2025 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

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Anonymous wrote:Would DeMatha now have to play Ryken because DeMatha is the 1 seed and Ryken is the lowest seed remaining? Or is it pre determined that DeMatha has to play the winner of PVI vs. Gonzaga?

No
it is a bracket like college basketball

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Anonymous wrote:As long as Danny Paro remains the AD at Prep, expect nothing to change with who the head lacrosse coach is.

Prep alumni on a few occasions have tried to bring back Giblin and its fallen on deaf ears.

Correct. Also, the decision to start the freshman goalie over the senior was done with the backing of both the AD and the President. There's no chance that happened without their blessing. The GP alumni think they have some pull, they have none.

1. Goalie play is not the reason GP is having its worst season in over a decade. I'm not buying for a second the President of the school is involved with player personnel decisions on who starts vs who sits. The President of the school has much larger priorities to deal with then strategize for a lacrosse team.

2. GP alumni for the most part live under a rock. Not all but most of them I come across come off as arrogant and don't have much perspective on how the sport is evolving and growing. This is not the 1990's anymore and the legacy of the program is not going to attract talent to the school like it once did.

Prep has plenty of talent on its roster they just don't play well together as a team. Too much club / hero ball is on display at Prep. Several of their starters could start for Landon or Bullis or their peer schools from the WCAC (GZ or SJC or GC).

1. Starting a freshman goalie at a school like GP with the competition it plays sends a message to the rest of the team. The upperclassmen don't like it and they play differently when one of their guys is sat down. In addition, the senior was sat down in a game they were winning and hasn't seen the field since even over 6 straight losses. At any of the higher end tuition schools, you better believe the president knows exactly who is in the class and what kind of standing that family presents. The president at GP is very sharp and keenly aware of what is going on.

2. The only alumni GP and other high end schools care about are those who write a large check. You are correct in this is not the 1990's. The makeup of the school both in person and physical appearance resembles nothing of the 90's. GP just had a big fundraiser and almost every single donor was a parent and not an alum.

GP will continue to move farther away from MD as their senior leadership have all retired and relationships have aged out. Look for GP to grow more and more into a school more resembling Deerfield than GP circa 1990.

Prep is at a crossroads. Don’t see how they could mimic Deerfield who has a $500 endowment and is known internationally.

Prep has outgrown the IAC in terms of enrollment. They generally dominate the league across all sports because the school is 2x and even 3x the size of its IAC counterparts. Prep in the last 10 years has really started utilizing its boarding component for recruited athletes. Don’t believe me the #3 football recruit in the country is a boarder at Prep and they brought in a foot Chinese basketball player last summer - and don’t tell me these families are seeking a “Jesuit” school.

Academically, Prep is a phenomenal school. Academics rival STA (the top students at prep would do just fine there). College matriculation is very strong.

It still gets a good amount of its students from local parish schools (vs kids coming from public or independents) but this percentage is definitely dropping. To your point, the makeup of prep looks vastly different to what it was just 15 years ago.

You had me until “academics rival STA”. Just no. Leave that part out because it’s not true and you know it. Of course the top students at Prep and most independent schools would do well at STA. But the rigor of STA would bury the other 80% at Prep, Landon, and all the others. This is why STA will never win an IAC title in lacrosse anytime soon if ever. Top athletes who spend endless hours training, traveling, playing, and partying would rather coast to weighted gpa’s at other schools and leverage their lax or other sports to get into Princeton and the like. Can’t blame them whatsoever.

Also, Prep is nowhere near Deerfield. That was silly, whoever said that. Prep is Prep - too big for the IAC and too small for the WCAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SJC fan without the history to be caught up in the 2022 halcyon days. That said, I find the general obsession and negativity on this thread toward today's team and coach to be ridiculous and telling.

Here's my take: SMR played hard wire to wire. Really wanted it. Great effort on the 50/50 balls and opportunistic on the broken plays. Did not look like a #7 seed and took better care of the ball in crunch time. Good luck to them in the Semis.

You seem normal and gracious enough. The negativity is not directed at you, but at the sizable contingent of the parents and student athletes who have come to define the visitors Military Road Experience. They have earned the ire directed towards them.

