Club Lax- Summer Tournaments

[Anonymous]

How is Crabfeast going?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCE dominating what? 2025s in losers bracket. 2026s got bounced by the eight seed in opening round.

The posters who are chuckling about DCE or NL teams falling short in terms of wins/losses are losing sight of what matters in 9th and 10th grade travel lacrosse. It is INDIVIDUAL performance and showcasing that matters, not whether a team wins or loses. Sure, if a team loses all its games by big scores and generally stinks, then no college coach will go to watch them, and it generally is a bad experience and a waste of your family's time. But college coaches scout these games and could care less who wins the game or the tournament, they want to see the good players. So if your son is on a team that sweeps all its games and the Dads strut around like hot stuff, but your own son rarely gets on the field and/or is playing badly, then you should not be particularly excited about his status. And conversely, if your son is killing it and putting up great numbers, but the team lost game(s) that they coulda, woulda, shoulda won, who cares.
Winning means everything when you are representing your high school (and someday your college) team and helping to bring glory to your school. but bringing glory to DCE, 91, Madlax, or whatever greedy program you son plays for, is not the end game here.

This, a thousand times over. You might be the only sane person on this blog. Can we be friends?

[Anonymous]

It’s all the Oakton staff.

[Anonymous]

Top-tier (D1) college scouts rarely watch games that don’t involved top club teams. They might be walking by and watch from the corner of a field, and then walk on. And low-tier clubs rarely play those top-tier teams, even in the opening round of a tourney. So a college coach won’t get to see how a star player on a “meh” team could match up against some of the best to assess their ability to play at D1 (or D2 or D3). Does it happen on ocassion? Sure, but rarely.