24 Girls Recruiting
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Anonymous
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Another Cap 24 Blue Commitment
St. Joesphs University |
Anonymous
| Cap Blue 24’ only has a few left to commit. The entire rest of the roster has committed to D1 schools. The majority of them are Ivy, ACC or top 25. The Cap recruiting director is the real deal. |
Anonymous
And before anyone starts pointing out that this one isn’ta top 25 team, they did say the MAJORITY. Just pointing that out before people start their rants |
Anonymous
| There is another possible explanation, one that I subscribe to and I'm sure many current and former Capital parents do as well. Capital is the best club in the DC area, many years their orange team is the second best team in the DMV. They tend to get highly motivated lacrosse players, a majority of whom are also highly motivated in the classroom. The club gets their teams in the best tournaments in the country so they have plenty of opportunities to get showcase themselves. They learn from girls above them what works (what showcases, should I do camps and when etc.). Great players +Great grades + A great recruiting playbook equals year after year success. Sure the RD fields phone calls and passes them on, but there is no magic or great RD behind this. |
Anonymous
So what changed from two years ago and before when the Capital girls weren't going this quickly and the majority were not going to top 25 schools? |
Anonymous
The outcomes are absolutely connected to the recruiting director. The clubs reputation and it’s executive director’s connections to colleges also influence the outcome. There is no better year to compare this theory than the class of 2023. Pride Black and Capital Blue were both extremely talented teams. Pride was actually ranked higher going into the start of the critical recruiting cycle. So talent was on par between the teams. What was different was the commitment to recruiting by each club. Pride’s recruiting director left to be the head coach at American at the most critical time for that 2023 team. The new recruiting director had little interest in helping the players and was eventually let go. Pride had no history with high school teams and the executive director didn’t have a strong connection to college coaches. The end result was players had to navigate a process on their own that they were not familiar with. They had no direction or past experiences of club players to fall back on. Thankfully some of these players fought through this to land at solid programs, but it was not easy as really talented players went late into the recruiting season. Contrast this with the same Capital class. Capital parents mentioned how well coordinated the recruiting efforts were with the club. The end result for Capital was an impressive list of very early commits. The clubs reputation along with it’s executive director and recruiting directors help in executing personalized plans for each player made a big difference in this class. So here you have two equally talented teams with great players but far different recruiting experiences. Hats off to Capital for their success. Hopefully Pride makes a bigger commitment to this in the future. |
Anonymous
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Those schools are amazing! But please don't call Capital blue the second-best lacrosse club in the DMV.
They're not. Tiger moms and dads can get you places! |
Anonymous
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Update on the most current information on how recruits are committing right now. I know these are not perfect numbers, but they are fairly accurate. There are some surprises with how many commits teams have in comparison to the team's talent. However, for the most part, if you look at their rankings in comparison to the number of commits, they are very close in comparison. And before you say these numbers are wrong, I am sure you are right, but this is the most updated information out there for comparision.
"Total Commits" Club 33 LI Elite 23 M&D 21 CT Grizzlies 18 Capital 15 Heros 15 STEPS 13 MA Elite 13 Monster 13 SkyWalkers 12 Big 4 HHH 11 LI Legacy 11 Salt City Snipers 11 STEPS CA 10 LI Liberty 10 NEMS 10 PrimeTime 8 LaxManiax 8 LI TopGuns 8 Phantastix 8 UltGoal 7 AA Aim 7 Lax Monkey 6 M&D Orlando 6 NH Tomahawks 6 Team 180 5 214 5 Cavalier 5 EagleStix 5 Integrity 5 Jersey Shore 5 Lakeshore 5 Laxachusetts 5 LI Jesters 5 Team 91 5 YJ South/Strikers 4 ATL Storm 4 DEWLax 4 FL Select 4 GRIT 4 Mad Dog West 4 NXT 4 Predators 4 PRIDE 4 SJ Select 4 Team One 4 TLC 3 3D 3 All Lax 3 BBL 3 C2 3 Charlotte Style 3 Nor'easter 3 Philly Blast 3 Tenacity 3 Triumph 3 UltGoal NC 3 Xtreme 2 Albany Power 2 Check-Hers 2 Granite State 2 Impact 2 LA Fire 2 Lake Effect Storm 2 Mad Dog 2 MXB 2 No Excuse 2 Southern Zone 2 Storm (FL) 2 TNLax 1 5280 1 3D 1 Belles 1 CCLax 1 Central 1 Coast 1 Desert Heat 1 Dynasty 1 Eastern Shore 1 Edge/LBK/Team ON 1 Empress 1 FLG 1 Lax On 1 Legacy 1 LI Team 91/Elite 1 Limitless/FL Select 1 Major Force 1 MC Elite 1 Metro 1 Mid-Penn Blaze 1 OR Pride 1 PA Express 1 Pgh Premier 1 Puget Sound/NXT 1 Renegades 1 Snipers Elite 1 Soundcross 1 Team BC 1 UPROAR 1 YJ Mid-Atl 1 York Invaders 1 TRUE PA 1 TRUE National |
Anonymous
I do not think anyone is saying Capital Blue is the second-best team in the DMV. They are the BEST team in the DMV. Pride is the second best, and the Orange team is the third |
Anonymous
The OP makes no reference to any team being better than another. The reference I read was to a ranking at a particular time leading up to the start of when teams would get more serious about recruiting. The poster clearly notes both teams had talented players and complimented Capital on its recruiting success. You seem to be so fearful of any other club getting recognition you completely overlooked the point of the post, the impact clubs and their recruiting directors can have on recruiting success. The sad part in all of this is the DMV had two great teams in the country going into the start of the recruiting process for 2023s, which would suggest strong lacrosse talent on both teams, yet one club had tremendous success with recruiting, the other not. If the talent were comparable then this seems to demonstrate the impact a club's reputation, it's executive director, it's recruiting director, and coaches can have on recruiting success. |
Anonymous
Remember the value of a recruiting directors is offers outside the top 25. Girls with top 25 talent recruit themselves. Let's see how many Cap Orange girls get D1 offers before any judgements are made. |
Anonymous
Make it 22 D1 commits for Capital 2024s |
Anonymous
Well, considering the Capital Orange team has 3 compared to Prides 4 so far, I would say pretty good so far |
Anonymous
That's great. My point is that is the real value of a recruiting director. the UA150 / All American games girls don't really need that much help, its the next level where recruiting directors make a difference. |
Anonymous
| That many Di recruits already is impressive. What the heck happened with all the complaining about the 22 class when the 23s and 24s have done so well? Did the recruiting director change? |