

this is response is why people hate on it so much - and that is coming from a parent that would have been thrilled with an Ivy opportunity for my daughter - such a shame that you read all of this as Ivy hate and then make such elitist statements

^100%.Give it a rest Harvard booster mom. If only you had a modicum of self awareness you’d not make statements like this.

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Anonymous wrote:To address the question about Heros Green, is it a down year for them? Judging is impossible until the entire recruiting cycle completes itself. It is a new world, and I'm betting you'll see more de-commitments and flips to another school than we've typically seen. I also expect some schools will add to their class late in the cycle when hurt players show themselves on the field.

Having said all that, looking at HG v CB, the approximate average lax rank of the schools the players have committed to is 49.35 HG v 43.6 CB. That's not much of a difference.

Given South Florida and Florida State are starting programs, I assigned them both an equal ranking of 60. HG has two kids going there, and CB has 2 kids going to FSU. I think CB has committed 20 and HG has committed 14. So there's a difference there. If one assumes HG had multiple players out with injuries, then where they ultimately commit will adjust their average.

Looking at the top 12 players for each club (in terms of college lax ranking), HG has an average of 40.74, and CB has an average of 23.83. Kudos to CB.

Consider that two of HG top 12 players are going to South Florida, which has been given an average ranking of 60 for this analysis. I think South Florida will be much better than 60, so take it all with a grain of salt. If we throw out the two USF players and go with the following two players, their top 12 average goes to 44.58.

If you look at the rest of the roster that has committed, you see the average CB commit is about 70 and HG is 92.

For comparison, MD Black's 17 commits overall average is 26, the top 12 is 13.75, and the second group is 53.5.

Before people trash one school v another school, HG has 3 AAC, 5 ACC, 1 ASUN, 3 Big 10, 1 Big East, 1 CAA, 1 Patriot. Capital Blue has 4 ACC, 2 Big 10, 1 Big East, 1 Big South, 1 CAA, 8 Ivy, 3 Patriot.

So what does all this mean? Zip.

Nada, because clubs/teams don't get recruited; players do.

If you are a top player, it probably doesn't matter all that much which top club you play for because you'll have all your options open and only limited by your grades and budget. If you are on the second half of the roster you'll likely have to be more strategic in evaluating college lax vs. college degree vs. budget. AND....that's ok.

To suggest any of these results are bad is brain-dead nonsense.

They've all done exceptionally well. Clearly, Capital "Little Ivy" Blue is the place to be if you want to go to an IVY league school but that's about way more than just lacrosse. Again, thinking that any of these results are bad blows my mind.

I do wonder if Capital Blue requires a pre-SAT score and tax returns as part of its tryout process. (Stop, I'm kidding. Lighten up.)

One more time for the trolls in the back. ALL OF THESE RESULTS ARE CRAZY IMPRESSIVE. To the parents/players who are still available, keep grinding.

This is good work. Nice post.

A quibble on the potential future of the USF program versus FSU. Based on overall resources, sports commitment, and academic breadth, I would place my bets on FSU becoming more relevant, more quickly, and more permanently--similar to Clemson's trajectory--than I would on USF. Guessing 50-60 is fair for both for now. Expect FSU to be top 25 in 2-3 years.

I have heard USF is giving out full ride schollies to 2026's under the new NIL agreement. Not knowing their situation, 4 years of $0 for college with no debt to pursue an advanced degree and maybe the HG kids are a bit smarter than those Ivy Blues who will likely come out deep in debt or with multiple mortgages on those Alexandria and Potomac mansions after only 4 years. So it has hard to evaluate the situation with limited facts. Congrats to anyone who gets the chance to play at the next level. My point is just that there may be more to a situation when you compare where a kid goes to school and that should always be considered.

The bolded comment is hilarious. You clearly don’t have a kid on Capital or in DC area privates. Private school families’ HHI is minimum $600,000 to several million, without even factoring net worth. No one is making their kid pay for college or taking out an extra mortgage. These girls don't need scholarship money and when they graduate with no debt, an ivy degree, and ivy connections, they’ll be set to follow in their parents’ footsteps. Why exactly did you think people focused on ivies from the start? They know how it works.

+1000 Ivy families aren’t adding any debt on themselves or their kids.

