2027 Girls Lacrosse

[Anonymous]

The 25 Capital blue team is not #1. They are not even top 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 25 Capital blue team is not #1. They are not even top 5.

US Club Lacrosse ranks them as #6 ahead of Skywalkers, Steps, Heros and many more top clubs. On the other hand Pride Black ‘25 isn’t even in top 50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 25 Capital blue team is not #1. They are not even top 5.

US Club Lacrosse ranks them as #6 ahead of Skywalkers, Steps, Heros and many more top clubs. On the other hand Pride Black ‘25 isn’t even in top 50.

Well to be fair, 3/4 of the Capital Blue squad are Pride alums. Lets not give Capital credit for that - they've done a good job at cherry picking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 25 Capital blue team is not #1. They are not even top 5.

US Club Lacrosse ranks them as #6 ahead of Skywalkers, Steps, Heros and many more top clubs. On the other hand Pride Black ‘25 isn’t even in top 50.

Well to be fair, 3/4 of the Capital Blue squad are Pride alums. Lets not give Capital credit for that - they've done a good job at cherry picking.

If some of the Capital 25 player were with Pride, thuestion. Then why the mass exodus from Pride to Capital ? Serious question..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The 25 Capital blue team is not #1. They are not even top 5.

US Club Lacrosse ranks them as #6 ahead of Skywalkers, Steps, Heros and many more top clubs. On the other hand Pride Black ‘25 isn’t even in top 50.

Well to be fair, 3/4 of the Capital Blue squad are Pride alums. Lets not give Capital credit for that - they've done a good job at cherry picking.

If some of the Capital 25 player were with Pride, thuestion. Then why the mass exodus from Pride to Capital ? Serious question..

Honestly lets keep up people. The 27 girls lacrosse thread is not the right place to answer your question about the 25s. Please check 23 recruiting or 24 recruiting. Serious answer.

[Anonymous]

Fair points made in these comments. Historically Pride has been a primary feeder into Capital. Capital has relied heavily on the talent Pride develops through MS to quickly field competitive HS teams. This has been going on for years, but it seems more recently Pride players are making up a bigger percentage of Capital teams. Pride is clearly developing the talent, Capital is doing a great job of taking this talent and positioning it for college recruiting. Capital has the history, college coach connections, former college players to leverage, and importantly a well-thought out process to get the talent Pride is developing recruited. Both clubs are really helping each other by playing needed roles. What is funny is the Capital parents who come on this board to bash Pride are really biting the hand that feeds Capital. Capital is not developing the talent overnight, this talent is developed over years. Capital is playing the last mile of a long race and does a great job at it. Both clubs need each other, but if Pride ever makes recruiting a priority things may get interesting. Seems like both clubs are happy with the roles they play though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fair points made in these comments. Historically Pride has been a primary feeder into Capital. Capital has relied heavily on the talent Pride develops through MS to quickly field competitive HS teams. This has been going on for years, but it seems more recently Pride players are making up a bigger percentage of Capital teams. Pride is clearly developing the talent, Capital is doing a great job of taking this talent and positioning it for college recruiting. Capital has the history, college coach connections, former college players to leverage, and importantly a well-thought out process to get the talent Pride is developing recruited. Both clubs are really helping each other by playing needed roles. What is funny is the Capital parents who come on this board to bash Pride are really biting the hand that feeds Capital. Capital is not developing the talent overnight, this talent is developed over years. Capital is playing the last mile of a long race and does a great job at it. Both clubs need each other, but if Pride ever makes recruiting a priority things may get interesting. Seems like both clubs are happy with the roles they play though.

“Historically” like in just the past two years?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fair points made in these comments. Historically Pride has been a primary feeder into Capital. Capital has relied heavily on the talent Pride develops through MS to quickly field competitive HS teams. This has been going on for years, but it seems more recently Pride players are making up a bigger percentage of Capital teams. Pride is clearly developing the talent, Capital is doing a great job of taking this talent and positioning it for college recruiting. Capital has the history, college coach connections, former college players to leverage, and importantly a well-thought out process to get the talent Pride is developing recruited. Both clubs are really helping each other by playing needed roles. What is funny is the Capital parents who come on this board to bash Pride are really biting the hand that feeds Capital. Capital is not developing the talent overnight, this talent is developed over years. Capital is playing the last mile of a long race and does a great job at it. Both clubs need each other, but if Pride ever makes recruiting a priority things may get interesting. Seems like both clubs are happy with the roles they play though.