[Anonymous]

We hate all teams, coaches, and lax dads equally on these boards.

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Anonymous wrote:
The Top 5 in the DMV

1. SJC
2. Prep
3. PVI
4. Landon
5. Spalding
6. St. Anthony's (NY)
7. GZ
8. Bullis
9. Lawrenceville (NJ)
10. Culver Academy (IND)
11. DM
12. The Hill School (Ont.)
13. omitted for Covid-19
14. Bishop MacNamara
15. Good Counsel
16. STA
17. Haverbrook (PA)
18. The Heights JV team
19. The Heights Varsity team
20. SMR (who admittedly beat the #1 team on this list.)

Haha. This is one of the funnier things I’ve read on here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As long as Danny Paro remains the AD at Prep, expect nothing to change with who the head lacrosse coach is.

Prep alumni on a few occasions have tried to bring back Giblin and its fallen on deaf ears.

Correct. Also, the decision to start the freshman goalie over the senior was done with the backing of both the AD and the President. There's no chance that happened without their blessing. The GP alumni think they have some pull, they have none.

1. Goalie play is not the reason GP is having its worst season in over a decade. I'm not buying for a second the President of the school is involved with player personnel decisions on who starts vs who sits. The President of the school has much larger priorities to deal with then strategize for a lacrosse team.

2. GP alumni for the most part live under a rock. Not all but most of them I come across come off as arrogant and don't have much perspective on how the sport is evolving and growing. This is not the 1990's anymore and the legacy of the program is not going to attract talent to the school like it once did.

Prep has plenty of talent on its roster they just don't play well together as a team. Too much club / hero ball is on display at Prep. Several of their starters could start for Landon or Bullis or their peer schools from the WCAC (GZ or SJC or GC).

1. Starting a freshman goalie at a school like GP with the competition it plays sends a message to the rest of the team. The upperclassmen don't like it and they play differently when one of their guys is sat down. In addition, the senior was sat down in a game they were winning and hasn't seen the field since even over 6 straight losses. At any of the higher end tuition schools, you better believe the president knows exactly who is in the class and what kind of standing that family presents. The president at GP is very sharp and keenly aware of what is going on.

2. The only alumni GP and other high end schools care about are those who write a large check. You are correct in this is not the 1990's. The makeup of the school both in person and physical appearance resembles nothing of the 90's. GP just had a big fundraiser and almost every single donor was a parent and not an alum.

GP will continue to move farther away from MD as their senior leadership have all retired and relationships have aged out. Look for GP to grow more and more into a school more resembling Deerfield than GP circa 1990.

GEORGETOWN PREP LACROSSE NEEDS TO RETURN TO WHERE THEY WERE IN 90'S!!! -- So... losing in the semis and never beating Landon? Looks like you're already there, chap

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Kudos to Ryken they came ready to play and took it to SJC. Those Southern MD boys can play and earned their spot in the semis. The Ryken fans are must see... the passion is top notch.

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To qualify for top 10, you have to beat a top 10 team. Sorry EHS. Heights actually beat SMR. This list ranks teams on 2025 performance alone, not on historic brand of the school's lax past. Wins in May, when teams are playing for banners (not the PVI mom-made kind) weigh more than wins in March. The path to the WCAC title runs through GC (sorry SMR). Pretty amazing turnaround job by Dane. Good luck to all still playing.

1. Landon
2. Bullis
3. DeMatha
4. Good Counsel
5. Gonzaga
6. St. Mary's Ryken
7. Georgetown Prep
8. St. John's
9. St. Albans
10. Heights

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Anonymous wrote:As long as Danny Paro remains the AD at Prep, expect nothing to change with who the head lacrosse coach is.

Prep alumni on a few occasions have tried to bring back Giblin and its fallen on deaf ears.

Correct. Also, the decision to start the freshman goalie over the senior was done with the backing of both the AD and the President. There's no chance that happened without their blessing. The GP alumni think they have some pull, they have none.

