2026 Girls Player Commitments🥍🥍

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:After watching all of this unfold for my daughter (2026) over the years, my observation is that the Capital Blue team is seen by college coaches as the top players in D.C. Frankly, because it is. These girls have already been vetted as the top players, so why go to a Pride, Cap Orange, Stars etc. until Capital Blue girls have all been signed? If girls on these teams were top players, they would be on Capital Blue. Unless colleges know they don't have a shot at this pool of players I wouldn't expect recruiting at other DMV clubs to really start until this group has been placed.

This might surprise you, but not every player decides jumping to the Cap cult is the way to go. And not every good player is identified in 8th grade. Also, not every club pushes their players to jump on the 1st offer that'll blow up in the first week of talking to coaches. So on the latter point, you may be correct.

That said, Cap has done a great job scraping talent away in 8th/rising 9th grade, and then claiming the recruits. Given how the 28s and 29s are playing out, the next couple years will be very interesting.

You'd be an idiot to turn down a spot on Capital Blue - unless it was to play for M&D or Hero's. I agree that Capital doesn't develop the players (scrapes talent is one way to put it), but they know what good looks like and if they are interested in your daughter you better 100% join the "cult" if the goal is to play for a college someone has heard of.

What about Orange? And are there girls who are misplaced on Orange and should be on Blue? Maybe they will leave Capital for another club?

It's possible, but that sorts itself after freshman year during summer tryouts. If you're still on Orange during sophomore year, that's most likely the final destination unless you head to another club.

Agreed. I'll add tie will go to the girl already on blue so an orange player needs to be clearly better.

It’s also by position. If your daughter is an orange middie, it’d be very hard to get on Blue bc there are already 7-8 girls ahead of your daughter. There have been some movements in A and D the last few years so if your orange player is a standout A or D on her team there is a chance she can be moved up.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly- Ivys give no merit or athletic. You either qualify for aid or pay in full.

The others you cite are expensive but you can get athletic, some merit, some stack athletic and merit and there may be aid also. Depends on the school. However, if you don’t need $$ at all, it also doesn’t take from 12.5 scholarships the coach is trying allocate. It doesn’t take away from being a great player to get the offer, but makes it cleaner and more simple. The family also can decide fast because they are not waiting for more information on aid and looking/comparing net cost calculations to see if they can afford the school.

So saying - look Cap wins because the most Ivies fast - or high academic fast - ignores this piece.

So all the Ivy recruits are full pay?

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

This is correct. In addition to coming from affluent families, I'd also give the girls credit for achieving elite grades and most likely high SAT/ACT scores. No brainer to go Ivy if the stars align. Other recruits have the ability to play at the Ivy league level but may not have the money or the grades.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:After watching all of this unfold for my daughter (2026) over the years, my observation is that the Capital Blue team is seen by college coaches as the top players in D.C. Frankly, because it is. These girls have already been vetted as the top players, so why go to a Pride, Cap Orange, Stars etc. until Capital Blue girls have all been signed? If girls on these teams were top players, they would be on Capital Blue. Unless colleges know they don't have a shot at this pool of players I wouldn't expect recruiting at other DMV clubs to really start until this group has been placed.

This might surprise you, but not every player decides jumping to the Cap cult is the way to go. And not every good player is identified in 8th grade. Also, not every club pushes their players to jump on the 1st offer that'll blow up in the first week of talking to coaches. So on the latter point, you may be correct.

That said, Cap has done a great job scraping talent away in 8th/rising 9th grade, and then claiming the recruits. Given how the 28s and 29s are playing out, the next couple years will be very interesting.

You'd be an idiot to turn down a spot on Capital Blue - unless it was to play for M&D or Hero's. I agree that Capital doesn't develop the players (scrapes talent is one way to put it), but they know what good looks like and if they are interested in your daughter you better 100% join the "cult" if the goal is to play for a college someone has heard of.

What about Orange? And are there girls who are misplaced on Orange and should be on Blue? Maybe they will leave Capital for another club?

