VHSL Girls Lacrosse Spring 2023

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Anonymous wrote:The challenge with Loudoun is that many of the top players leave for private schools. The U-16 player you mention is a good example. She lives in Loudoun. The top choice (school-wise) most recently is PVI since it's west of the beltway. However, many girls jump on the toll road or other East/West roads to go into the city to attend school like Visi, SSSA, Potomac, etc. If you live closer to the city and your daughter will attend a school like Yorktown, Mclean, Langley, etc., with a greater amount of good players, the private school option seems less attractive (Although it's still common).

The private school migration allows players to continue to play lacrosse at a high level in high school with their travel mates. Otherwise, you only have 1 or 2 good players in each Loudoun high school. Some teams even fewer. This is not unique to lacrosse. Top football, basketball, etc. kids are doing the same thing. I expect both Riverside and Dominion to be weaker in the coming years as a result. It's unfortunate for kids that want to play at a high level and are good enough to play at a high/private school level, but want to attend their public high school for whatever reason. My daughter played at her public school and graduated last year while my son is currently in 7th grade. We are grappling with the public/private school decision now. He's a very good lacrosse player and student.

Just my observations over the last few years.

I agree. Battlefield does not seem to lose as many to private schools as many others have

The gates of their gated communities work both ways. Lock the riff-raff out, lock the lax players in....

Yes, that's a long haul from Battlefield into the city. They likely retain everyone unless you want to drive over an hour each way to get to a private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The challenge with Loudoun is that many of the top players leave for private schools. The U-16 player you mention is a good example. She lives in Loudoun. The top choice (school-wise) most recently is PVI since it's west of the beltway. However, many girls jump on the toll road or other East/West roads to go into the city to attend school like Visi, SSSA, Potomac, etc. If you live closer to the city and your daughter will attend a school like Yorktown, Mclean, Langley, etc., with a greater amount of good players, the private school option seems less attractive (Although it's still common).

The private school migration allows players to continue to play lacrosse at a high level in high school with their travel mates. Otherwise, you only have 1 or 2 good players in each Loudoun high school. Some teams even fewer. This is not unique to lacrosse. Top football, basketball, etc. kids are doing the same thing. I expect both Riverside and Dominion to be weaker in the coming years as a result. It's unfortunate for kids that want to play at a high level and are good enough to play at a high/private school level, but want to attend their public high school for whatever reason. My daughter played at her public school and graduated last year while my son is currently in 7th grade. We are grappling with the public/private school decision now. He's a very good lacrosse player and student.

Just my observations over the last few years.

I agree. Battlefield does not seem to lose as many to private schools as many others have

The gates of their gated communities work both ways. Lock the riff-raff out, lock the lax players in....

😂😂😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does Battlefield have any commits or top club players? Seems like they have to have some sort of edge to generate this score over a team like riverside with 4 commits.

No, Battlefield didn’t have a ton of players that are currently committed to D 1 schools. Currently, only one Senior is committed to a D3 school. The junior class has a little bit more, their goalie is a D1 committ to UConn.

Having said that, not all of their players want to play in college, as is the case for two seniors.

The junior class had two girls still looking to commit and a few other solid players that don’t want to play in college

The sophomore class is a little more deeper, but no commits obviously. They will probably have three D1 commits, one being their sophomore goalie.

Other than that, they just have a lot of athletic girls that started playing lacrosse late in life

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Battlefield did have a 25 Capital Blue player choose to go to PVI. Her sister is a Senior and one of the most talented on Battlefields team.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations to Battlefield last night from a Riverside fan. I thought the Bobcats played well. You can tell the team has been playing together for a while. They looked organized from top to bottom. And they mean business. I can appreciate their style of play.

I agree with a PP. The draw was key. Battlefield seemed to settle on one primary player taking the draw for most of the night. It looked like Riverside was testing many combinations. Draws will come down to circle play and Battlefield had the advantage there last night.

Someone mentioned the Riverside commits. They do have four. Their goalie commit did not play last night. They had a fill in who doesn’t have a lot of experience in goal. Several of the other commits sat out for good chunks of the game as someone already mentioned. And several girls who will be counted on to start sat out last night. Not sure why.

Battlefield will be a very good team this season. I think other teams on their schedule will have their hands full. I’m not quite sure what to expect from Riverside since they haven’t fielded a regular starting lineup in their scrimmages. They have a really young team. Some with no lacrosse background at all having to play significant minutes.

Again, congratulations to Battlefield. And best of luck this season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Congratulations to Battlefield last night from a Riverside fan. I thought the Bobcats played well. You can tell the team has been playing together for a while. They looked organized from top to bottom. And they mean business. I can appreciate their style of play.

I agree with a PP. The draw was key. Battlefield seemed to settle on one primary player taking the draw for most of the night. It looked like Riverside was testing many combinations. Draws will come down to circle play and Battlefield had the advantage there last night.

Someone mentioned the Riverside commits. They do have four. Their goalie commit did not play last night. They had a fill in who doesn’t have a lot of experience in goal. Several of the other commits sat out for good chunks of the game as someone already mentioned. And several girls who will be counted on to start sat out last night. Not sure why.

