2025 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

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Looking to the final weeks:

Question: Is DC area lacrosse down or is talent just more distrubuted?

IAC: Landon's to lose.

Landon a clear number one. Deepest with the best coaching and faceoff dominance.

Bullis has top talent but lack of depth and me-ball hurting them.

Prep is underachieving. Cue nonsense rumors about Urick's job security.

EHS has some talent but falloff is steep and hasn't found rhythm.

StA is good at band and chorus, not so much at lacrosse.

SSSA seems to have largely abandoned boys sports.

WCAC: Four teams can win.

SJC may be a narrow favorite. Inconsistency, faceoff struggles, and penalties have been an issue. Verdict still out on new OC.

Gonzaga isn't what they usually are but are a tough out and play hard.

DeMatha thriving with no coaching. Best they've looked in a long time.

GC continues to build under Dane. Looking for a championship run.

Heights has some good top talent but way weaker down the roster.

PVI is standard undisciplined PVI and frustrating to watch.

The Bishops are fielding teams.

Short Version: DMV runs through Wilson Lane right now. Possible, maybe even likely, that the WCAC is the stronger league in the next 2-3 years.

[Anonymous]

*DeMatha thriving with new coaching.

[Anonymous]

Me ball narrative is so played out. Do you need a pass rule moron?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Me ball narrative is so played out. Do you need a pass rule moron?

No you’re right. Dodging into two poles and shooting wide with no backup with 58 seconds on the shot clock isn’t just genius. It’s Georgetown Prep genius.

[Anonymous]

Short Version: DMV runs through Wilson Lane right now. Possible, maybe even likely, that the WCAC is the stronger league in the next 2-3 years.



Not sure how you come to that conclusion.
WCAC
SJC's best class is the 26's. The 27's have some players too but the 28's are down but Speaks will bring them in
Paul VI might not have a program after the 26's leave. Well documented no jv last year and participation is down with the campus move
GZ will continue to be strong due to the size of the school and DC location
GC definitely gets very weak after the 26's graduate
DM has nothing after this class
The Heights truly has no hope of sustaining excellence

IAC
Landon has a program and a campus which allows clubs to practice and hold clinics
GP has a pipeline from a proven sports-driven grade school along with the rest of the archdiocese. same as GZ
Bullis has the best facilities and the school will be a magnet for the next coach
STA's coach is finally being given some leeway to get a couple of lax guys every year
SSSAS and EHS have tremendous upside but very real administration issues

It will continue to be the same story. The IAC has a better academic reputation and better facilities. The WCAC has much lower tuition but much better all sports and a good academic reputation. It's sacrilege, but the MAC could really become more competitive if their admins wanted to dive into the sport just a little more.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s only year one of the Maddox era at EHS. Let’ see where things go.

There's no going anywhere. The cost associated with EHS is $80k at a 100% boarding school with a religious association. The school needs to get back to where they came from and start pounding the streets in the affluent suburbs of the southern metropolitan areas.

Georgia is a bit of a hotbed now. I'm sure there are a few Fulton County finance scions with sons of the confederacy waiting to drop 80k for a chance to play better competition than they currently face.

Not with this being front and center.

The Office of Community & Equity supports Episcopal High School’s goal of fostering “empathy and responsibility for self and others” among its students and creating a supportive, inclusive, and equitable environment in which the “sharing [of] diverse life experiences, ideas, and values” becomes the foundation of the Episcopal High School community. By raising the consciousness of diversity issues in every aspect of the community, Episcopal students will draw closer to the School’s goal of becoming “discerning individuals with the intellectual and moral courage to lead principled lives of leadership and service to others.”

This kind of word salad mumbo-jumbo having little to do with actual education is not what finance scions are looking for in a school.

Go away.

Yeah sorry, while he phrases it like a d-bag, he’s not wrong. An office like that at a school catering to rich folks is begging to be shorted, and not just athletically.

Phrases what like a db? It's an exact quote from the school and using the same phrase from a prior poster. And to the pp - do you have an actual rebuttal or alternative to why EHS has gone down so far? Covering your ears and eyes is a losing strategy.

