Capital Orange Parents - If you could do it all over again

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

All true except for the fact that 2023 Capital Blue beat Pride 2023 the only time they ever played.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

Where is that recruiting director now, the one from GMU? Did she get fired?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

Where is that recruiting director now, the one from GMU? Did she get fired?

She was also an athletic director at a school around Baltimore and she is probably still there. She "left" due to other obligations. The new director is much better, but as the PP noted given the 23 debacle, all future Pride Black teams will be relegated to being ranked in the 50's range as the best move to CLC B.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

Where is that recruiting director now, the one from GMU? Did she get fired?

She was also an athletic director at a school around Baltimore and she is probably still there. She "left" due to other obligations. The new director is much better, but as the PP noted given the 23 debacle, all future Pride Black teams will be relegated to being ranked in the 50's range as the best move to CLC B.

Eh, I don't know that things are destined to be this way forever. If the new recruiting director is good and builds relationships with some families, where they trust her, she could get some families to stay. Especially in time. Those Capital tryouts sound stressful. I'd rather avoid the circus if I had another option.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, absolutely. 2026 Orange sidelines full of great coaches. Either your kid is going to do the work and continue to do the work or they aren’t. We are at the age where you should move away from doing things from your children. Their habits will tell you everything you need to know about how successful they will be. Driving to a further away team won’t magically make them a better player.

I agree. lots of coaches on the sidelines for 2026 orange but your daughter has to put in the work emailing coaches etc

Some college coaches will not consider any B team player. They will take a player that is on a lesser A team or only a single-year team over a B team player. They may not have been there for the Orange team. Not fair, but it is how it is.

Also, Capital will absolutely try to push Blue players over Orange players when they call and ask about an Orange player if Blue still needs a school.

Your credibility would be helped enormously if you explained how you would know all this.

I can tell the person who wrote knows what they r talking about regarding how Capital treats 🍊, everyone that is experienced with dmv girls lax recruiting knows this to be true. Just talk to a few Capital Orange families. For the 24 Orange team, in the end they were able to get a group into Amherst, and a few never committed. A team at another club who has the best recruiting experience for over 20 years. Don’t be afraid, to take A team at Stars, MCE, VaMetro. Don’t be fooled by the new brand in town.

Wait. So the coaches of Capital have taken phone calls for an Orange player in front of everyone that is experienced with dmv lax recruiting and directed them to a Blue player instead? In full view of all of these people? This defies credulity, please make it make sense.

does everything you know to be true been validated by every single person ? It makes sense b/c it happened/s.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, absolutely. 2026 Orange sidelines full of great coaches. Either your kid is going to do the work and continue to do the work or they aren’t. We are at the age where you should move away from doing things from your children. Their habits will tell you everything you need to know about how successful they will be. Driving to a further away team won’t magically make them a better player.

I agree. lots of coaches on the sidelines for 2026 orange but your daughter has to put in the work emailing coaches etc

Some college coaches will not consider any B team player. They will take a player that is on a lesser A team or only a single-year team over a B team player. They may not have been there for the Orange team. Not fair, but it is how it is.

Also, Capital will absolutely try to push Blue players over Orange players when they call and ask about an Orange player if Blue still needs a school.

Your credibility would be helped enormously if you explained how you would know all this.

I can tell the person who wrote knows what they r talking about regarding how Capital treats 🍊, everyone that is experienced with dmv girls lax recruiting knows this to be true. Just talk to a few Capital Orange families. For the 24 Orange team, in the end they were able to get a group into Amherst, and a few never committed. A team at another club who has the best recruiting experience for over 20 years. Don’t be afraid, to take A team at Stars, MCE, VaMetro. Don’t be fooled by the new brand in town.

How do you know the girls wanted Amherst instead of a less academic D1? Why are you referring to Amherst as if it is a consolation prize?

Well, it was not any of their first choice. At least one of them could def play at a higher lax school and chose Amherst over lower D1 academic school. Do your HW and ask the families how they feel it went. In the end they r fine with it b/c obviously academically it is a good fit girls who do great. And obviously some girls on 🍊are across abgw giruos do just fine, it is just a gamble, but so much of the college recruiting process is. Know your kid and where they can play.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

All true except for the fact that 2023 Capital Blue beat Pride 2023 the only time they ever played.

