lax culture from an insider

[Anonymous]

Question about girls' lax clubs - taking driving distance and effort out of it completely, if a middle school girl had an offer from a top DC area team (Stars) and a top Baltimore area team (Skywalkers), which one would help her grow and develop into a better lax player?

[Anonymous]

Skywalkers.... Ask current past families about it

[Anonymous]

might explain why so many mater dei kids have left club blue for the Crabs or Mad Lax.

CB has always taken a bizarre approach.

Fathers are way too involved and if you decide your son doesn't want to attend GP for high school, your son will start to see less playing time and individual instruction.

[Anonymous]

Very few CB kids go to Madlax. Some go to Crabs, some go to Balckwolf, some go to VLC. Most of the Catholic families despise the Madlax owner and would never send their kid to his club.

In HS, those kids most play for the Prep club team.

[Anonymous]

Kind of sad there are few if any clubs that are inclusive of kids who just want to play and develop toward high school. The political sideshows with these clubs being feeders for some prep school or being favored to a town, etc. Just exhausting. Where can I pay $800 or whatever just for my kid to play lacrosse dammit? He's in 5th grade!!! We don't care if he is on some fast track or not. Freedom sounded good, now it is gone. Breakout sounded like that and now gone too. Where else? No NextLevel suggestions please. I don't care about getting more connected to Landon or Bullis for school eventually. Don't care about that. Suggestions?

[Anonymous]

First of all, none of these clubs are "feeders" to a HS. If your son just wants to play lacrosse, he can always play just rec.

If you/he wants more reps and it sounds like you live in Montgomery County, you could try Performance. The talent isn't very strong, but the guys who run it are good guys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of sad there are few if any clubs that are inclusive of kids who just want to play and develop toward high school. The political sideshows with these clubs being feeders for some prep school or being favored to a town, etc. Just exhausting. Where can I pay $800 or whatever just for my kid to play lacrosse dammit? He's in 5th grade!!! We don't care if he is on some fast track or not. Freedom sounded good, now it is gone. Breakout sounded like that and now gone too. Where else? No NextLevel suggestions please. I don't care about getting more connected to Landon or Bullis for school eventually. Don't care about that. Suggestions?

If you're in the NoVa area there are clubs such as EKLC, Evergreen and NovaWest that aren't as competitive as some of the "top level" club programs out there. At the 5th grade level, it should be more about skills development anyway.

[Anonymous]

Next Level is run by the Heights coaching staff now.

Mad Lax seems to send kids all over to high school - mainly privates but also has a fair amount of kids who just want to play for their public school team.

[Anonymous]

Madlax has a high percentage of public school kids, especially on their B teams.

[Anonymous]

[quoteVery few CB kids go to Madlax. Some go to Crabs, some go to Balckwolf, some go to VLC. Most of the Catholic families despise the Madlax owner and would never send their kid to his club.

In HS, those kids most play for the Prep club team.

Dude you are obsessed with the Catholic league - its weird

I despise Mad Lax but its has nothing to do with my family being Catholic and I belong to BS.

[Anonymous]

Wow lots of bethesda 2020s goin to Next Level they will be loaded this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow lots of bethesda 2020s goin to Next Level they will be loaded this year

Since they haven't had tryouts yet, not sure how you know this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of sad there are few if any clubs that are inclusive of kids who just want to play and develop toward high school. The political sideshows with these clubs being feeders for some prep school or being favored to a town, etc. Just exhausting. Where can I pay $800 or whatever just for my kid to play lacrosse dammit? He's in 5th grade!!! We don't care if he is on some fast track or not. Freedom sounded good, now it is gone. Breakout sounded like that and now gone too. Where else? No NextLevel suggestions please. I don't care about getting more connected to Landon or Bullis for school eventually. Don't care about that. Suggestions?

Bethesda Travel would work but only through 8th grade. Most of the issues people are talking about refer to HS club teams where there are less options for having the kind of experience you are looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow lots of bethesda 2020s goin to Next Level they will be loaded this year

Since they haven't had tryouts yet, not sure how you know this

Many of their kids were at there pre tryout camp.Plus my son talked to his friends and many said they were switching

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:[quoteVery few CB kids go to Madlax. Some go to Crabs, some go to Balckwolf, some go to VLC. Most of the Catholic families despise the Madlax owner and would never send their kid to his club.

In HS, those kids most play for the Prep club team.

Dude you are obsessed with the Catholic league - its weird

I despise Mad Lax but its has nothing to do with my family being Catholic and I belong to BS.




I'm not the PP, but I think he/she wasn't referring to being Catholic and disliking Madlax. He's probably referring to the close-knit Catholic lax community and how few of them play for Madlax. I think it has a lot to do with Club Blue. The guys who run CB are tightly associated with Mater Dei and Prep and they don't have any love lost for Madlax or its owner. They probably don't care for the guy when they've coached against him either.

He does have a point. CB guys seem to go to Blackwolf and a few others but very few end up at Madlax. And those in HS appear to be loyal to the Prep team that plays out of season.