2023 Girls Recruiting
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Anonymous
here are no 22 Blues verbally committed to Michigan or Harvard. The one verbally committed to UVA has at least as much to do with Kathy Jenkins being her HS coach as anything Capital did. The Navy commit spent a year on Orange. The reality is both 22 teams should have been at their best this past summer tournament season. These are the facts, easily checked: Blue could barely win one game, if that, a tournament. Orange won almost all of their games and, as a previous poster said, came in second out of at least 30 teams at the Mid Atlantic Summer Club Championships in their division. They probably would have won that too, if they had their actual coach coaching them. Yes, Blue and Orange are in different brackets at the tournaments but when Blue does not win a single game at the Mid-Atlantic and Orange comes in second out of 30, at a minimum I think it's safe to say the two teams were comparable. |
Anonymous
The orange team is B they have a tryout and choose and A and B and then tell they B players they are just as good. Talk about participation trophies. |
Anonymous
I am not a Capital parent, so have no skin in this game. The comment about a B team being as good as an A team caught my attention. This poster notes the facts support their position. It is true the A team did not win a tournament game at MA. It is true the B team won all of their games before getting beaten badly in the championship game. The facts do support this. What the poster neglects to include in their facts is that the level of competition was night and day. The A team played the #1, #5 and #37 ranked teams during this stretch. The B team played the #19 (twice), #46, #86, and #139 ranked teams during the tournament. Add to this the A team lost by 2-3 goals in each game to top ranked teams. Seems competitive, which is what you want at this level. College coaches don't care about wins and losses. It's great to hear varying opinions on this site, but when posting it would be helpful to share the entire story. |
Anonymous
| Is there really a debate? If the B team is = to the A team? Are the coaches at Capital that poor at evaluating talent that they can’t tell or are the B team parents delusional. I will go with the latter. |
Anonymous
| ...and back to the 2023s. Two Capital players verballed to ECU and Pitt. |
Anonymous
| Not taking anything away from Capital, but staying with the theme of complimenting players for committing instead of breaking them down, looks like VA Metro committed another D1 player, this time to Cincinnati. Seems like they are quietly placing their kids to appropriate matches that compliment academic and lax. Kudos to another NOVA team. Still have not heard anything from pride. Congrats to all the 2023 players regardless of what club they play for |
Anonymous
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Is there really a debate? If the B team is = to the A team? Are the coaches at Capital that poor at evaluating talent that they can’t tell or are the B team parents delusional. I will go with the latter.
The A teams and the B teams are never equal, even in the strongest of age groups. Every year there is a portion of the roster at the top of the Orange team and the bottom of the Blue team (some years maybe 5 or 6, some years 2 or 3) that could have gone a different way but the teams themselves are never equal. |
Anonymous
Great comment. Kudos to all these girls and I wish them success!! |
Anonymous
What is ECU? That’s a college? |
Anonymous
| Eastern Carolina. Big school. Into athletics, D1, just not a household name. Kids I know who go there love it. Congrats to her. |
Anonymous
| If you are from southern Virginia, NC and SC - ECU is a household name. Congratulations to her - huge D1 sports program and she will love it. |
Anonymous
Agreed. Becoming more and more popular it seems. Tough schedule with always facing Duke, UNC, Florida. But only heading into year 5 this spring and have been showing some potential. |
Anonymous
Very poor choice academically - it has an acceptance rate of 79%. Students that get into East Carolina have an average SAT score between 1040-1190 or an average ACT score of 20-24. The regular admissions application deadline for East Carolina is rolling (bad indicator). |
Anonymous
Whether it is a poor choice or not really depends on the academic make up of the particular student. Or, put less charitably -- STFU, snob. |
Anonymous
| Someone is just jealous that another player is good enough to play Division I and their daughter is not. Must be a Pride parent. |