What's going on with MadLax 2026

[Anonymous]

Relax people Madlax will finish top 20 this year.

[Anonymous]

Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

See below. These rankings aren't perfect but they're generally accurate. Each of the local clubs has some standout age groups, each has one or more years where they're not as strong.

Def seeing a pattern though of Madlax players bailing to join other clubs, over the past few years, that goes above and beyond normal attrition.

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US Club Lax Rankings

2024:

NL (8): really strong team stocked with a large number of ML refugees
ML (35): good team with a significant number of D1 commitments
DCE (47): good team, one strong D1 recruit, other DIII recruits

2025:

DCE (8)
ML (12)
NL (13)

2026:

DCE (8)
NL (14): will prob rise a bit. Roster is new due to--again--large number of ML refugees who joined in the spring.
ML (39): have dropped this summer due to loss of core players to NL.

2027:
NL (20)
ML (23)
DCE (91): this grad year has been a problem child for DCE the past few years, hearing they picked up some new guys but we'll see.

2028:
ML (28)
NL (35): were top 20 but had a rough spring and summer.
DCE (NR): new DCE team starts this year with core of old BLC Blue team (56) plus 7-8 refugees from--you guessed it--Madlax.



2028:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

See below. These rankings aren't perfect but they're generally accurate. Each of the local clubs has some standout age groups, each has one or more years where they're not as strong.

Def seeing a pattern though of Madlax players bailing to join other clubs, over the past few years, that goes above and beyond normal attrition.

_______________________________________________

US Club Lax Rankings

2024:

NL (8): really strong team stocked with a large number of ML refugees
ML (35): good team with a significant number of D1 commitments
DCE (47): good team, one strong D1 recruit, other DIII recruits

2025:

DCE (8)
ML (12)
NL (13)

2026:

DCE (8)
NL (14): will prob rise a bit. Roster is new due to--again--large number of ML refugees who joined in the spring.
ML (39): have dropped this summer due to loss of core players to NL.

2027:
NL (20)
ML (23)
DCE (91): this grad year has been a problem child for DCE the past few years, hearing they picked up some new guys but we'll see.

2028:
ML (28)
NL (35): were top 20 but had a rough spring and summer.
DCE (NR): new DCE team starts this year with core of old BLC Blue team (56) plus 7-8 refugees from--you guessed it--Madlax.



2028:

Does the 2026 VLC team still seem to stand a chance against ML and NL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

See below. These rankings aren't perfect but they're generally accurate. Each of the local clubs has some standout age groups, each has one or more years where they're not as strong.

Def seeing a pattern though of Madlax players bailing to join other clubs, over the past few years, that goes above and beyond normal attrition.

_______________________________________________

US Club Lax Rankings

2024:

NL (8): really strong team stocked with a large number of ML refugees
ML (35): good team with a significant number of D1 commitments
DCE (47): good team, one strong D1 recruit, other DIII recruits

2025:

DCE (8)
ML (12)
NL (13)

2026:

DCE (8)
NL (14): will prob rise a bit. Roster is new due to--again--large number of ML refugees who joined in the spring.
ML (39): have dropped this summer due to loss of core players to NL.

2027:
NL (20)
ML (23)
DCE (91): this grad year has been a problem child for DCE the past few years, hearing they picked up some new guys but we'll see.

2028:
ML (28)
NL (35): were top 20 but had a rough spring and summer.
DCE (NR): new DCE team starts this year with core of old BLC Blue team (56) plus 7-8 refugees from--you guessed it--Madlax.



2028:

Does the 2026 VLC team still seem to stand a chance against ML and NL?

Current team could give ML a run but not NL. The current VLC team is 50/50 split of private/public and legacy Dulles South A players.

[Anonymous]

Next Level has a deeper roster than VLC, and both would beat MadLax. MadLax is "rebuilding," to put it nicely.

[Anonymous]

What happened to Hard Lax?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happened to Hard Lax?

