Capital Tryouts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone crossing Stars off the list is a fool. As long as Kathy Jenkins is involved Stars will be a top program in the area. Just look what Kathy did with a weak Saints team this year. She usually manages to pull the Stars teams together by 8th grade too. She is worth the hassle of St James, she’s that good. She’s also still very closely aligned with Gussie Johns and Capital.

Sadly she can’t be cloned. So many Stars teams -just one KJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone crossing Stars off the list is a fool. As long as Kathy Jenkins is involved Stars will be a top program in the area. Just look what Kathy did with a weak Saints team this year. She usually manages to pull the Stars teams together by 8th grade too. She is worth the hassle of St James, she’s that good. She’s also still very closely aligned with Gussie Johns and Capital.

Sadly she can’t be cloned. So many Stars teams -just one KJ.

The optimism is to be applauded but as the poster above says, there's only 1 coach that still coaches SSSA and is getting close to retirement.

Now add in 2 really bad teams, the 27 and 28 A teams. Both of those teams lack quality players for a complete roster. They both went 1-7 in ngll with no new talent coming in to help. The 26 stars team was only good because the 3 top Pride players left in prep for Capital. Otherwise the 27 and 28 Stars teams are full of issues and not getting better. Wouldn't be surprised to see their top players all leave in the next 2 years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Email was a little too over the top praising Capital, a turn off. Read a lot like the fake BLC Stars partnership a few years back. How did that go? I am sure the BLC parent coaches and the few coaches who played in college want to “learn” from young adults and lower tier FCPS coaches. Maybe BLC will make some commission for sending players to HB. Don’t buy into people.

As you can see, these facts aren't well taken here. The same DA keeps commenting and posting about the 23s over and over. Here's a hint, we get it and congrats to those players, but who cares. Maryland clubs get that every year, year in and year out. But hey keep repeating yourself like the JB you are.

The BLC 28 team is worse than most low level rec teams. Pride has some talented teams and seems to develop the best right now. Stars is such a disaster, it's amazing players continue to go there and they continue to exist. If your top feeder clubs for MS all are on the decline and aren't developing talent like they should, then how do you expect those Capital teams to be competitive?

3...2...1... on how long it takes for a response about how MD dads are shaking about the Capital pipeline. Guess what, the people commenting here aren't MD dads.

DMV hater guy is back! Took a spin through your OP to see if you cited any facts. Saw only opinions. Half-baked ones.

Here’s a fact: Capital last year sent players to BC, Denver, Yale, UVA, Georgetown and others. Here’s another: Prior Capital classes sent players to UNC, Syracuse, Northwestern, ND, Duke, Cornell, Virginia Tech, MIT, Michigan, Ohio State, Maryland, Navy, UVA, Jacksonville, Dartmouth, Columbia, William and Mary, Brown, Yale, Princeton, JMU, Penn, Harvard, Hopkins, Richmond, Stanford, Penn State, Vanderbilt, Colgate and other great schools and programs.

Capital recruiting has gone toe-to-toe with the best MD clubs for years. If you’re surprised by the ‘23s, you haven’t been payin’ attention.

So you're a DMV parent who sent your MS kid to a MD club. If that decision was best for you or your kid, mazel. You represent a tiny fraction of DMV parents who do this. You're driving thousands of extra miles each year, spending hours and hours in nightmare traffic, dealing with imbalanced MD parents (fitting in?), fighting MD club politics, and risking fewer minutes for your kid to shine on the field during her prime HS recruiting years. Hope it’s all worth it.

A de minimis number of DMVers do what you do. The online rosters posted by the better MD HS clubs confirm it. More facts: Skywalker’s Blue '25 has one player from Ashburn, VA and none from MoCo. Hero's Green '25 has two from up-county MoCo (they play for an Olney, MD high school where the drive to the MD clubs is likely more convenient). M&D Black '25 has zero from DMV.

You already know this. You know DMV parents aren’t going to MD. Your kid is on a team with few if any other DMV kids. So what’s the motivation for you to mislead people here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After an exceptional 2023 recruiting year for Capital, this announcement from BLC is even more good news for the club. More evidence that the pipeline of top MoCo players will continue to develop at an extraordinarily high level and feed directly into the best girls high school club in the region.

Welcome to the chat, CLC directors. How much is BLC paying you to try and stop the exodus from BLC to other clubs?! This is a whole lotta words about a whole lotta nothing….

This relationship is a big deal. Gets BLC kids great exposure to Capital at a young age. BLC development is excellent. Those MoCo kids who might have been inclined to jump to MD now have a straight pipeline to Capital. Smart move by the club.

“BLC development is excellent.” Lol. Is this some sort of sick joke? BLC parent coaching is a joke.

The coaching on 27 and 30s is outstanding and keeps top players. Coaching for the rest of the teams is poor, at best.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Email was a little too over the top praising Capital, a turn off. Read a lot like the fake BLC Stars partnership a few years back. How did that go? I am sure the BLC parent coaches and the few coaches who played in college want to “learn” from young adults and lower tier FCPS coaches. Maybe BLC will make some commission for sending players to HB. Don’t buy into people.

As you can see, these facts aren't well taken here. The same DA keeps commenting and posting about the 23s over and over. Here's a hint, we get it and congrats to those players, but who cares. Maryland clubs get that every year, year in and year out. But hey keep repeating yourself like the JB you are.

