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04/07/2025 19:11

Subject: VHSL Girls Lacrosse 2025

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Anonymous wrote:Battlefield's strength of schedule was surely helped by that 14-9 loss to YT.

And by beating up on the Sister-of-the-Poor 5A JV squads. They beat a Lightridge team who’s best commit is going to Radford, the same Radford team ranked 128th out of 131 teams. If you’ve ever seen teams play at this level in D1 you know how painful those games are to watch. Lightridge may be tops in 5A but that’s not saying a lot.

I’d like to better understand what teams are considered on top and who should be on everyone’s schedule? Looking at prior comments, some contradictions on who has a tough schedule and who doesn’t.

This year it’s really YT and everyone else. There are not as many elite teams as there have been in past years like YT, Woodson, Madison, Oakton, Riverside, Dominion, etc. With the drop off in numbers playing and talent level there seems to be more parity among average teams.

Can you provide a link to the data that shows a drop off in numbers playing? There is no way to compare talent level across tens of teams over time so I won't even ask for support on that point.

Having had several daughters play over a span of years, I have to agree the numbers are down. You don’t have to look any further than rec lacrosse to understand it’s not the same.

When my first daughter played there were 3-5 teams in each age group. And making the A team was a big deal. You really had to be a strong player to make this team. Now, our rec program is lucky to field 1 team in each age bracket. None in the A division. Everyone makes the team, which hurts the players mixing such wide skill sets. From our experience, the numbers and talent have fallen way off. It’s sad to see at the youth level because this feeds future high school and college programs.

This is impacting high school teams and games. My first who played had players cut from JV. It was hard to make varsity. There were 4 teams in her district that could compete on any given night and win. Today, districts have 1, maybe two teams, that are competitive with one another. Go to many games and players on the field struggle with the basics of passing and catching. Teams now can barely fill a varsity roster, often filling them with athletes who have not played the sport. There are fewer JV teams and some JV games are 7v7.

I wish I could say club has filled the void, but the reality is local high school club teams are not competing at the same level as in the past. The high water mark for local high school club teams may have been the 2023 class when both Capital Blue and Pride Black were ranked in the top 10 at one point. Those two teams alone probably sent 30+ players to D1 programs from that class.

US Lacrosse may have stats on the games growth, but locally in Northern VA the numbers have been down from our personal experience. And with it the talent as well.

Is your experience based on the Concorde division (Vienna rec)? Where my daughter is at, it’s the opposite scenario. The rec program could barely field a competitive A team many years ago and now they have multiple teams at the higher levels. These things tend to go in cycles.