2030 Girls Lacrosse

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Anonymous wrote:Hey 2030 parents. If your daughter would like to make Capital Blue a year from now she could do three things that would help her chances: 1) be a good player; 2) get on a good MS team; and 3) attend Capital clinics and Healthy Baller sessions to get on Capital’s radar. Next year you will hear talk of politics, connections, and other such nonsense, but this is the formula. The clinics start up in the fall and fill up quickly so follow that Capital Instagram account and be ready to pounce.

Do you believe they'll still have a parents' handbook that must be signed, and do practices continue to be mandatory even if there are top showcases that you are doing?

Vast majority of top clubs have some version of this. Is this hard to believe? If you make capital blue, there’s an expectation that you’ve made a serious commitment to the team.

Capital is one of the few that do this. MD clubs don’t bother with this. Practices are mandatory and missing them means less playing time. They don’t support players participating in showcases the first year. A few players still did, but they risked either missing practice or leaving showcases early in some instances.

Do you know why they don’t support attending showcases? Merely because they are missing practices? I might understand that. Do they care if you go to a showcase but don’t miss practice?

The freshman are not yet in the recruiting window and the club thinks their time is better spent developing as a team and player through team practice. Freshman can't miss team practice for showcases, clinics, etc. The older girls who are in the recruiting window can get excused from practice for these types of things. It's a very reasonable policy as far as I am concerned, and the conflicting freshman camps and clinics are money grabs anyway. Nobody cares about freshman. It gets real sophomore year.

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What's Capital practice schedule like? I'm going to assume 1x during weekends in the fall, 2x on weekdays in the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey 2030 parents. If your daughter would like to make Capital Blue a year from now she could do three things that would help her chances: 1) be a good player; 2) get on a good MS team; and 3) attend Capital clinics and Healthy Baller sessions to get on Capital’s radar. Next year you will hear talk of politics, connections, and other such nonsense, but this is the formula. The clinics start up in the fall and fill up quickly so follow that Capital Instagram account and be ready to pounce.

Do you believe they'll still have a parents' handbook that must be signed, and do practices continue to be mandatory even if there are top showcases that you are doing?

Vast majority of top clubs have some version of this. Is this hard to believe? If you make capital blue, there’s an expectation that you’ve made a serious commitment to the team.

Capital is one of the few that do this. MD clubs don’t bother with this. Practices are mandatory and missing them means less playing time. They don’t support players participating in showcases the first year. A few players still did, but they risked either missing practice or leaving showcases early in some instances.

Do you know why they don’t support attending showcases? Merely because they are missing practices? I might understand that. Do they care if you go to a showcase but don’t miss practice?

The freshman are not yet in the recruiting window and the club thinks their time is better spent developing as a team and player through team practice. Freshman can't miss team practice for showcases, clinics, etc. The older girls who are in the recruiting window can get excused from practice for these types of things. It's a very reasonable policy as far as I am concerned, and the conflicting freshman camps and clinics are money grabs anyway. Nobody cares about freshman. It gets real sophomore year.

I understand that if you miss practice, then it might mean that you just miss the 1st half of the 1st game in the next tournament. True?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey 2030 parents. If your daughter would like to make Capital Blue a year from now she could do three things that would help her chances: 1) be a good player; 2) get on a good MS team; and 3) attend Capital clinics and Healthy Baller sessions to get on Capital’s radar. Next year you will hear talk of politics, connections, and other such nonsense, but this is the formula. The clinics start up in the fall and fill up quickly so follow that Capital Instagram account and be ready to pounce.

Do you believe they'll still have a parents' handbook that must be signed, and do practices continue to be mandatory even if there are top showcases that you are doing?

Vast majority of top clubs have some version of this. Is this hard to believe? If you make capital blue, there’s an expectation that you’ve made a serious commitment to the team.

Capital is one of the few that do this. MD clubs don’t bother with this. Practices are mandatory and missing them means less playing time. They don’t support players participating in showcases the first year. A few players still did, but they risked either missing practice or leaving showcases early in some instances.

