2027 Girls Lacrosse

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looks like NGLL finally wised up and moved the games out of Word of Grace.

What was wrong with WOG? I enjoyed not having to drive to MD.

Other than no 8 meter lines, and the turf torn up in spots, broken glass by sidelines?

It's pretty bad when families from Baltimore come to VA and think it's a dump.

I mean St Pauls, Roland Park, Maryvale, Garrison Forest are some of the best campus' around. VA people need to suck it up and drive or do their own VA NGLL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like NGLL finally wised up and moved the games out of Word of Grace.

What was wrong with WOG? I enjoyed not having to drive to MD.

Other than no 8 meter lines, and the turf torn up in spots, broken glass by sidelines?

It's pretty bad when families from Baltimore come to VA and think it's a dump.

I mean St Pauls, Roland Park, Maryvale, Garrison Forest are some of the best campus' around. VA people need to suck it up and drive or do their own VA NGLL.

I think the solution is to just use nicer fields in VA. - Madeira, St. James, Nike Park, Visi, etc. as another user mentioned. Northern VA has them....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like NGLL finally wised up and moved the games out of Word of Grace.

What was wrong with WOG? I enjoyed not having to drive to MD.

Other than no 8 meter lines, and the turf torn up in spots, broken glass by sidelines?

It's pretty bad when families from Baltimore come to VA and think it's a dump.

I mean St Pauls, Roland Park, Maryvale, Garrison Forest are some of the best campus' around. VA people need to suck it up and drive or do their own VA NGLL.

I think the solution is to just use nicer fields in VA. - Madeira, St. James, Nike Park, Visi, etc. as another user mentioned. Northern VA has them....

+1 there are plenty of options in NoVA

[Anonymous]

22 kids x $3500 = $77,000
6 teams for middle school = $462,000 for the club
Roughly 36 NGLL teams per grade x 3 grades = 108 teams

Over $8million in dues for all of these teams and we can’t pay more money for better trained refs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22 kids x $3500 = $77,000
6 teams for middle school = $462,000 for the club
Roughly 36 NGLL teams per grade x 3 grades = 108 teams

Over $8million in dues for all of these teams and we can’t pay more money for better trained refs?

I really hope you aren't an accountant - this math don't make no sense.

I'll let Frank Martin say it - https://youtu.be/Dki7xQXmYLk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of miss the drive to Baltimore since my kid aged out.

Can imagine missing the car time with your daughter, for sure. But I won't miss taking the family's life in our hands every weekend on the northwestern section of the Beltway, or having to leave an hour early to avoid missing a game due to a rollover or some other nonsense on 95 north.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a dumb comment, don’t complain about your kid’s teacher cause you aren’t a teacher yourself. Don’t criticize the truck driver unless you drive a truck yourself. Sorry, we all pay good money, NGLL should have refs educated on the rules and fields that are lined and safe.

Let me go to your job stand outside your office and scream obscenities and threaten violence because you can't fill out a f-ng spreadsheet Karen..........

All the post on here about how the refs suck, and the leagues suck, the coaches suck - but time and time again its the actions from parents and coaches towards refs that are the most appalling.

Who in their right mind is going to spend there weekends for crap money to get yelled at by people who have never played, coach or reffed. Hell most of y'all can't jog the length of the field.

I love Lax and what it is offering my daughter - hype up the positive and try to be constructive about the negative.

What this guy said!

Girls lax is an awesome game. Girls get fit, stronger, learn discipline, and teamwork. Pretty amazing for their health and self-esteem--unless we parents ruin it.

Seeing some really rough calls and misunderstanding of the game and rules from some refs this year--in addition to games being called completely differently on the physicality scale. Some refs allowing no touching, some allowing serious hacking. Apparently, we parents are going to have to just deal with it and take the high road. A quick "don't worry", or "stay aggressive", or "good hustle" is probably enough to signal your support for your daughter without setting the ref off.

Another negative phenomenon that is pretty prevalent, is the parents coaching from the sidelines, demanding that their daughter go to goal or take the draw, etc. Respectfully, at this level of club lacrosse, the girls are running plays. There is some flexibility in decision-making, but you have no idea what their coaches are expecting or what your player is seeing in the game flow. If you have a genuine confidence issue where your daughter is really missing opportunities within her team's system, save it for the car ride, or a follow up one on one... Just sounds selfish and critical to constantly harangue your daughter about doing it herself. Probably counterproductive.

Let's try and have a little more fun. If the girls are playing hard and improving, that's great--and probably good enough.

^^^ need more parents like you! THANK YOU!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of miss the drive to Baltimore since my kid aged out.

Can imagine missing the car time with your daughter, for sure. But I won't miss taking the family's life in our hands every weekend on the northwestern section of the Beltway, or having to leave an hour early to avoid missing a game due to a rollover or some other nonsense on 95 north.

Plus, lunch at the Abbey or some random crabhouse. What's not to like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of miss the drive to Baltimore since my kid aged out.

Can imagine missing the car time with your daughter, for sure. But I won't miss taking the family's life in our hands every weekend on the northwestern section of the Beltway, or having to leave an hour early to avoid missing a game due to a rollover or some other nonsense on 95 north.

DC Beltway no picnic for the 85% of NGLL teams coming from MD either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like NGLL finally wised up and moved the games out of Word of Grace.

What was wrong with WOG? I enjoyed not having to drive to MD.

Other than no 8 meter lines, and the turf torn up in spots, broken glass by sidelines?

How did NGLL sign off on having the fields as a game location with no 8m lines? Seems like poor planning.

Well, there were potholes in the fields they played NGLL nationals on last year.

[Anonymous]

NGLL likes basically free fields for NGLL. The people in VA who own fields like a couple of bucks for upkeep. Word of Grace doesn’t do upkeep, hence no 8m lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22 kids x $3500 = $77,000
6 teams for middle school = $462,000 for the club
Roughly 36 NGLL teams per grade x 3 grades = 108 teams

Over $8million in dues for all of these teams and we can’t pay more money for better trained refs?

The leagues charges 2k a team. The club fee is not part of the equation on how the league is managed, but they could do better. This has been happening for years, really no need for Stars and Pride to drive to Balto County to play each other - common sense but they don’t care. Put the work in league to make a schedule fair and reasonable, but they do what is easiest. They don’t care about the development of the girls, that is the point BTW, not who is the best team that has taken over the blog. Who is the best team in MS does not equate to success later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22 kids x $3500 = $77,000
6 teams for middle school = $462,000 for the club
Roughly 36 NGLL teams per grade x 3 grades = 108 teams

Over $8million in dues for all of these teams and we can’t pay more money for better trained refs?

The leagues charges 2k a team. The club fee is not part of the equation on how the league is managed, but they could do better. This has been happening for years, really no need for Stars and Pride to drive to Balto County to play each other - common sense but they don’t care. Put the work in league to make a schedule fair and reasonable, but they do what is easiest. They don’t care about the development of the girls, that is the point BTW, not who is the best team that has taken over the blog. Who is the best team in MS does not equate to success later.

Are we leaving out that $20 per player NGLL registration fee for signing up?

That's over 40K right there.

[Anonymous]

Question for 2027 Pride parents? Do most try out for Capital? Seems Pride 2027 is pretty solid team and could remain top-20 for HS if they all stay.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure a few will tryout for Capital. The team has a couple of good/strong female coaches though, so many may elect to stay.