Capital Tryouts
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Anonymous
The reason this may be true about the top 6 orange v. the top 6 blue players is that we are not really talking about "great" players. We are talking about good or above average players. On a team like Capital Blue the game play, offense, defense, goalie play is dominated by the top players who are clearly better than the orange B team players. The last six on any team don't really impact the outcome that much. The problem is that these players are lost in the recruiting field. The orange players that do go D1 often do so through prospect days, UA/AS or HS teams. They are also later recruits who fill roster spots due to high GPA's. These same players may do even better as feature players on a VA Metro. I think the real issue is that Capital is not as transparent as they should be with players at tryouts about orange/blue teams. |
Anonymous
| VA Metro is a sad club that is sinking fast, wouldn't even mention them in this thread or consider going there unless they want no communication from the owners, fun fun all the time and no teaching of lax, no recruiting, etc... They are better off being sold at this point than limping along |
Anonymous
17 2023 college commits beg to differ. Nice try though. |
Anonymous
Agreed with pp, that VA Metro is a joke. That's why every kid in NOVA is dying to go to VAM. 
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Anonymous
| Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax. |
Anonymous
| Their downfall may be the recent addition of multiple kids to their teams with questionable skills for political reasons. |
Anonymous
| If Capital Orange is ranked lower than Pride Black wouldn't/should you play for the better ranked team from a recruiting perspective? |
Anonymous
LI Yellow Jackets. 7 Capital 25 Blue 6 I guess so... |
Anonymous
not necessarily. The rankings r nice bragging rights, but does not equate to automatic recruiting success. |
Anonymous
Can you share more? Girls were recently added outside of the tryout cycle? How many/what teams? |
Anonymous
Capital had a great weekend at LLL. Marginal goal differentials with top national clubs across the board. More competitive than other DC programs against higher-ranked teams. Your relationship with a Capital competitor is clear from your comment. For those who aren’t familiar with club lacrosse, and are genuinely interested in how Capital operates, I’ll try to explain. The club season is about recruiting (this isn’t HS). Being competitive is what matters. Not winning. Capital is successful at recruiting because the program (unlike most clubs) implements an equal-playing-time rule — and still shows it can hang with the best teams in the nation. Equal playing time gives more kids more game minutes to show their stuff to coaches. More game minutes for each player means more opportunities to get more players recruited. Equal playing time doesn’t prioritize winning. It prioritizes recruiting. Other clubs don’t do this. They keep the best players on the field (and bench those who may not be quite as strong) to try and win. They think this will attract more coaches to the sidelines. But this only helps a handful of top players — not the team — get recruited. (Translation: it’s hard to get recruited when you’re rarely on the field). College coaches recruit individual players, of course — not entire teams. Any coach will tell you a team club win doesn’t matter to them. They care about how the girls play, compete and perform against the best teams when they hit the field. Parents need to accept the equal playing rotation at Capital if their girls are strong enough to make the cut. The most competitive kids want to be on the field when close games are on the line. But Capital’s philo helps the team maximize recruiting success, which is what it’s all about. There’s a method to Capital’s approach and it seems to be working. The vast majority of 23s are committed to some great D1 schools. It’s why Capital continues to be the most dominant DC-area girls lax club that sends the most kids to the best colleges in the country. |
Anonymous
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To clarify none of this applies to the Orange B
Teams. |
Anonymous
CLC 23s did very well for sure but are they an anomaly due to covid when coaches couldn’t watch games? An interesting issue to watch. |
Anonymous
Covid impacted the 22s. For the 23s, college coaches were able to sit sideline for the entire summer tournament season leading up to the opening of the Sept. 1 recruiting window. |
Anonymous
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To clarify none of this applies to the Orange B
Teams. Not true - Orange has equal playing time as well and as a result the kids that are good enough to play in college get recruited - probably about 60-70% of the team in an average year |