Capital Tryouts

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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.

If you think lacrosse is bad, I can’t wait for dc urban moms fencing forum …

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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?

The only "top" MD club with a material number of DMV girls is Maryland United. And for them its usually 3-5 per team.

[Anonymous]

Guys: recommend you get yourself to Fencing Unlimited ASAP. DMV location has been slammed with business - they’re entirely out of face shields and almost out of sword thingies because the sport has suddenly caught fire. Seems all the smart DMV parents are getting their kids into the sport. Who knew? Just get there now. If you wait you’ll be sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys: recommend you get yourself to Fencing Unlimited ASAP. DMV location has been slammed with business - they’re entirely out of face shields and almost out of sword thingies because the sport has suddenly caught fire. Seems all the smart DMV parents are getting their kids into the sport. Who knew? Just get there now. If you wait you’ll be sorry.

Over Armour usually has lots of supplies for fencing and protecting oneself from the Sabre’s.

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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.

Md clubs are just mad Capital recruiting is killing it. Spreading lies is all they have. They could tip their caps, acknowledge it gracefully and support the fact that DMV girls lax is helping these amazing athletes fulfill their dreams and get into great schools. Instead they shoot anonymous spitballs and trash their talents. Zero class. You should spend more time thinking about how to stop Md kids defecting to DMV lax for better development, more field time and better recruiting results. Just so you now - we can do this for the next ten years. You will never have the last word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys: recommend you get yourself to Fencing Unlimited ASAP. DMV location has been slammed with business - they’re entirely out of face shields and almost out of sword thingies because the sport has suddenly caught fire. Seems all the smart DMV parents are getting their kids into the sport. Who knew? Just get there now. If you wait you’ll be sorry.

This!!!!! Ha

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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.

The 26 Stars was a very good team even before the three players came from Pride. Culture deteriorated after they arrived. Yes the team won some big games but also regressed with over reliance on the starting lineup. The subs don’t see the field much. There is little player development beyond certain SSSA girls. Girls will still try out for capitals but several top players are already looking elsewhere if the “chosen ones” are on Capital Blues.

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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.

Where do you think said top players will go?

[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.

Where do you think said top players will go?

Anywhere but here.

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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.

Where do you think said top players will go?

The buzz is that there is a group going to YJMA…

[Anonymous]

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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.

Md clubs are just mad Capital recruiting is killing it. Spreading lies is all they have. They could tip their caps, acknowledge it gracefully and support the fact that DMV girls lax is helping these amazing athletes fulfill their dreams and get into great schools. Instead they shoot anonymous spitballs and trash their talents. Zero class. You should spend more time thinking about how to stop Md kids defecting to DMV lax for better development, more field time and better recruiting results. Just so you now - we can do this for the next ten years. You will never have the last word.

Keep tuning in to the DMV mess as more top players leave for better clubs. Care to explain the total implosion of the 28 BLC team? All of their top players went to Hero's. Doesn't fit your agenda though. Other than the club directors kids teams, the BLC teams stink. Stars, wouldn't even know where to start with that chaos. You are right, we can go non stop on this. No top player is leaving Hero's, M&D etc to come to a lesser DMV club. Where are the facts? How about the 24 and 26 teams where top DMV players left for Maryland clubs? No one cares about your last word. Enjoy your kid sitting on the B team.

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How many BLC 28 players went to Hero’s?

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this is so true. there are a handful of chosen ones on Stars and a handful of chosen ones on Pride. yes, they are good but overrated and no one can touch them. politics to the 10th degree. awful dynamic so good luck to the coaches! good luck to your daughter if she ends up playing with this fun group of girls. There is no "I" in team but there is with them.

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True that. My daughter and friend will refuse Capital A if they end up on same team w/ those "chosen girls". Not worth that drama. Hope Capital can see through it but not sure. Do the clubs share the roster before a decision is made? Or is it based on chatter only through the girls? Went through this w/ my son and not looking forward to going through this w/ my daughter now.

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who cares about BLC. the only teams that are decent are parent coached so don't even start. a strong club has a track history of developing players even when mom an dad aren't coaching.