Yeah, that 23 Pride team was like ranked 25th. They didn't get recruited where they wanted because they weren't good enough. That's for top 5 and top 10 teams. But the myth grows larger seemingly every year with Pride 23.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, absolutely. 2026 Orange sidelines full of great coaches. Either your kid is going to do the work and continue to do the work or they aren’t. We are at the age where you should move away from doing things from your children. Their habits will tell you everything you need to know about how successful they will be. Driving to a further away team won’t magically make them a better player.

I agree. lots of coaches on the sidelines for 2026 orange but your daughter has to put in the work emailing coaches etc

Some college coaches will not consider any B team player. They will take a player that is on a lesser A team or only a single-year team over a B team player. They may not have been there for the Orange team. Not fair, but it is how it is.

Also, Capital will absolutely try to push Blue players over Orange players when they call and ask about an Orange player if Blue still needs a school.

Your credibility would be helped enormously if you explained how you would know all this.

I can tell the person who wrote knows what they r talking about regarding how Capital treats 🍊, everyone that is experienced with dmv girls lax recruiting knows this to be true. Just talk to a few Capital Orange families. For the 24 Orange team, in the end they were able to get a group into Amherst, and a few never committed. A team at another club who has the best recruiting experience for over 20 years. Don’t be afraid, to take A team at Stars, MCE, VaMetro. Don’t be fooled by the new brand in town.

Wait. So the coaches of Capital have taken phone calls for an Orange player in front of everyone that is experienced with dmv lax recruiting and directed them to a Blue player instead? In full view of all of these people? This defies credulity, please make it make sense.

does everything you know to be true been validated by every single person ? It makes sense b/c it happened/s.

It's okay. I was trying to figure out if the Cap coaches were just colossally stupid and doing in front of the wrong people (didn't make sense),or this was just a big game of telephone (makes sense).

A poster earlier confirmed it was the latter, "everybody" heard it happened when a college coach said something to someone once.

Kind of weird that parents live off this stuff, the excuses, but maybe it's just natural.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

All true except for the fact that 2023 Capital Blue beat Pride 2023 the only time they ever played.

Yeah, that 23 Pride team was like ranked 25th. They didn't get recruited where they wanted because they weren't good enough. That's for top 5 and top 10 teams. But the myth grows larger seemingly every year with Pride 23.

It’s funny how this topic gets some Capital parents’ panties in a wad, but we’ll play. That ‘23 class of girls pretty much stayed together for both Pride and what would become Capital from like 7th grade on. The only time that core Capital group beat Pride was the last year the teams played. That year the Pride team had inconsistent participation because girls had either quit playing lacrosse because of the recruiting fiasco or were off taking recruiting visits well past when they should have been. For some reason Capital treated that game as their Super Bowl, but understandable so since that class wanted to beat Pride at least once.

That Pride HS team reached a higher ranking than Capital, at one point being ranked 8th as the players started their high school years. Their final ranking was 24th and Capital 15th. Pride played the second hardest schedule that year only to YJ Thorn. The goal differential for both Pride and Capital was within +/- 1, so hardly indicative of the Pride players not being good against the best competition.

That final year there were no less than 3 area players of the year on Pride. None for Capital. Guess they weren’t good enough, so they should be thankful they had a good Capital recruiting experience, which is what this thread is about.

If it makes you feel better saying the girls were not good enough then go for it. Not many will buy what you’re selling. That team was loaded with talent and Pride did them no favors. Thankfully, that group had players that worked hard on their own and now play for top 25 programs, the ACC, service academies and high academics. Pride can’t take credit for any of this. Put those same girls in Capitals recruiting system and all would have easily been recruited.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

All true except for the fact that 2023 Capital Blue beat Pride 2023 the only time they ever played.

Yeah, that 23 Pride team was like ranked 25th. They didn't get recruited where they wanted because they weren't good enough. That's for top 5 and top 10 teams. But the myth grows larger seemingly every year with Pride 23.