1. Goalie play is not the reason GP is having its worst season in over a decade. I'm not buying for a second the President of the school is involved with player personnel decisions on who starts vs who sits. The President of the school has much larger priorities to deal with then strategize for a lacrosse team.

2. GP alumni for the most part live under a rock. Not all but most of them I come across come off as arrogant and don't have much perspective on how the sport is evolving and growing. This is not the 1990's anymore and the legacy of the program is not going to attract talent to the school like it once did.

Prep has plenty of talent on its roster they just don't play well together as a team. Too much club / hero ball is on display at Prep. Several of their starters could start for Landon or Bullis or their peer schools from the WCAC (GZ or SJC or GC).

1. Starting a freshman goalie at a school like GP with the competition it plays sends a message to the rest of the team. The upperclassmen don't like it and they play differently when one of their guys is sat down. In addition, the senior was sat down in a game they were winning and hasn't seen the field since even over 6 straight losses. At any of the higher end tuition schools, you better believe the president knows exactly who is in the class and what kind of standing that family presents. The president at GP is very sharp and keenly aware of what is going on.

2. The only alumni GP and other high end schools care about are those who write a large check. You are correct in this is not the 1990's. The makeup of the school both in person and physical appearance resembles nothing of the 90's. GP just had a big fundraiser and almost every single donor was a parent and not an alum.

GP will continue to move farther away from MD as their senior leadership have all retired and relationships have aged out. Look for GP to grow more and more into a school more resembling Deerfield than GP circa 1990.

Prep is at a crossroads. Don’t see how they could mimic Deerfield who has a $500 endowment and is known internationally.

Prep has outgrown the IAC in terms of enrollment. They generally dominate the league across all sports because the school is 2x and even 3x the size of its IAC counterparts. Prep in the last 10 years has really started utilizing its boarding component for recruited athletes. Don’t believe me the #3 football recruit in the country is a boarder at Prep and they brought in a foot Chinese basketball player last summer - and don’t tell me these families are seeking a “Jesuit” school.

Academically, Prep is a phenomenal school. Academics rival STA (the top students at prep would do just fine there). College matriculation is very strong.

It still gets a good amount of its students from local parish schools (vs kids coming from public or independents) but this percentage is definitely dropping. To your point, the makeup of prep looks vastly different to what it was just 15 years ago.

You had me until “academics rival STA”. Just no. Leave that part out because it’s not true and you know it. Of course the top students at Prep and most independent schools would do well at STA. But the rigor of STA would bury the other 80% at Prep, Landon, and all the others. This is why STA will never win an IAC title in lacrosse anytime soon if ever. Top athletes who spend endless hours training, traveling, playing, and partying would rather coast to weighted gpa’s at other schools and leverage their lax or other sports to get into Princeton and the like. Can’t blame them whatsoever.

Also, Prep is nowhere near Deerfield. That was silly, whoever said that. Prep is Prep - too big for the IAC and too small for the WCAC.

For those on here who have an axe to grind against the Prep goalie, who is a freshman, he played lights out yesterday against Bullis. He kept Prep in the game as Bullis outshot the Hoyas by 2x yesterday.

I'm not buying any Mad Lax or IL hype for #5 for Prep. You can't tell me he is a top 4 player in the class of 2026 when Prep managed to only score 5 goals yesterday. He did absolutely nothing against Landon a week prior as well. All the Prep fanatics who think he is the 2nd coming of Kabari or Burns are idiots.

These Prep teams look mentally soft when you compare them to the Giblin era. Too many turnovers, not picking up the GBs. GP's squad mimics a club lax team - a bunch of individuals who care about their stat line. The culture of its team must change if you expect the Hoyas to bounce back in 2026.

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The WCAC definitely took a year off and should be extremely competitive again next year.
SJC, GZ, PVI and GC have junior heavy classes.
H is thin but will be score goals when they get it across midfield
DM will drop hard.
STMR - who knows
BOC, BM, IR will still provide ez wins for everyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:Pick up the phone Speaks

Speaks does pick up the phone. Played a tougher schedule than Landon or Bullis.

When you look back at the entire body of work, both the Bears' and Bulldogs' SOS have a stronger RPI than the Cadets; these are just facts.

