2029 Girls

[Anonymous]

Each kid is different. My kid is in it all the way, and we are doing three winter prospect camps, one of which we were told by our club director that the coach specifically asked for our team’s top 5-6 kids. I guess these D1 coaches will “know” these 2029s when they get the list. Some kids might burn out, so different strokes, right? Maybe you are at least delaying the burn out until after lacrosse helps get them into a good school, not a bad strategy; but that kid will def burn out in college if they were going to burn out due to a packed winter schedule freshman year. This is especially true if they go to a D1 program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each kid is different. My kid is in it all the way, and we are doing three winter prospect camps, one of which we were told by our club director that the coach specifically asked for our team’s top 5-6 kids. I guess these D1 coaches will “know” these 2029s when they get the list. Some kids might burn out, so different strokes, right? Maybe you are at least delaying the burn out until after lacrosse helps get them into a good school, not a bad strategy; but that kid will def burn out in college if they were going to burn out due to a packed winter schedule freshman year. This is especially true if they go to a D1 program.

They asked for your teams best 5-6 kids because these camps are a massive money maker for the program.

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Anonymous wrote:Each kid is different. My kid is in it all the way, and we are doing three winter prospect camps, one of which we were told by our club director that the coach specifically asked for our team’s top 5-6 kids. I guess these D1 coaches will “know” these 2029s when they get the list. Some kids might burn out, so different strokes, right? Maybe you are at least delaying the burn out until after lacrosse helps get them into a good school, not a bad strategy; but that kid will def burn out in college if they were going to burn out due to a packed winter schedule freshman year. This is especially true if they go to a D1 program.

They asked for your teams best 5-6 kids because these camps are a massive money maker for the program.

That is certainly part of it, but these programs also recruit heavily from their own prospect camps. We are always told to go to prospect camps for schools that our kid is interested in, correct? I’m willing to line the pocket of these programs if it gets my kid where she wants to go.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous they had 2030s there. Capital must be hurting to go that deep for a showcase event. Probably not fair to the 28s who my daughter said were playing with the 30 and 29 kids.

Money money money money…

100% Daughter went. Coaches were there, but just running drills, stations, and chit chatting. No clip boards like you might expect for a “recruiting” event. Doubt any of them left thinking this girl or that girl stood out. Capital is a money grab just like everything else out there. Maybe worse.

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Haters

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We were told that the majority of the recruiting comes from coaches watching the team play.

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I was told the 28s were moved to one side of the field so they coaches could isolate the 29s and clipboards came out then

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Anonymous wrote:I was told the 28s were moved to one side of the field so they coaches could isolate the 29s and clipboards came out then

If it was capital that wouldn’t surprise me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember having the Freshman FOMO with my older daughter. Someone I trust told me not to bother with prospect camps during her freshman year, as she was not yet good enough for that stage. While that perspective was hard to hear, it resonated with me. Allowing my DD an additional year of growth and development provided her with a greater opportunity to make a meaningful first impression sophomore year. In hindsight, this proved to be extremely good advice.

if that’s what’s going on with your kid cause you definitely don’t want to have a kid who’s undersized still needs a lot of development going to these prospect camps and showing poorly so that was why you were probably told to wait…. The top kids —the ones that are going to go to the top 20 schools in the country are going to these prospect camps NOW. For the kids on these top clubs and for all these cap blue kids they need to be going to these prospect camps if they are top player and can hack high-level D1 play.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each kid is different. My kid is in it all the way, and we are doing three winter prospect camps, one of which we were told by our club director that the coach specifically asked for our team’s top 5-6 kids. I guess these D1 coaches will “know” these 2029s when they get the list. Some kids might burn out, so different strokes, right? Maybe you are at least delaying the burn out until after lacrosse helps get them into a good school, not a bad strategy; but that kid will def burn out in college if they were going to burn out due to a packed winter schedule freshman year. This is especially true if they go to a D1 program.

I’m glad someone knows how the hustle works. Get on the radar early and stay on it! If your kids is going to burn out, they’re going to burn out now or they can burn out in college—- then they probably aren’t meant for D1! 3 to 5 winter prospect camps should not be causing your kid to burn out- toughen up because D1 college athlete schedule and physical demand are no joke or for the weak!