No, you miss a full game
Do you know why they don’t support attending showcases? Merely because they are missing practices? I might understand that. Do they care if you go to a showcase but don’t miss practice?

The freshman are not yet in the recruiting window and the club thinks their time is better spent developing as a team and player through team practice. Freshman can't miss team practice for showcases, clinics, etc. The older girls who are in the recruiting window can get excused from practice for these types of things. It's a very reasonable policy as far as I am concerned, and the conflicting freshman camps and clinics are money grabs anyway. Nobody cares about freshman. It gets real sophomore year.

I understand that if you miss practice, then it might mean that you just miss the 1st half of the 1st game in the next tournament. True?

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MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

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Anonymous wrote:MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

No you don't have to live in MD. The 30s team had players from MD, VA, PA, and SC. DD really enjoyed the experience this year and will be trying out again next year.

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Anonymous wrote:MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

No you don't have to live in MD. The 30s team had players from MD, VA, PA, and SC. DD really enjoyed the experience this year and will be trying out again next year.

Glad the experience was good and the team did well. We found the tryouts and selections bizarre, seemed somewhat political, but it seems the results were strong.

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The 30s team was a great experience. It all started with the coaches who ran efficient and well organized practices to get the girls gelled up before both tournaments. The talent was great and the competition in Youth nationals was fierce. Will definitely try out again next year.

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Anonymous wrote:MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

No you don't have to live in MD. The 30s team had players from MD, VA, PA, and SC. DD really enjoyed the experience this year and will be trying out again next year.

Glad the experience was good and the team did well. We found the tryouts and selections bizarre, seemed somewhat political, but it seems the results were strong.

Hard to argue with the selections when the team beat YJ Babst in pool play after only a few practices.

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Anonymous wrote:MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

No you don't have to live in MD. The 30s team had players from MD, VA, PA, and SC. DD really enjoyed the experience this year and will be trying out again next year.

Glad the experience was good and the team did well. We found the tryouts and selections bizarre, seemed somewhat political, but it seems the results were strong.

Nothing is political if your kid is good! You weak a$$ parents think it always political when you cannot face the fact your kid is mediocre. The same way they claim all these politics at privates/capital. It just ain’t so... Keep telling yourself that to make yourself and your kid feel better about being mediocre. We have many of the top 100 players in the country in all these classes based on recruiting results even if Capital not ranked in top 5 as a TEAM the individual players are some of the best in the county especially those highly recruited on Cap Blue 2025 and 2026 top players on top 25 D1 teams. The same with this team.

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Go away, Capital trolls.

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Anonymous wrote:MD Select did really well at USA Lax Nationals! Do you have to live in MD to join that team? Have people had good experience with that team?

No you don't have to live in MD. The 30s team had players from MD, VA, PA, and SC. DD really enjoyed the experience this year and will be trying out again next year.

Glad the experience was good and the team did well. We found the tryouts and selections bizarre, seemed somewhat political, but it seems the results were strong.

Nothing is political if your kid is good! You weak a$$ parents think it always political when you cannot face the fact your kid is mediocre. The same way they claim all these politics at privates/capital. It just ain’t so... Keep telling yourself that to make yourself and your kid feel better about being mediocre. We have many of the top 100 players in the country in all these classes based on recruiting results even if Capital not ranked in top 5 as a TEAM the individual players are some of the best in the county especially those highly recruited on Cap Blue 2025 and 2026 top players on top 25 D1 teams. The same with this team.

What are you on about with the unhinged post as the PP's was pretty tempered? Then extrapolating top 100 players for every class with a word salad that makes zero sense. (psst... Cap blue 25s and 26s were actually top 5ish teams not to mention 4 and 5 years ahead of 2030's).
Just weird all the way around.

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Why are Capital parents so unhinged already?

I thought they didn’t have a team yet. Calm down

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Yes, Maryland Select had a great showing. Top players from Hero’s, MD United, M&D and others.

Always fun to get a win over Yellow Jackets!

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Anonymous wrote:Why are Capital parents so unhinged already?

I thought they didn’t have a team yet. Calm down

You're in for a real treat for the next 12 months.