Unfortunately, it will be too late to try and make M&D or heroes at the A-Team level, and those are the only other places where it would be worth moving

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^ since it's 100000%, can you explain what you think this means? how is the brand a selling point to college coaches, in your estimation?

1. I can tell you that my daughter numerous times heard from coaches at camps how much they love Capital players.

2. The coaches from Capital no all of the college coaches.

3. The recruiting Director has connections.

Can the same be said for M&D and Heros….Absolutely! other local clubs…I’m not so sure.

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

“fortunate financial position” is the key and the entitled attitude that those who may not be in the same position don’t also want to prioritize their futures over the sport alone is ridiculous. Heck, they may also have just as good of grades and SATs and will have a bright future after college at a non-ivy school.

It is not a no-brainer actually even if you can technically afford it - but it will exhaust all your college resources - to think about if another school makes sense and you save the money for medical school or law school or grad school. That IS thinking about the future post lax.

Also love the defensive nature trying to assert that they all had multiple offers … OK. The point is others with multiple offers take longer because there is a financial analysis families are doing weighing total net cost of schools and offers that can provide merit and athletic. Some actually turn down the Ivy League - gasp - even in the past some CLC players. I guess they threw their whole future after lacrosse away according to you because they didn’t “get it”.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly- Ivys give no merit or athletic. You either qualify for aid or pay in full.

The others you cite are expensive but you can get athletic, some merit, some stack athletic and merit and there may be aid also. Depends on the school. However, if you don’t need $$ at all, it also doesn’t take from 12.5 scholarships the coach is trying allocate. It doesn’t take away from being a great player to get the offer, but makes it cleaner and more simple. The family also can decide fast because they are not waiting for more information on aid and looking/comparing net cost calculations to see if they can afford the school.

So saying - look Cap wins because the most Ivies fast - or high academic fast - ignores this piece.

So all the Ivy recruits are full pay?

Correct. Full pay or qualify for financial aid (but no merit or athletic).

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

“fortunate financial position” is the key and the entitled attitude that those who may not be in the same position don’t also want to prioritize their futures over the sport alone is ridiculous. Heck, they may also have just as good of grades and SATs and will have a bright future after college at a non-ivy school.

It is not a no-brainer actually even if you can technically afford it - but it will exhaust all your college resources - to think about if another school makes sense and you save the money for medical school or law school or grad school. That IS thinking about the future post lax.

Also love the defensive nature trying to assert that they all had multiple offers … OK. The point is others with multiple offers take longer because there is a financial analysis families are doing weighing total net cost of schools and offers that can provide merit and athletic. Some actually turn down the Ivy League - gasp - even in the past some CLC players. I guess they threw their whole future after lacrosse away according to you because they didn’t “get it”.

Ok but what is your point? For these girls it was an easy decision. Others chose differently. What is your beef exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

“fortunate financial position” is the key and the entitled attitude that those who may not be in the same position don’t also want to prioritize their futures over the sport alone is ridiculous. Heck, they may also have just as good of grades and SATs and will have a bright future after college at a non-ivy school.

It is not a no-brainer actually even if you can technically afford it - but it will exhaust all your college resources - to think about if another school makes sense and you save the money for medical school or law school or grad school. That IS thinking about the future post lax.

Also love the defensive nature trying to assert that they all had multiple offers … OK. The point is others with multiple offers take longer because there is a financial analysis families are doing weighing total net cost of schools and offers that can provide merit and athletic. Some actually turn down the Ivy League - gasp - even in the past some CLC players. I guess they threw their whole future after lacrosse away according to you because they didn’t “get it”.

Also when I said you don’t get it what I mean is that if you get an Ivy offer you obviously got other ones. That is what you don’t seem to get.

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

“fortunate financial position” is the key and the entitled attitude that those who may not be in the same position don’t also want to prioritize their futures over the sport alone is ridiculous. Heck, they may also have just as good of grades and SATs and will have a bright future after college at a non-ivy school.

