Private School Lacrosse Thread

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Anonymous wrote:Went to my first fall ball games this weekend and see what folks have been talking about. The lax parents are really annoying. Dads walking around with an intense posture, wearing visors and pastel shorts. Yelling worthless advice to players on the field when they can't even be heard. Whining about (supposed) player and ref mistakes on the field.
My kids love lax and I will of course continue to support them, but this is a parental world that is so foreign to me and embarrassing. So much of what's been posted on this thread now makes sense.
Maybe it's not unique to lax, but this intense emotional over involvement can't be good for anyone.

Wow very different from the fall ball high school game I attended today. Most parents were sitting except a few taking some pictures, and chatting after not seeing each other since last spring. There was brief clapping when a goal was scored.

Having been to many lax games, I call BS on this post. I've never been to any lax game that could be described that way! That's not meant as an insult by the way-just reality.

Fess up, what teams did you watch and we'll see if others agree with your description.

I agree. I've been to a ton of lacrosse games (club and otherwise) for my son and this describes exactly zero of them. I've never noticed much of a difference between lacrosse sidelines and say baseball, basketball, or soccer, despite people always saying this. It's the kind of thing that if you are primed to think it, then it becomes self-fulfilling. But in reality it's just not true.

So we'll make 4 who agree. It was a lovely day and I heard more people chatting and catching up than anything else. I don't think I even heard anyone calling out. There was some clapping once in a while but honestly the parents were too busy enjoying the sun and seeing each other after the summer break.

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Sorry, I did see a bunch of douchebags.

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DELETE THIS THEAD

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Yep. I'm finally at this point. Thread is not informative anymore. Just a bunch of lacrosse windbags trying to outdo each other.

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DC Express 2022 teams looked awesome yesterday. Setting the standard!

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I'm am now part of the DTT club.

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Nope, good info if you read through the lines (so to speak). Vast majority of threads on DCUM have this same issue. No need to delete, just refocus the crazies (and yes, DTT person is included in that category).

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Anonymous wrote:DC Express 2022 teams looked awesome yesterday. Setting the standard!

Awesome, dad. Your constant pumping of DCE 2022 will attract more hate. DCE 2021 has fallen apart and DCE 2022 is just an ok team. But keep it up.

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If you don't like this thread, don't read it...

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Anonymous wrote:DELETE THIS THEAD

Yep. I'm finally at this point. Thread is not informative anymore. Just a bunch of lacrosse windbags trying to outdo each other.

You want "windbags trying to outdo each other"? How about scanning the headline links in this forum. I don't even know what a 2E Twice Exceptional kid is - other than some made up label so parents can humblebrag about it at every cocktail party and online.

So yeah. This thread is the problem.

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DELETE THIS THREAD

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This thread is fine. It's easy to skip over redundant/promotional posts...

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Anonymous wrote:Is VLC the only elite club team in the DMV that feeds primarily to the public schools?

I know more about the MD side of the Crab house, but just looking at the VLC Blue Crab Twitter feed I see lots of highlight tapes from Landon, St Albans and SSSA.

https://twitter.com/vlclax

VLC has more public school kids than the other elite clubs in the area. But as PP observed, there are a lot of private schools represented as well. For a while VLC was synonymous with PVI..

And you based this on what? BW, VLC and Madlax all have a mix of private and public kids. It varies, dependsing on the grade. None of those three are known for having more public or more private kids than the others.

DCE has a large number of MoCo public school kids.

Next Level seems private school heavy (Landon, Heights, ST Albans, Gonzaga), but I'm also noticing a few more MoCo kids every year.

Great for developing MoCo lacrosse!

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In terms of public school lax in the DMV, Montgomery is far behind other counties. Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William Counties. Probably on par with Arlington, and ahead of Alexandria. Prince George's County brings up the rear.

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Anonymous wrote:In terms of public school lax in the DMV, Montgomery is far behind other counties. Loudoun, Fairfax and Prince William Counties. Probably on par with Arlington, and ahead of Alexandria. Prince George's County brings up the rear.

Different poster and I don't have any stats to back it up, but can say that my impression is that you are spot-on. The interesting question is why? Lax is an expensive sport, no doubt. But you'd think Montgomery with pockets of great affluence in Potomac, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, would have fueled the growth of lacrosse in the public school system (Churchill is probably the only public school team that could compete with the best schools in VA, and might be able to beat a lesser team in the WCAC or IAC on a good day).