Capital Orange Parents - If you could do it all over again

[Anonymous]

The best parents to respond are 24s and before because the end game is to be a rock star in HS and get on the field in college. There are always a handful of orange team players who are impact players at their HS, but parents should look where those girls go to school and note the level of competition to get a full picture. Yes orange team players have gone to play in college and get to end up getting recruited. But their is so much in between…do they play the big games vs CT Griz or Monsters, where another club’s A team will get those games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you could do it all over again would you have chosen an A team at another club (MC Elite, Pride, VA Metro etc) over Capital Orange?

I think for Capital Orange the tough question is do you go Pride Black or Orange? For the 25s and 26s both are pretty close in talent but who knows how Pride's recruiting efforts will evolve? Otherwise I would go with Orange over Va Metro, MC Elite etc. These teams typically play in lower brackets tournaments and it seems like Capital is a better run organization.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you could do it all over again would you have chosen an A team at another club (MC Elite, Pride, VA Metro etc) over Capital Orange?

I think for Capital Orange the tough question is do you go Pride Black or Orange? For the 25s and 26s both are pretty close in talent but who knows how Pride's recruiting efforts will evolve? Otherwise I would go with Orange over Va Metro, MC Elite etc. These teams typically play in lower brackets tournaments and it seems like Capital is a better run organization.

I think this is right on. If you can find a way to get the girls that don't make Capital Blue together (21-40) and decide on one team (Pride Black or Cap Orange), it would be a very solid team.

[Anonymous]

How many girls (generally speaking) tryout for Cap Blue and how many girls do they take?

[Anonymous]

the focus should not be placed on records. the focus should be on development and exposure. I would look at the programs and see who will be coaching your daughters. this is how they will improve. next is the exposure, you have to play in the upper brackets to be seen at tournaments. there are multiple all american division 1 players who did not play on the Top team in their club history. I do not believe the Charlotte North played on M&D or Capital or YJ. Obviously that is a stretch as an example but nevertheless accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many girls (generally speaking) tryout for Cap Blue and how many girls do they take?

North of 125 usually tryout for roughly 22 spots for Blue and Orange.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many girls (generally speaking) tryout for Cap Blue and how many girls do they take?

North of 125 usually tryout for roughly 22 spots for Blue and Orange.

Need to further break this down. Of the say 125 girls trying out, about 30-45 are well known already by Capital coaches, staff from the MS teams, Clinics, Healthy Baller and so on. In reality, of the 22 Capital Blue roster spots, there's maybe 5-6 open slots up for grabs. The rest are already known ahead of time. If you get to tryouts and no one at Capital knows who you are, you need to be Charlotte North.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you could do it all over again would you have chosen an A team at another club (MC Elite, Pride, VA Metro etc) over Capital Orange?

I think for Capital Orange the tough question is do you go Pride Black or Orange? For the 25s and 26s both are pretty close in talent but who knows how Pride's recruiting efforts will evolve? Otherwise I would go with Orange over Va Metro, MC Elite etc. These teams typically play in lower brackets tournaments and it seems like Capital is a better run organization.

I think this is right on. If you can find a way to get the girls that don't make Capital Blue together (21-40) and decide on one team (Pride Black or Cap Orange), it would be a very solid team.

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[Anonymous]

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PP, who answered yes.. are you still there or has you DD graduated? I’d say 2025 and 2026 is too early to tell, and Orange is better then the local teams you mentioned.

Ok. Capital Orange is not better than all local teams mentioned (and not mentioned). Lets remember that at the 25 level Cap Orange team lost to YJ Mid-Atlantic which didnt' exist 18 months prior.

Oh Please! The YJMA 25 team got lucky 1 game.
Look at them now. Their A Team is ranked 147 and their B team is ranked 196.
Capital 25 orange is ranked 80.

Don’t even try to compare a low tier club like YJMA to an established proven club like Capital. They are not even close and never will be.

And YJMA lost their best player to Cap Blue once the summer was over.

[Anonymous]

Oh no, the YJ girl couldn’t have gone to Capital! Capital only takes girls from Pride. I read it here on multiple threads! Lol!

As for VA Metro, 3D and their parent corp bought them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How many girls (generally speaking) tryout for Cap Blue and how many girls do they take?

If you get to tryouts and no one at Capital knows who you are, you need to be Charlotte North.

Not true at all. Multiple players on 25 Cap Blue team didn't play on Pride or Stars or BLC in middle and are key contributors to the team. Most of them did go to one or two precamp clinics the summer before though.

[Anonymous]

Orange teams ranking and how well an organization appears to run does not make a difference.

Coach and quality of games. Check the data from Cap Orange over the years. How have Cap Orange players faired with recruiting over the years?

If you are a top player at your HS, or you want to be, and you settle for Cap Orange your stock goes down. Would always take an A team over Cap Orange.

[Anonymous]

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Not true at all. Multiple players on 25 Cap Blue team didn't play on Pride or Stars or BLC in middle and are key contributors to the team. Most of them did go to one or two precamp clinics the summer before though.

Capital knew who they were, point made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Orange teams ranking and how well an organization appears to run does not make a difference.

Coach and quality of games. Check the data from Cap Orange over the years. How have Cap Orange players faired with recruiting over the years?

If you are a top player at your HS, or you want to be, and you settle for Cap Orange your stock goes down. Would always take an A team over Cap Orange.

These are all good points, but which local DMV A team would you recommend over CLC Orange?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Orange teams ranking and how well an organization appears to run does not make a difference.

Coach and quality of games. Check the data from Cap Orange over the years. How have Cap Orange players faired with recruiting over the years?

If you are a top player at your HS, or you want to be, and you settle for Cap Orange your stock goes down. Would always take an A team over Cap Orange.

These are all good points, but which local DMV A team would you recommend over CLC Orange?

It was a good point about players 21-40 playing on either Pride Black or Capital Orange. It seems that that issue for the last few year classes is that after Capital Blue takes their 20, then the next 20 go to Pride Black, Capital Orange, MC Elite, 3D, etc. If the next 20 played for Capital Orange, they would probably be ranked high enough to get in some A- brackets, and they would have the support of a better recruiting infrastructure. If Pride could improve their recruiting (which they seem to be doing with the 24's), Pride could easily take that next 20.