It is not a no-brainer actually even if you can technically afford it - but it will exhaust all your college resources - to think about if another school makes sense and you save the money for medical school or law school or grad school. That IS thinking about the future post lax.

Also love the defensive nature trying to assert that they all had multiple offers … OK. The point is others with multiple offers take longer because there is a financial analysis families are doing weighing total net cost of schools and offers that can provide merit and athletic. Some actually turn down the Ivy League - gasp - even in the past some CLC players. I guess they threw their whole future after lacrosse away according to you because they didn’t “get it”.

You sound bitter. If my kid got an offer from an ivy, and she wanted to go, and we could afford it, there would be nothing more to discuss. Be happy for these kids and their choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ since it's 100000%, can you explain what you think this means? how is the brand a selling point to college coaches, in your estimation?

1. I can tell you that my daughter numerous times heard from coaches at camps how much they love Capital players.

2. The coaches from Capital no all of the college coaches.

3. The recruiting Director has connections.

Can the same be said for M&D and Heros….Absolutely! other local clubs…I’m not so sure.

1. Of course. Many years they've been able to collect the top players in the area. With one team instead of 2 or 3 competitors. It's not chicken or egg here.

2. Every other top team's coaches "no" college coaches.

3. Every other top team's recruiting director has connections.

Extra: Cap has been able to wipe out every other program's top players in late middle school. Then they're on all the fields coaches go to watch. And the players are good enough. Their "brand" is with middle school parents. And it has worked for them.

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Anonymous wrote:These are great schools and truly happy for all girls, but you cannot ignore that being full pay and not needing any $ is a key factor to going fast. Others who may have multiple offers are in the process of making family decisions about cost as well as fit and prestige.

I know some who really won’t or can’t consider the Ivy League. Yes, great financial aid if you qualify, but many threads across college boards talk about donut families in the middle. These are personal decisions, but with lacrosse or not, families with smart, capable kids pick schools for a variety of reasons including cost and overall family budget to educate their children. Some may “save” that money for law school or graduate school where the name of the school or program usually matters far more.

As someone else said - Speed doesn’t “win” here. For example, YJ Manning may have the strongest 26 crop of girls from a club with arguably the strongest reputation among colleges and only a few have committed so far. It is not for lack of choices I am sure.

DMV does not have exclusive claim to smart, lacrosse girls. That seems naive; and an Ivy commitment isn’t the “prize” for everyone. The Cap parent(s) comments (or whomever it is) on here that keeps saying this and has claimed CLC has won recruiting is silly. This is not to diminish the awesome schools those girls committed to - it is truly great when girls find their fit and commit to a dream school.

26 Capital players committing early to ivies also received multiple offers from other great programs. They chose ivy because they were in a fortunate financial position to be able to prioritize their futures over a sport that ends after graduation.

Exactly! This seems to be so obvious, but apparently not to some people.

“fortunate financial position” is the key and the entitled attitude that those who may not be in the same position don’t also want to prioritize their futures over the sport alone is ridiculous. Heck, they may also have just as good of grades and SATs and will have a bright future after college at a non-ivy school.

It is not a no-brainer actually even if you can technically afford it - but it will exhaust all your college resources - to think about if another school makes sense and you save the money for medical school or law school or grad school. That IS thinking about the future post lax.

Also love the defensive nature trying to assert that they all had multiple offers … OK. The point is others with multiple offers take longer because there is a financial analysis families are doing weighing total net cost of schools and offers that can provide merit and athletic. Some actually turn down the Ivy League - gasp - even in the past some CLC players. I guess they threw their whole future after lacrosse away according to you because they didn’t “get it”.

Also when I said you don’t get it what I mean is that if you get an Ivy offer you obviously got other ones. That is what you don’t seem to get.

Maybe you could keep explaining yourself. That would really help.

[Anonymous]

How many players left to committ on Cap Blue? Never have seen a roster.