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Pretty ignorant comment. Cap families don’t all make a million and belong to country clubs. They pursue Ivies for the education, the future, and in some cases the financial aid that is extremely generous.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not trying to start a debate here but I am curious if Pride parents are hearing anything from the club in terms of recruiting for 26s?

I would be interested to know how the rest of Cap Orange is doing, Pride and Stars? Legit question to ask.
Focusing on D3? NESCAC?

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Anonymous wrote:I am not trying to start a debate here but I am curious if Pride parents are hearing anything from the club in terms of recruiting for 26s?

Yes.

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Add Capital blue goalie BUCKNELL! Go Bisons!
Add Skywalker Blue Marquette

Only a measly 3% of high school lacrosse players actually make it to play Division 1 in college. Seriously, let that sink in before you start tearing apart a family's choice or a player's decision to attend a particular school!


💙Capital Blue 2026 USCLUBLAX Rank #7
1 West Point ARMY M
1 W&M A
1 Mercer A
1 Columbia D
1 Columbia D
1 Duke M
1 Dartmouth D
1 Yale A
1 Yale M/D
1 Princeton Left A
1 Harvard M/D/A/draw
1 Harvard M/A/D
1 Denver Draw/M
1 Michigan D
1 Virginia Tech A
1 Florida State Goalie
1 Florida State Draw/M
1 Holy Cross A
1 OREGON A
1 Bucknell Goalie
1

Capital Orange 2026🧡 USCLUBLAX RANK #63
1 Colgate M
1 William & Mary D
1 Elon University M
1 Boston University M

M&D 2026 🖤 USCLUBLAX Rank #3
1 Saint Joseph University D
1 Arizona State D
1 UMBC D
1 JMU M
1 Clemson M
1 Florida M
1 Florida M
1 UVA D
1 Syracuse A
1 Syracuse
1 Notre Dame M
1 Ohio State A
1 Boston College A
1 West Point Army A
1 West Point Army D
1 Navy
1 Denver A

M&D RED 🎈USClublax Rank #36
1 UMASS-Lowell D
1 West Point Army D
1 Hofstra M
1 Monmouth M
1 Pitt Goalie*
1 Liberty A
1 Bryant A
1 UMBC M
1 UNC- Charlotte

Hero Green 2026💚 USCLUBAX RANK #5
1 Virginia Tech
1 Louisville M
1 Campbell University
1 Georgetown goalie*
1 Maryland
1 Univeristy of South Florida
1 University of South Florida
1 Virginia Tech
1 Oregon *goalie
1 Maryland A/M
1 Navy
1 Boston College
1 Vanderbilt
1 Kennesaw

CAVLAX ELITE 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #40
1 Virginia Tech D
1 George Mason M
1 UNC - Chapel Hill D
1 UVA M
1 Navy
1 Rhode Island
1 Kennesaw State
1 Christopher Newport

Skywalkers Blue🩵2026 RANK #21
1 Marquette
1 Mercer
1 Cincinnati
1 Saint Joseph
1 UNC - Charlotte
1 Georgetown D
1 Brown
1 Princeton
1 Villanova
1 USC
1 UPENN
1 Ohio State
1 Georgetown
1 Clemson
1 USC goalie*

Skywalkers 2026 White
1 Mercyhurst
1 High Point goalie*
1 Stanford
1 Rollins
1 Roanoke
1 LaSalle
1 Jacksonville goalie*

TLC RED 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #28
1 UNC- Charlotte
1 University of Richmond M
1 Princeton
1 John Hopkins M
1 Monmouth D
1 St Mary's College A
1 St Mary's College A

Integrity Green 2026🌿USCLUBLAX RANK #25
1 UPenn goalie*
1 UVA goalie *
1 Virginia Tech
1 West Point Army
1 Davidson
1 HPU

HOCO 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #43
1 Ohio State Goalie
1 Duke Goalie

Pride Black NOVA Loudon (2026) Rank #72
1 SCAD *goalie

YJMA🐝 Rank #130
1 UNC Charlotte A
1 Brown M/D

3D Mid-Atlantic ? Need team Ranking?
1 Louisville A
1 Elon D

⭐️ STARS ⭐️ 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK 148
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Added for Interest & Curiosity
Committments for #1, # 2 & #4 ranked teams for 2026