I think they folded. haven't heard from them in a couple of years. if anyone knows differently, please share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

his entire 2028 team just blew up after summer as well. They were top 5 team in the country a year ago. Boys hit puberty and have enough of CM. DCE and NL the only game in town at 28

[Anonymous]

ML 28s blew up. Bigger than the ML 26 and 24 meltdowns combined. 9 kids went to DCE and 2 to NL. Same old same, but this one stung the program particularly badly because the 28s had consistently been one of ML's best teams. Won NLF back to back, but had a bad summer purely based off the toxic environment created by the coach (yes, it was CM, of course because he has a son on the team). If you want a complete rundown on what happened. I highly suggest you take a look at the 28 thread on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

How are the 2029s looking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ML 28s blew up. Bigger than the ML 26 and 24 meltdowns combined. 9 kids went to DCE and 2 to NL. Same old same, but this one stung the program particularly badly because the 28s had consistently been one of ML's best teams. Won NLF back to back, but had a bad summer purely based off the toxic environment created by the coach (yes, it was CM, of course because he has a son on the team). If you want a complete rundown on what happened. I highly suggest you take a look at the 28 thread on DCUM.

Just saw this on Back of the Cage.....

DCE28 parent here. We just received notice that CM from Madlax is trying to block us (and only the 28s) from playing NAL this fall. Guess he's replaying the NLF model he has used on Next Level for years. If your kid plays for an NAL member club, you should light them up for blocking a team that wants to compete. Pretty weak sauce taking out your failures as an owner and coach on a group of 8th graders....but I guess we should have assumed this would happen given the fact several players on the new 28 DCE team is made up of old MLers who saw the light.

Thought I would just put that out there for the salty BOTC community to digest. It's weird he is focusing on DCE, though, given a sizeable percentage of existing ML players -- across several age groups -- are playing for MOJOs this Fall. The guy can't even control what happens in his own house as it is collapsing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ML 28s blew up. Bigger than the ML 26 and 24 meltdowns combined. 9 kids went to DCE and 2 to NL. Same old same, but this one stung the program particularly badly because the 28s had consistently been one of ML's best teams. Won NLF back to back, but had a bad summer purely based off the toxic environment created by the coach (yes, it was CM, of course because he has a son on the team). If you want a complete rundown on what happened. I highly suggest you take a look at the 28 thread on DCUM.

Just saw this on Back of the Cage.....

DCE28 parent here. We just received notice that CM from Madlax is trying to block us (and only the 28s) from playing NAL this fall. Guess he's replaying the NLF model he has used on Next Level for years. If your kid plays for an NAL member club, you should light them up for blocking a team that wants to compete. Pretty weak sauce taking out your failures as an owner and coach on a group of 8th graders....but I guess we should have assumed this would happen given the fact several players on the new 28 DCE team is made up of old MLers who saw the light.

Thought I would just put that out there for the salty BOTC community to digest. It's weird he is focusing on DCE, though, given a sizeable percentage of existing ML players -- across several age groups -- are playing for MOJOs this Fall. The guy can't even control what happens in his own house as it is collapsing.

Take it to the 28 page. 26 DCE will play NLF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Next Level has replaced Mad lax as the premier Club program in the DMV.

Cabbbel has simply burnt too many bridges and it’s finally starting to catch up to his club teams.

His 2025 team is last strong HS team.

His stronger MS teams will most likely jumó ship by the time they are freshman in HS.

See below. These rankings aren't perfect but they're generally accurate. Each of the local clubs has some standout age groups, each has one or more years where they're not as strong.

Def seeing a pattern though of Madlax players bailing to join other clubs, over the past few years, that goes above and beyond normal attrition.

_______________________________________________

US Club Lax Rankings

2024:

NL (8): really strong team stocked with a large number of ML refugees
ML (35): good team with a significant number of D1 commitments
DCE (47): good team, one strong D1 recruit, other DIII recruits

2025:

DCE (8)
ML (12)
NL (13)

2026:

DCE (8)
NL (14): will prob rise a bit. Roster is new due to--again--large number of ML refugees who joined in the spring.
ML (39): have dropped this summer due to loss of core players to NL.

2027:
NL (20)
ML (23)
DCE (91): this grad year has been a problem child for DCE the past few years, hearing they picked up some new guys but we'll see.

2028:
ML (28)
NL (35): were top 20 but had a rough spring and summer.
DCE (NR): new DCE team starts this year with core of old BLC Blue team (56) plus 7-8 refugees from--you guessed it--Madlax.



2028:

So it's like this for DMV teams through 2026 from US Club Lax?

2024:
1. NL (8)
2. ML (35)
3. VLC (38)
4. DCE (47)
5. True NOVA (153)

But the ML 2024 team seems to have better recruiting results.

2025:
1. DCE (8)
2. ML (12)
3. NL (13)
4. VLC (107)
5. Top Caliber (133)

2026:
1. DCE (8)
2. NL (14)
3. ML (39)
4. VLC (42)
5. TRW Wolfpack (77)