This will continue as Stars continues its slide down, less and less talent from those teams. The development is occurring at Pride and its reflected in the rosters.

[Anonymous]

Stars 27 has thrown incredible resources to that team. (Kathy, Mindy, Bill and Cookie K Carr. The 4 coaches working with that team are top notch. And KC was hired by the St. James to replace SW and lay groundwork to recruit and create a 27 St. James high school team that will be competitive to Capital. She’s running those weekly clinics to not only improve the 27s, but also to figure out which ones she’s going to try to keep come summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stars 27 has thrown incredible resources to that team. (Kathy, Mindy, Bill and Cookie K Carr. The 4 coaches working with that team are top notch. And KC was hired by the St. James to replace SW and lay groundwork to recruit and create a 27 St. James high school team that will be competitive to Capital. She’s running those weekly clinics to not only improve the 27s, but also to figure out which ones she’s going to try to keep come summer.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stars 27 has thrown incredible resources to that team. (Kathy, Mindy, Bill and Cookie K Carr. The 4 coaches working with that team are top notch. And KC was hired by the St. James to replace SW and lay groundwork to recruit and create a 27 St. James high school team that will be competitive to Capital. She’s running those weekly clinics to not only improve the 27s, but also to figure out which ones she’s going to try to keep come summer.

The clinics are great, but she already know which ones she wants to keep

[Anonymous]

Bill is not a great coach, he always inherits players so it looks like he is great, but he is not. He just hams it up with the parents and players and pretends to be everyone’s friend.

[Anonymous]

Heck ya. KC isn’t the only one shopping the 27s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fair points made in these comments. Historically Pride has been a primary feeder into Capital. Capital has relied heavily on the talent Pride develops through MS to quickly field competitive HS teams. This has been going on for years, but it seems more recently Pride players are making up a bigger percentage of Capital teams. Pride is clearly developing the talent, Capital is doing a great job of taking this talent and positioning it for college recruiting. Capital has the history, college coach connections, former college players to leverage, and importantly a well-thought out process to get the talent Pride is developing recruited. Both clubs are really helping each other by playing needed roles. What is funny is the Capital parents who come on this board to bash Pride are really biting the hand that feeds Capital. Capital is not developing the talent overnight, this talent is developed over years. Capital is playing the last mile of a long race and does a great job at it. Both clubs need each other, but if Pride ever makes recruiting a priority things may get interesting. Seems like both clubs are happy with the roles they play though.

Pride had 1 player on Capital 23 Blue and that team was highly competitive and had great recruiting results.

To say Capital “relies” on Pride players, or their development, is an overstatement.

Capital offers a ton of development for HS players who have come up through the ranks of various DMV programs. Great development led by former D1 coaches, All American players, Team USA players, D1 national championship winners, and Tewaraton finalists.

Would Capital teams be better with Pride players? Maybe. But not dependent.

Capital succeeds for the reasons you note and will always have great / talented players turn out for the program from MoCo, VA and DC. Those players pick Capital over other programs because of the proven recruiting track record.

FTR there were plenty of Pride parents and others on these boards claiming the Pride 23s were going to ruin Capital. That didn’t happen.

To suggest there’s only been Pride bashing by Capital parents here is a selective view of history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fair points made in these comments. Historically Pride has been a primary feeder into Capital. Capital has relied heavily on the talent Pride develops through MS to quickly field competitive HS teams. This has been going on for years, but it seems more recently Pride players are making up a bigger percentage of Capital teams. Pride is clearly developing the talent, Capital is doing a great job of taking this talent and positioning it for college recruiting. Capital has the history, college coach connections, former college players to leverage, and importantly a well-thought out process to get the talent Pride is developing recruited. Both clubs are really helping each other by playing needed roles. What is funny is the Capital parents who come on this board to bash Pride are really biting the hand that feeds Capital. Capital is not developing the talent overnight, this talent is developed over years. Capital is playing the last mile of a long race and does a great job at it. Both clubs need each other, but if Pride ever makes recruiting a priority things may get interesting. Seems like both clubs are happy with the roles they play though.

“Historically” like in just the past two years?

Exactly. Past 2 years is it. Parents need to stop trying to re-write Capital history.