The BLC 28 team is worse than most low level rec teams. Pride has some talented teams and seems to develop the best right now. Stars is such a disaster, it's amazing players continue to go there and they continue to exist. If your top feeder clubs for MS all are on the decline and aren't developing talent like they should, then how do you expect those Capital teams to be competitive?

3...2...1... on how long it takes for a response about how MD dads are shaking about the Capital pipeline. Guess what, the people commenting here aren't MD dads.

As the sport grows the DMV feeders will get stronger. More players will bring more competition. It’s simple economics. Capital 24s were developed by a large swath of the DMV feeder programs and their sidelines are packed this summer with D1 college coaches. Pride was a primary feeder for Capital 25s (60 percent+ made the team). BLC has a history of developing great DMV talent and will be extremely good for Capital to harness and develop MoCo players moving forward. The BLC 27s are incredibly strong and will likely make up a big part of that Capital team.

As always (and true in MD too) some DMV feeder years will have stronger classes and some will have weaker ones. But there will always be plenty of top Capital DMV talent. Pride, BLC, VA Metro, CavLax (and yes, Stars) will have individual elite players that will make future competitive Capital teams. Capital has the experience to bring these players together. Players travel from outside the DMV to make Capital too (the 23s have a UVA commit who travels hours from southern VA to be on the team).

[Anonymous]

Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

I coach both high school and club snd right now I would say volleyball and it’s travel year round is making a dent in girls lax numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

Those clubs failed because they couldn’t compete with the top three DMV feeder teams that are developing great DMV talent. Top players will travel to BLC, Pride and VA Metro. Three incredibly strong programs where tryout numbers are through the roof each year. Those who don’t make Capital from these programs will go to MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

Please check out the college commitments page on Inside Lacrosse. For all commitments since 1/1/2021 DMV has 29% of commitments and TX and CA combined have 5%. Maryland completely dominates the list and even Virginia has more than TX and CA combined.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

Please check out the college commitments page on Inside Lacrosse. For all commitments since 1/1/2021 DMV has 29% of commitments and TX and CA combined have 5%. Maryland completely dominates the list and even Virginia has more than TX and CA combined.

Silly troll. I ain’t talking about now. The number of club teams and tourneys in those states has grown exponentially in just the last 5 years. The girls aged to commit aren’t ready yet as they only have limited experience still. Those states have younger girls that are developing. 5 years from now, those commit numbers will be history as the athletes in Texas and Cali grow up playing lax. Yes, DMV will still have a fair share, but the world is about to get real different for those in classes of the late 2020’s. That’s why a number of parents are moving younger kids to other sports.

[Anonymous]

Ha, I laugh at pp comment about va metro being strong. Except for the 23 class, that club is a sinking ship.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

Please check out the college commitments page on Inside Lacrosse. For all commitments since 1/1/2021 DMV has 29% of commitments and TX and CA combined have 5%. Maryland completely dominates the list and even Virginia has more than TX and CA combined.

Silly troll. I ain’t talking about now. The number of club teams and tourneys in those states has grown exponentially in just the last 5 years. The girls aged to commit aren’t ready yet as they only have limited experience still. Those states have younger girls that are developing. 5 years from now, those commit numbers will be history as the athletes in Texas and Cali grow up playing lax. Yes, DMV will still have a fair share, but the world is about to get real different for those in classes of the late 2020’s. That’s why a number of parents are moving younger kids to other sports.

Hey DMVers - Will I see any of you guys at Fence for the Cure next weekend? It’s gonna be nuts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

This. Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now. Heyday of DMV is over. Yes, it is still popular and will remain so, but the growth now in the DMV is in girls ice hockey, field hockey, fencing and crew. That’s where the smart DMV parents are putting their younger girls.

Please check out the college commitments page on Inside Lacrosse. For all commitments since 1/1/2021 DMV has 29% of commitments and TX and CA combined have 5%. Maryland completely dominates the list and even Virginia has more than TX and CA combined.

Silly troll. I ain’t talking about now. The number of club teams and tourneys in those states has grown exponentially in just the last 5 years. The girls aged to commit aren’t ready yet as they only have limited experience still. Those states have younger girls that are developing. 5 years from now, those commit numbers will be history as the athletes in Texas and Cali grow up playing lax. Yes, DMV will still have a fair share, but the world is about to get real different for those in classes of the late 2020’s. That’s why a number of parents are moving younger kids to other sports.

Oh sorry. When you said "Texas and Cali are on to the gravy train of lax schollies now" I thought you meant "now" in the way that word is typically used.

Hey DMVers - Will I see any of you guys at Fence for the Cure next weekend? It’s gonna be nuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nationally the sport may still be growing but in the DMV that is no longer the case. NVYLL numbers have been on a slight decline for a few seasons. There are not more club players only less. Cardinal, Crash, VA United, CAV, 3D, and a few other g-lax clubs are no longer getting numbers and fielding as many teams. Some new clubs have been started but it is not the same numbers as 5-6 years ago. The trend is fewer players feeding the same number of clubs. Simple economics means clubs will take less talented players to fill roster spots.

Those clubs failed because they couldn’t compete with the top three DMV feeder teams that are developing great DMV talent. Top players will travel to BLC, Pride and VA Metro. Three incredibly strong programs where tryout numbers are through the roof each year. Those who don’t make Capital from these programs will go to MD.

BLC and Metro? Did you hit your head? 1 average program and 1 bad one. The only club even worth considering in the DMV for player development is Pride. And we all know their issues. The DMV talent pool continues to shrink and teams continue to be more and more watered down.