Yellow Jacket Manning #1 Ranked 2026
1 Rutgers
1 UVA
1 Quinnipiac
1 Vanderbilt
1 Vanderbilt
1 Florida State
1 Florida State
1 Florida State
1 Florida State
1 Georgtown
1 Maryland
1 UNC
1 JHU
1 BC
1 BC
1 Florida
1 Harvard


LI Top Guns Black 2026 #2 Rank
1 Michigan
1 Fairfield
1 Arizona State
1 Drexel
1 UVA
1 Dartmouth
1 Stanford
1 UMass
1 Princeton
1 Duke
1 Yale
1 Northwestern
1 Northwestern
1 BC
1 High Point

ACES Elite US Clublax Ranked #4
1 Temple
1 Florida State
1 StonyBrook
1 Fairfield
1 Siena
1 University of Albany
1 Penn State
1 University of Cincinnati
1 UNC - Chapel Hill
1 UNC - Chapel Hill
1 University of Florida
1 ASU

Add Radford commit for Pride Black (defender)

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Anonymous wrote:For those that decide not to play: some of it is burnout, some know their chosen career path wouldn't work with D1 college athletics (such as nursing), some of it is the schools offered do not match the schools desired. If the later, the decision may have been made based on summer feedback from their coach or their club.

It is not uncommon for kids to want that big school experience for college and it doesn't coincide with the offers being made.

Nursing? Come on, it’s 2024. Let’s not set a sexist low bar please. More like Medical school or STEM PhD.

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Anonymous wrote:For those that decide not to play: some of it is burnout, some know their chosen career path wouldn't work with D1 college athletics (such as nursing), some of it is the schools offered do not match the schools desired. If the later, the decision may have been made based on summer feedback from their coach or their club.

It is not uncommon for kids to want that big school experience for college and it doesn't coincide with the offers being made.

Nursing? Come on, it’s 2024. Let’s not set a sexist low bar please. More like Medical school or STEM PhD.

You are the one that made it sexist. I said nursing from personal experience of an old teammate who was told she couldn't do nursing and play lacrosse.

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Anonymous wrote:For those that decide not to play: some of it is burnout, some know their chosen career path wouldn't work with D1 college athletics (such as nursing), some of it is the schools offered do not match the schools desired. If the later, the decision may have been made based on summer feedback from their coach or their club.

It is not uncommon for kids to want that big school experience for college and it doesn't coincide with the offers being made.

Nursing? Come on, it’s 2024. Let’s not set a sexist low bar please. More like Medical school or STEM PhD.

You are a straight-up asshat for your ignorant comment why is it an issue if someone wants to go into nursing?

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Anonymous wrote:For those that decide not to play: some of it is burnout, some know their chosen career path wouldn't work with D1 college athletics (such as nursing), some of it is the schools offered do not match the schools desired. If the later, the decision may have been made based on summer feedback from their coach or their club.

It is not uncommon for kids to want that big school experience for college and it doesn't coincide with the offers being made.

Nursing? Come on, it’s 2024. Let’s not set a sexist low bar please. More like Medical school or STEM PhD.

You are the one that made it sexist. I said nursing from personal experience of an old teammate who was told she couldn't do nursing and play lacrosse.

My DD wants to be a nurse and she turned down several D1 offers while she was going through her process because they would not allow nursing as a major. The fact is most D1 schools will not allow it as a major since clinicals would interfere with junior and senior years. They try and convince the girls to go the route of kinesiology or PT instead.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not trying to start a debate here but I am curious if Pride parents are hearing anything from the club in terms of recruiting for 26s?

I would be interested to know how the rest of Cap Orange is doing, Pride and Stars? Legit question to ask.
Focusing on D3? NESCAC?

I think some Cap Orange were thinking D3/NESCAC the whole time maybe shooting for some high academic D1 but once that didn't happen fine with D3 options. I also think the parents may have known that the whole time and were just allowing the girls to shoot for the stars.

I think there are plenty of girls who may not want to go a high academic route and are still chasing some D1, D2 or D3 opportunities.

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty ignorant comment. Cap families don’t all make a million and belong to country clubs. They pursue Ivies for the education, the future, and in some cases the financial aid that is extremely generous.

This is not helping your elitist statements. No we do not all make millions and belong to country clubs but we also are not qualifying for financial aid either so give that argument a rest. Again nobody was hating on an Ivy education simply pointed out that it was not for everyone. Signed - the parent who would have loved that opportunity for my daughter

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Add Radford commit for Pride Black (defender)


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