There’s a cadre of prep school upper management that has just shifted around from spot to spot and rolled out some very woke-y policies that have not aged well. The former guy at STAB did that and gutted the athletics program and scooted off to NY, where he did the same and got canned last year bc it’s not 2020 anymore. Just one example of many. Like it or not, high priced boarding schools that are losing fat wallets from Asia for geopolitical reasons are going back to alumni for more money and hearing that the changes made were not to their liking and give accordingly. Same thing at the ivies. The foreign gravy train has dried up, the diversity offices are now cost centers, not marketing material.

The private schools here face this same issue - this coupled with some of them consciously de emphasizing sports (STA) while others actively upped their emphasis on them (Prep) makes for a wide disparity across the IAC for lacrosse and football particularly. Landon is at a crossroads and the new Headmaster will be pivotal in either maintaining and improving the athletic culture (that is currently still down from the 90s and 2000s after some very non athletically focused admissions years) or destroying it as happened at STA and other schools too it sounds like.

Notwithstanding the “de-emphasizing” at STA, they still had the best player on the field in every IAC football game they played this year. (Watch the tape before you spout off about big Manny.) They also had 13 D-1 signees including 2 headed to SEC schools. Add the fact that they have many boys with 1500 plus SAT scores on every team they field and I think they are doing pretty well. Finally, they didn’t do it by importing kids to supplant local kids like Landon Lax did last year.

All good points about STA. Who is their football player that was the best player according to you ?
Manny is clearly the best player in the league

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Short Version: DMV runs through Wilson Lane right now. Possible, maybe even likely, that the WCAC is the stronger league in the next 2-3 years.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion.
WCAC
SJC's best class is the 26's. The 27's have some players too but the 28's are down but Speaks will bring them in
Paul VI might not have a program after the 26's leave. Well documented no jv last year and participation is down with the campus move
GZ will continue to be strong due to the size of the school and DC location
GC definitely gets very weak after the 26's graduate
DM has nothing after this class
The Heights truly has no hope of sustaining excellence

IAC
Landon has a program and a campus which allows clubs to practice and hold clinics
GP has a pipeline from a proven sports-driven grade school along with the rest of the archdiocese. same as GZ
Bullis has the best facilities and the school will be a magnet for the next coach
STA's coach is finally being given some leeway to get a couple of lax guys every year
SSSAS and EHS have tremendous upside but very real administration issues

It will continue to be the same story. The IAC has a better academic reputation and better facilities. The WCAC has much lower tuition but much better all sports and a good academic reputation. It's sacrilege, but the MAC could really become more competitive if their admins wanted to dive into the sport just a little more.



For the second year in a row, the Bears are the best team in the DMV this Spring (not many lax gurus had the Bears at the start of their season in the top four). Landon has a unique advantage due to the continuity of its coaching staff—it's the same staff since Coach Bordley retired (with the exception of GP alum Kubik). I've watched Landon play a few times this Spring. They are fast, athletic, and scrap hard. Individually, there aren't many superstars on its roster or the Tx Xanders "blue chip" type recruit, but they play extremely well together and play with a ton of discipline. All of this can be attributed to the coaching.

McGettigan struggled in his first season as HC for the Bears, now in his 4th full season, the Bears are on top of the lacrosse pecking order in the DMV. Time will tell how much the Bears drop off in the Spring of 2026. I thought they'd drop off this Spring with the graduation of their 2024 class, but I was wrong.

Over in the WCAC, the parity the parity between GZ, SJC, GC, Heights, DM, PVI and Ryken is exciting and great for the sport. Clearly, there are some good young coaches on the horizon, particularly at DM, Ryken, and GC. The WCAC for the past decade has been very boring to follow as it's been dominated by GZ and most recently SJC.

Lastly, all this talk that the DMV is down is getting old. Down relative to whom? I don't think any of the IAC or WCAC should aim to operate the way Culver, Lawrenceville, Loomis, Western Reserve, Salisbury etc., etc. These schools recruit nationally, bring in several PG's a year and re-class kids on the regular.

Still plenty of lax left to be played in these final 3 weeks. Anything can happen in the IAC and WCAC playoffs.

Enjoy the ride, seniors!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Short Version: DMV runs through Wilson Lane right now. Possible, maybe even likely, that the WCAC is the stronger league in the next 2-3 years.