Battlefield will be a very good team this season. I think other teams on their schedule will have their hands full. I’m not quite sure what to expect from Riverside since they haven’t fielded a regular starting lineup in their scrimmages. They have a really young team. Some with no lacrosse background at all having to play significant minutes.

Again, congratulations to Battlefield. And best of luck this season.

What is it with the goalies. Battlefield starting goalie didn’t play last night either. Saw her on the sidelines

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Anonymous wrote:No need to disguise. Team went to to Riverside and dominated play. Big step for them. Never have beaten Riverside. Up 7-0 at one point then 12-4 at half. Riverside dialed scoreboard back to 0-0 at half and it was 3-3 at one point before time out was called. Cats then finished them. Draw control was a big contributor to the score. Always a great atmosphere and hosts at Riverside.

Thanks Battlefield #1 fan. Raise that scrimmage trophy! The real season starts soon and some L’s coming up

[Anonymous]

Saw the Langley vs Holton Arms scrimmage. Granted just a scrimmage, but Holton dominated all around the field, much much better coached, disciplined and can execute. I said it in an earlier thread, Langley is quickly on the downfall as their players looked lost, can't pass and catch the ball, they actually looked scared to drive to goal, minus one or two of them. The question is, where did all their coaches go? There was only the HC on the sideline, and a goalie coach who is sub par. Looks like the HC Burke ran everyone off, which seems to be consistant of her track record.
I understand it was a scrimmage and teams will hopefully get better, but c'mon Coach Burke, step it up and actually coach your players as they looked completely lost. Can't remember who, but someone said it last year that she completely destroyed that program, and it looks to be true.

Any other scrimmages out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw the Langley vs Holton Arms scrimmage. Granted just a scrimmage, but Holton dominated all around the field, much much better coached, disciplined and can execute. I said it in an earlier thread, Langley is quickly on the downfall as their players looked lost, can't pass and catch the ball, they actually looked scared to drive to goal, minus one or two of them. The question is, where did all their coaches go? There was only the HC on the sideline, and a goalie coach who is sub par. Looks like the HC Burke ran everyone off, which seems to be consistant of her track record.
I understand it was a scrimmage and teams will hopefully get better, but c'mon Coach Burke, step it up and actually coach your players as they looked completely lost. Can't remember who, but someone said it last year that she completely destroyed that program, and it looks to be true.

Any other scrimmages out there.

Someone posted this list earlier. PVI won vs Yorktown. Anyone know the outcomes of the other games?

Yorktown vs PVI
Madison vs St Johns
Robinson vs Collegiate
Oakton vs Independence

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The oak ton vs independence scrimmage was only half a game but looked pretty evenly matched. Independence had some reallly ft players, so I would say watch out for them. Oakton looked prett good at times, but just average at other times.

Looking forward to the tart of the regular season

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The oak ton vs independence scrimmage was only half a game but looked pretty evenly matched. Independence had some reallly ft players, so I would say watch out for them. Oakton looked prett good at times, but just average at other times.

Looking forward to the tart of the regular season

What is a “ft player”

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Anonymous wrote:Do you just travel around nova watching girls high school lax. That’s pretty creepy

More like a disguise of a Battlefield fan coming here to post when they win.

wow you finally figured us out. You are so smart.

Just call me inspector gadget!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Saw the Langley vs Holton Arms scrimmage. Granted just a scrimmage, but Holton dominated all around the field, much much better coached, disciplined and can execute. I said it in an earlier thread, Langley is quickly on the downfall as their players looked lost, can't pass and catch the ball, they actually looked scared to drive to goal, minus one or two of them. The question is, where did all their coaches go? There was only the HC on the sideline, and a goalie coach who is sub par. Looks like the HC Burke ran everyone off, which seems to be consistant of her track record.
I understand it was a scrimmage and teams will hopefully get better, but c'mon Coach Burke, step it up and actually coach your players as they looked completely lost. Can't remember who, but someone said it last year that she completely destroyed that program, and it looks to be true.

Any other scrimmages out there.

Rather blaming the current HC what about the previous Coach dipping out knowing what the pipeline was going to be at Langley? Programs can’t be undefeated forever.

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Anonymous wrote:If the two Yorktown players referenced don’t play this season 6A will not have an overwhelming favorite. Battlefield will get their usual cakewalk to states. Outside this 6A seems up for grabs. In 5A Riverside’s best days are behind them. In 4A Dominion has one year left before their program drops off.

Where will the two Yorktown players be?

The rumor is some of their best players are sticking to their #1 sport which is not lacrosse.

^^This is true - and two other returning Yorktown standouts have torn ACLs and are out for the season (one will be back toward the end of the season).

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To the previous poster about Langley, you have no clue what your talking about, pipeline, blah blah blah. The head coach Burke completely crushed the program last year and this carried over to this year. Ask anyone close to the program and they know how kids quit, didn’t even bother trying out because of her demeanor when she first got their last year. So please don’t bring up the prior head coach leaving because of no pipeline, again you have no clue what your talking about.
Believe me when I tell you that parents and players would welcome Burke resigning and going elsewhere. Case in point, the pp mentioned it was just her on the sideline by herself. Wonder why her assistants left and didn’t come back. Seems like no one after they work with her likes to come back as they just move on.
Just sayin