At some point, Speaks is going to have to win one of these marquee non-conference games vs settling for moral victories. Similar to Prep, some of these 2026 players we hear about (some even committed) are overhyped by these club lax clowns and won't ever see the field in college. I've said this before: 50% of the signees never step on the field in college, and some even quit the sport altogether by the time they are juniors; again these are just facts.

It's probably a good thing, Landon or Bullis didn't play the Cadets this year, as it would have been a beatdown.

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Anonymous wrote:As long as Danny Paro remains the AD at Prep, expect nothing to change with who the head lacrosse coach is.

Prep alumni on a few occasions have tried to bring back Giblin and its fallen on deaf ears.

Correct. Also, the decision to start the freshman goalie over the senior was done with the backing of both the AD and the President. There's no chance that happened without their blessing. The GP alumni think they have some pull, they have none.

1. Goalie play is not the reason GP is having its worst season in over a decade. I'm not buying for a second the President of the school is involved with player personnel decisions on who starts vs who sits. The President of the school has much larger priorities to deal with then strategize for a lacrosse team.

2. GP alumni for the most part live under a rock. Not all but most of them I come across come off as arrogant and don't have much perspective on how the sport is evolving and growing. This is not the 1990's anymore and the legacy of the program is not going to attract talent to the school like it once did.

Prep has plenty of talent on its roster they just don't play well together as a team. Too much club / hero ball is on display at Prep. Several of their starters could start for Landon or Bullis or their peer schools from the WCAC (GZ or SJC or GC).

1. Starting a freshman goalie at a school like GP with the competition it plays sends a message to the rest of the team. The upperclassmen don't like it and they play differently when one of their guys is sat down. In addition, the senior was sat down in a game they were winning and hasn't seen the field since even over 6 straight losses. At any of the higher end tuition schools, you better believe the president knows exactly who is in the class and what kind of standing that family presents. The president at GP is very sharp and keenly aware of what is going on.

2. The only alumni GP and other high end schools care about are those who write a large check. You are correct in this is not the 1990's. The makeup of the school both in person and physical appearance resembles nothing of the 90's. GP just had a big fundraiser and almost every single donor was a parent and not an alum.

GP will continue to move farther away from MD as their senior leadership have all retired and relationships have aged out. Look for GP to grow more and more into a school more resembling Deerfield than GP circa 1990.

Prep is at a crossroads. Don’t see how they could mimic Deerfield who has a $500 endowment and is known internationally.

Prep has outgrown the IAC in terms of enrollment. They generally dominate the league across all sports because the school is 2x and even 3x the size of its IAC counterparts. Prep in the last 10 years has really started utilizing its boarding component for recruited athletes. Don’t believe me the #3 football recruit in the country is a boarder at Prep and they brought in a foot Chinese basketball player last summer - and don’t tell me these families are seeking a “Jesuit” school.

Academically, Prep is a phenomenal school. Academics rival STA (the top students at prep would do just fine there). College matriculation is very strong.

It still gets a good amount of its students from local parish schools (vs kids coming from public or independents) but this percentage is definitely dropping. To your point, the makeup of prep looks vastly different to what it was just 15 years ago.

You had me until “academics rival STA”. Just no. Leave that part out because it’s not true and you know it. Of course the top students at Prep and most independent schools would do well at STA. But the rigor of STA would bury the other 80% at Prep, Landon, and all the others. This is why STA will never win an IAC title in lacrosse anytime soon if ever. Top athletes who spend endless hours training, traveling, playing, and partying would rather coast to weighted gpa’s at other schools and leverage their lax or other sports to get into Princeton and the like. Can’t blame them whatsoever.

Also, Prep is nowhere near Deerfield. That was silly, whoever said that. Prep is Prep - too big for the IAC and too small for the WCAC.

For those on here who have an axe to grind against the Prep goalie, who is a freshman, he played lights out yesterday against Bullis. He kept Prep in the game as Bullis outshot the Hoyas by 2x yesterday.