Not sure how you come to that conclusion.
WCAC
SJC's best class is the 26's. The 27's have some players too but the 28's are down but Speaks will bring them in
Paul VI might not have a program after the 26's leave. Well documented no jv last year and participation is down with the campus move
GZ will continue to be strong due to the size of the school and DC location
GC definitely gets very weak after the 26's graduate
DM has nothing after this class
The Heights truly has no hope of sustaining excellence

IAC
Landon has a program and a campus which allows clubs to practice and hold clinics
GP has a pipeline from a proven sports-driven grade school along with the rest of the archdiocese. same as GZ
Bullis has the best facilities and the school will be a magnet for the next coach
STA's coach is finally being given some leeway to get a couple of lax guys every year
SSSAS and EHS have tremendous upside but very real administration issues

It will continue to be the same story. The IAC has a better academic reputation and better facilities. The WCAC has much lower tuition but much better all sports and a good academic reputation. It's sacrilege, but the MAC could really become more competitive if their admins wanted to dive into the sport just a little more.

For the second year in a row, the Bears are the best team in the DMV this Spring (not many lax gurus had the Bears at the start of their season in the top four). Landon has a unique advantage due to the continuity of its coaching staff—it's the same staff since Coach Bordley retired (with the exception of GP alum Kubik). I've watched Landon play a few times this Spring. They are fast, athletic, and scrap hard. Individually, there aren't many superstars on its roster or the Tx Xanders "blue chip" type recruit, but they play extremely well together and play with a ton of discipline. All of this can be attributed to the coaching.

McGettigan struggled in his first season as HC for the Bears, now in his 4th full season, the Bears are on top of the lacrosse pecking order in the DMV. Time will tell how much the Bears drop off in the Spring of 2026. I thought they'd drop off this Spring with the graduation of their 2024 class, but I was wrong.

Over in the WCAC, the parity the parity between GZ, SJC, GC, Heights, DM, PVI and Ryken is exciting and great for the sport. Clearly, there are some good young coaches on the horizon, particularly at DM, Ryken, and GC. The WCAC for the past decade has been very boring to follow as it's been dominated by GZ and most recently SJC.

Lastly, all this talk that the DMV is down is getting old. Down relative to whom? I don't think any of the IAC or WCAC should aim to operate the way Culver, Lawrenceville, Loomis, Western Reserve, Salisbury etc., etc. These schools recruit nationally, bring in several PG's a year and re-class kids on the regular.

Still plenty of lax left to be played in these final 3 weeks. Anything can happen in the IAC and WCAC playoffs.

Enjoy the ride, seniors!



“These schools recruit nationally, bring in several PG's a year and re-class kids on the regular.”

Honest question: do you even live here??

[Anonymous]

Landon hasn’t really played anyone. Wins over some MIAA bottom dwellers, some teams from Florida, the GZ win doesn’t hold that much weight this year, no standout wins against top 25 opponents.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon hasn’t really played anyone. Wins over some MIAA bottom dwellers, some teams from Florida, the GZ win doesn’t hold that much weight this year, no standout wins against top 25 opponents.

Gonzaga and Bullis…

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It may be getting old but it is true that DMV lax is not what it was. Not near the level of high end players from 2020 to 2023.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon hasn’t really played anyone. Wins over some MIAA bottom dwellers, some teams from Florida, the GZ win doesn’t hold that much weight this year, no standout wins against top 25 opponents.

Gonzaga and Bullis…

right?? there's no one else in the top 25 nationally in the DMV to play. I think he needs to think long and hard on whether that's something he wants to use for an argument. "All you've played is us, and we suck"

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Anonymous wrote:Me ball narrative is so played out. Do you need a pass rule moron?

No you’re right. Dodging into two poles and shooting wide with no backup with 58 seconds on the shot clock isn’t just genius. It’s Georgetown Prep genius.

I’m talking about the ranker above saying me ball on Bullis’ part. They put 11 on a good GP team. By dodging drawing dumping finishing. The only me ball I saw in that game was done by the GP attack.

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Anonymous wrote:It may be getting old but it is true that DMV lax is not what it was. Not near the level of high end players from 2020 to 2023.

Yeah but at least we don't reclass kids or recruit or ... ok fine.

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If Landon and SJC switched schedules the records and narratives would likely be reversed.