It’s funny how this topic gets some Capital parents’ panties in a wad, but we’ll play. That ‘23 class of girls pretty much stayed together for both Pride and what would become Capital from like 7th grade on. The only time that core Capital group beat Pride was the last year the teams played. That year the Pride team had inconsistent participation because girls had either quit playing lacrosse because of the recruiting fiasco or were off taking recruiting visits well past when they should have been. For some reason Capital treated that game as their Super Bowl, but understandable so since that class wanted to beat Pride at least once.

That Pride HS team reached a higher ranking than Capital, at one point being ranked 8th as the players started their high school years. Their final ranking was 24th and Capital 15th. Pride played the second hardest schedule that year only to YJ Thorn. The goal differential for both Pride and Capital was within +/- 1, so hardly indicative of the Pride players not being good against the best competition.

That final year there were no less than 3 area players of the year on Pride. None for Capital. Guess they weren’t good enough, so they should be thankful they had a good Capital recruiting experience, which is what this thread is about.

If it makes you feel better saying the girls were not good enough then go for it. Not many will buy what you’re selling. That team was loaded with talent and Pride did them no favors. Thankfully, that group had players that worked hard on their own and now play for top 25 programs, the ACC, service academies and high academics. Pride can’t take credit for any of this. Put those same girls in Capitals recruiting system and all would have easily been recruited.

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The Pride parents treated the Capital/Pride game at Presidents Cup like the Super Bowl, while it was just another game to the Capital parents.

It is false that the Pride team had inconsistent participation at that point.

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So back to Capital Orange. How were the tryouts last night?

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Anonymous wrote:So back to Capital Orange. How were the tryouts last night?

There did not seem to be a lot of non Capital players at the try out.

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Anonymous wrote:Then explain why the recruiting for orange 25 was better than pride 25

They can't. It is sour grapes. Some people don't have realistic expectations for their fit.

Cap takes all of Pride’s good players. There is no one left to recruit. If Pride kept all their best kids, they would all go to top schools and Pride’s recruiting would best in class. Strategically, Cap has to take most of Pride’s kids. If Pride kept their kids and beat Capital, then they become obsolete.

Ok so why doesn’t Pride just keep their best players? Oh that’s right….

Please finish this thought for rest of us who don't understand. Why can't Pride hang on to their HS players? Is it the allure of Capital or recruiting probs at Pride? TIA

This is all rooted in the Pride 2023 class, which arguably had the best HS team in the area that year. That class with the exception of one player all chose to stay together, never even trying out for Capital, and trusting KM would live up to the recruiting promises made to players. Big mistake.

Pride’s recruiting efforts were green and poorly run with that class. The club lost their recruiting director, who went on to be the Head Coach at American. She was great and helpful, but the players were on their first high school year with her. But she had a plan for each player. The former GMU coach who took over simply did not care, had no plan for individual players, and seemed to have a general lack of interest in her job with Pride. KM did nothing to address the issue until it was too late for that class.

The 2023s who have gone on to play in college from that team did all the work on their own. Being the first true recruiting class for Pride they had no history to fall back on, no former recruits from the club to follow, and really no college coach connections to rely on from the club. As a result of all of this the class struggled with little guidance and know-how. The results were not good, and these fell squarely on KM and Pride.

This class was supposed to be KMs springboard for her HS program. She had a large group of the areas best players that played in the top brackets, had a top 5 strength of schedule, and played the best teams close. KM simply failed to capitalize on their talent. She could have built a great HS brand and experience on this class, but she threw it all away by not delivering on why most play club - to get recruited. The following Pride classes took notice and KM has not had a class like the 2023s willing to stay together since. Expectedly and wisely so, they have gone to back to Capital who does have a strong history of getting players recruited.

Where is that recruiting director now, the one from GMU? Did she get fired?

She was also an athletic director at a school around Baltimore and she is probably still there. She "left" due to other obligations. The new director is much better, but as the PP noted given the 23 debacle, all future Pride Black teams will be relegated to being ranked in the 50's range as the best move to CLC B.

she still is the AD

https://www.gfs.org/athletics/meet-the-staff

[Anonymous]

There should be a lot of 27 orange movement. Mostly down. If not, something is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There should be a lot of 27 orange movement. Mostly down. If not, something is wrong.

Did you mean down from blue to orange? Because down from orange means stars…