I'm not buying any Mad Lax or IL hype for #5 for Prep. You can't tell me he is a top 4 player in the class of 2026 when Prep managed to only score 5 goals yesterday. He did absolutely nothing against Landon a week prior as well. All the Prep fanatics who think he is the 2nd coming of Kabari or Burns are idiots.

These Prep teams look mentally soft when you compare them to the Giblin era. Too many turnovers, not picking up the GBs. GP's squad mimics a club lax team - a bunch of individuals who care about their stat line. The culture of its team must change if you expect the Hoyas to bounce back in 2026.

Starting the freshman goalie and never turning back was a mistake. It was bad for team morale and it was bad on the field. Keeping them in the game and allowing 5 in the 4th is what a freshman will do. It's not a criticism of the kid, but it was predictable.
GP has had a myriad of problems and they were masked by Kabiri and Burns: Dr. Q collar is a nightmare, the Megill brothers coming and going right away, Coach's personal life, student disciplinary issues, potential students choosing Landon, SJC and GZ over GP (it used to be just GZ), definitely undisciplined me-first play by the leaders on the field, and probably other reasons.
Any one of these could be overcome, but the combination led to a sub .500 season.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Pick up the phone Speaks

Speaks does pick up the phone. Played a tougher schedule than Landon or Bullis.

When you look back at the entire body of work, both the Bears' and Bulldogs' SOS have a stronger RPI than the Cadets; these are just facts.

At some point, Speaks is going to have to win one of these marquee non-conference games vs settling for moral victories. Similar to Prep, some of these 2026 players we hear about (some even committed) are overhyped by these club lax clowns and won't ever see the field in college. I've said this before: 50% of the signees never step on the field in college, and some even quit the sport altogether by the time they are juniors; again these are just facts.

It's probably a good thing, Landon or Bullis didn't play the Cadets this year, as it would have been a beatdown.

He has a point re recruited vs impact. There’s maybe one or two players in any given game in the DMV (sometimes more, often none) where you can tell a kid will likely make an impact at some point in the college game (barring injury - see UVA’s freshman class) but the rest of the recruited are varying degrees of filler. And that’s ok bc hey, you got recruited and that’s an accomplishment itself and provided you used it to get to a reach school you otherwise wouldn’t, congrats. But it’s easy to fool yourself into conflating the two.

I do think this season has revealed the well coached and the poorly coached more than any in recent memory.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To qualify for top 10, you have to beat a top 10 team. Sorry EHS. Heights actually beat SMR. This list ranks teams on 2025 performance alone, not on historic brand of the school's lax past. Wins in May, when teams are playing for banners (not the PVI mom-made kind) weigh more than wins in March. The path to the WCAC title runs through GC (sorry SMR). Pretty amazing turnaround job by Dane. Good luck to all still playing.

1. Landon
2. Bullis
3. DeMatha
4. Good Counsel
5. Gonzaga
6. St. Mary's Ryken
7. Georgetown Prep
8. St. John's
9. St. Albans
10. Heights

I would rearrange your bottom five and drop Prep a spot or two lower but this is a solid take. That neither EHS or PVI belonged in this conversation was clear by the second week of April if not earlier. There’s always next year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:To qualify for top 10, you have to beat a top 10 team. Sorry EHS. Heights actually beat SMR. This list ranks teams on 2025 performance alone, not on historic brand of the school's lax past. Wins in May, when teams are playing for banners (not the PVI mom-made kind) weigh more than wins in March. The path to the WCAC title runs through GC (sorry SMR). Pretty amazing turnaround job by Dane. Good luck to all still playing.

1. Landon
2. Bullis
3. DeMatha
4. Good Counsel
5. Gonzaga
6. St. Mary's Ryken
7. Georgetown Prep
8. St. John's
9. St. Albans
10. Heights

I would rearrange your bottom five and drop Prep a spot or two lower but this is a solid take. That neither EHS or PVI belonged in this conversation was clear by the second week of April if not earlier. There’s always next year.

That takes the V out of the DMV though. If you add STAB you could check that box, but that would be really stretching the map, which might logically require reaching into MIAA and then pretty much all but the top 2-3 DM”V” teams are out. Interesting.