VHSL Girls Lacrosse Spring 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 40k per you at least want bragging rights!

Wow….who on earth would pay that much to send their kid to a private HS?

We pay over 50K and it is worth every penny for our kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 40k per you at least want bragging rights!

Wow….who on earth would pay that much to send their kid to a private HS?

We pay over 50K and it is worth every penny for our kid.

Good for you. Considering both my kids went to publics and attended top universities I would say their taxpayer funded high school educations were worth every penny. Thank you for paying your property taxes and subsidizing my kids’ educations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 40k per you at least want bragging rights!

Wow….who on earth would pay that much to send their kid to a private HS?

We pay over 50K and it is worth every penny for our kid.

Why are you on here? Nobody cares about private school tuition. Do you also tell people your salary too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 40k per you at least want bragging rights!

Wow….who on earth would pay that much to send their kid to a private HS?

We pay over 50K and it is worth every penny for our kid.

Hey thats awesome. Good on you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For 40k per you at least want bragging rights!

Wow….who on earth would pay that much to send their kid to a private HS?

For people with real money, 50k is nothing. Some have 4 or 5 kids that go through the private high school system.

[Anonymous]

Back to lacrosse…does anyone know if Wakefield had to forfeit, or did the game just get cancelled? It seems like the school really has to work to be so consistently bad. Wouldn’t any school at least occasionally, by chance, have a decent team? If Wakefield isn’t willing to even be competitive, I’m not sure having a team is good for the girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dominion 16
Yorktown 3

Must be some good explanation for the laid an egg of the year award for Yorktown. That’s a drubbing…

Yorktown couldn't win a draw and had no answer for stopping the Dominion cutters. Dominion either scored easy goals or got a dozen 8 meter shots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dominion 16
Yorktown 3

Must be some good explanation for the laid an egg of the year award for Yorktown. That’s a drubbing…

I don’t think it’s as much a case of Yorktown laying an egg as it is Dominion is just a good team. No one should be surprised by this result. Riverside is down this season, but they and Dominion have consistently beaten Class 6 schools in the past. This will probably be Dominion’s last hurah, but they have a great chance to win four state championships in a row. Sadly lacrosse participation is falling off for these smaller schools to the point they can no longer field JV teams and if they can they sometimes play 7v7. Varsity teams are filled with students who want to play a sport but have little to no lacrosse experience. Riverside has played almost their entire season without their goalie and has had JV players fill in or defenders turn goalie over night. Hopefully participation climbs for these Class 4/5 schools and more players get involved with club lacrosse. Don’t sleep on Dominion this year. They are a good team, execute well, and have some talented college-bound players.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Back to lacrosse…does anyone know if Wakefield had to forfeit, or did the game just get cancelled? It seems like the school really has to work to be so consistently bad. Wouldn’t any school at least occasionally, by chance, have a decent team? If Wakefield isn’t willing to even be competitive, I’m not sure having a team is good for the girls.

Look. Wakefield never has a competitive team because girls lacrosse is an elitist north arlington sport. Starting with the arlington rec program, the sport is exclusively a north arlington game. All recruitment, all practices are in n arlington and only when the league needs game fields do they step foot
In south arlington. The county reinforces this by ignoring the middle schools
In south arlington by not providing goals for practice- all the fields in n arlington have goals on field- but ya can’t find one save two on the Wakefield
Campus albeit with holes in the net.

The lack of equity of play in the game is significant- by the time girls get to high school it is too late to start and be competitive with fx and n arlington students who have been playing for a decade both at rec and in club play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post has Oakton ranked #5 in the DMV, ahead of SSSA, Stone Ridge, St. John’s, and Paul VI.

What a joke SR and PVI would crush them

Yes the WP sports reporters don’t know a thing about girls hs lacrosse and the rankings clearly show that. WP in this case is not to be respected.

They highlight SSSA and Yorktown always because they are so not with the current vibes in Dc metro lacrosse. I mean who cares that Jenny tran had an acl injury does that mean her team gets empathy votes because she can’t train with them ?? And so tired of Kathy Jenkins. Boring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to lacrosse…does anyone know if Wakefield had to forfeit, or did the game just get cancelled? It seems like the school really has to work to be so consistently bad. Wouldn’t any school at least occasionally, by chance, have a decent team? If Wakefield isn’t willing to even be competitive, I’m not sure having a team is good for the girls.

Look. Wakefield never has a competitive team because girls lacrosse is an elitist north arlington sport. Starting with the arlington rec program, the sport is exclusively a north arlington game. All recruitment, all practices are in n arlington and only when the league needs game fields do they step foot
In south arlington. The county reinforces this by ignoring the middle schools
In south arlington by not providing goals for practice- all the fields in n arlington have goals on field- but ya can’t find one save two on the Wakefield
Campus albeit with holes in the net.

The lack of equity of play in the game is significant- by the time girls get to high school it is too late to start and be competitive with fx and n arlington students who have been playing for a decade both at rec and in club play.

+1 - 100 percent concur with this assessment. Wakefield might have a couple of club players on its team, while many (most? I'm not sure) of the players on Yorktown's team also play club. W-L also has a bunch who play on club teams. It makes a huge difference in terms of skills, obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back to lacrosse…does anyone know if Wakefield had to forfeit, or did the game just get cancelled? It seems like the school really has to work to be so consistently bad. Wouldn’t any school at least occasionally, by chance, have a decent team? If Wakefield isn’t willing to even be competitive, I’m not sure having a team is good for the girls.

Look. Wakefield never has a competitive team because girls lacrosse is an elitist north arlington sport. Starting with the arlington rec program, the sport is exclusively a north arlington game. All recruitment, all practices are in n arlington and only when the league needs game fields do they step foot
In south arlington. The county reinforces this by ignoring the middle schools
In south arlington by not providing goals for practice- all the fields in n arlington have goals on field- but ya can’t find one save two on the Wakefield
Campus albeit with holes in the net.

The lack of equity of play in the game is significant- by the time girls get to high school it is too late to start and be competitive with fx and n arlington students who have been playing for a decade both at rec and in club play.

What used to be Stars (now St. James) is based in Alexandria and Fort Hunt has always been a pretty good rec team. I don’t think demographics explain this.

[Anonymous]

Lines for games tonight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dominion 16
Yorktown 3

Must be some good explanation for the laid an egg of the year award for Yorktown. That’s a drubbing…

I don’t think it’s as much a case of Yorktown laying an egg as it is Dominion is just a good team. No one should be surprised by this result. Riverside is down this season, but they and Dominion have consistently beaten Class 6 schools in the past. This will probably be Dominion’s last hurah, but they have a great chance to win four state championships in a row. Sadly lacrosse participation is falling off for these smaller schools to the point they can no longer field JV teams and if they can they sometimes play 7v7. Varsity teams are filled with students who want to play a sport but have little to no lacrosse experience. Riverside has played almost their entire season without their goalie and has had JV players fill in or defenders turn goalie over night. Hopefully participation climbs for these Class 4/5 schools and more players get involved with club lacrosse. Don’t sleep on Dominion this year. They are a good team, execute well, and have some talented college-bound players.

Well said!

[Anonymous]

South Lakes vs Centreville seems to be the only game