2023 Girls Recruiting
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Anonymous
| Are there any commits on the Capital B team? |
Anonymous
Yes. A handful. This may have been one of the years where Capital got its team assignment right. Funny since they finally stop doing the extra weeks to determine team assignment. |
Anonymous
| B team commits at this point says a lot about the 2023 talent. |
Anonymous
| Truth is that Capital is and has always been the top club in dmv. Was only fiasco of the 2022 class that made anyone doubt it. That class was a disaster from day 1 and never fully recovered even with total overturn of coaching staff and some new players. Those poor 22s. But pretty dumb how one really bad year made so many folks decide Capital was going down the tubes. Hopefully Pride parents know better now. |
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Anonymous
| The Pride parents and club as a whole have spent the last several years deriding Capital. In the end, Pride wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. |
Anonymous
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If you live in moco (I live in upper moco) or north, my suggestion is head to Baltimore for your HS club experience.
Between Hero's, M&D and Skywalkers, you have three excellent options that are run professional and w/o all the politics of down in DMV. Up there, you either can play or you can't. It is not for every girl (especially late bloomers) or parent, but if your daughter is competitive and has shown the ability to excel, I would highly recommend it. Our daughter thrived (mentally, physically, emotionally) once she got in a different environment. Before HS, any of the DMV clubs will work while you still have a Spring Club season. I am only talking about HS years. Just one person's opinion. |
Anonymous
Glad it worked for your kid but truth is there are just as many politics at those clubs - maybe you got lucky and escaped them but it’s 100% just as much a shark tank. Also, with the exception of maybe Skywalkers, Capital has done far better this year in recruiting than those clubs. |
Anonymous
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Someone keeps saying CLC did far better than all MD clubs for 23. Maybe not working off the same list, but those clubs have done just as well (and with a few more to traditional lax powerhouse schools - so maybe “better” depending on criteria). They may just not promote it as much, especially based on verbals but if you look at those teams (not club) IG accounts it looks really good.
Ok, we get it CLC is now proclaimed superior to Pride; I think a bridge too far to say as good as or better than these traditional MD clubs. But agree with PP the club personalities are very different - maybe driven by different mindset in DMV than some of the traditional MD clubs. |
Anonymous
Agree with this, but my recommendation is get in as soon as you can. If you wait until HS, it's very hard to break into MnD/SW/Heros top team. Not to mention past 9th grade, they most likely won't have a tryout again. |
Anonymous
Fair point. We switched in summer before 9th grade. I agree on the broader point that the those three clubs are so established nationally, it was a huge plus. The other thing that was missing when my daughter came through the DMV was expectations. The expectations she met head on around fitness, skill, commitment, discipline was just different than the girls she was with growing up. Having said that, Gussie didn't own Capitals at the time. |
Anonymous
| My daughter played for one of the top MD programs as well and one thing I would say that takes away from politics is that there was ZERO double dipping by the coaches. NEVER would the coach or the program director expect, ask, offer, etc... additional training to any players for extra money. It just was not done. Taking additional money from a parent by the coach who controls playing time and/or the director and coach who influence recruiting sets up potential expectations that can be very damaging. |
Anonymous
Maybe not but there are TONS OF PARENTS COACHES at those MD clubs and that’s way more of a problem than offering optional training. Plus it’s not coaches offering training it’s the overall program director. Regardless, Capital has an equal playing time rule in most cases so your argument just doesn’t hold up. Plus Gussie is not in charge of recruiting at all. She on the periphery. You are throwing shit and hoping it will stick to a wall that just isn’t there. Give it up. |
Anonymous
It’s all there in color on Instagram as you say and inarguable that Capital did better than both M&D and Heros this year. M&D actually had had a very poor showing this year. Very poor. And Heros wasn’t great either. |
Anonymous
| Ummm there are definitely coaches at Capital who encourage players to pay them for extra training and then have a hand in team selection. Fact. |