2025 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

[Anonymous]

SJC will dominate the area landscape in the years ahead!

Agree with you SJC has the best 2026 class.

The Cadets and Bears both have very strong 2027 classes. Good Counsel has a good 2027 class.

Gonzaga has the best 2028 class, likely followed by Prep.

[Anonymous]

Please elaborate on how Gonzaga has the best 2028
class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please elaborate on how Gonzaga has the best 2028
class.

Faster, smarter, more athletic, and better looking….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please elaborate on how Gonzaga has the best 2028
class.

Faster, smarter, more athletic, and better looking….

It’s a split decision on 2028. Players are fairly spread out in this class and it’s harder to identify the top 5-10 players in this class than in some others.

[Anonymous]

SJC is loaded in the 26-28 classes. Their 25 class isn’t as strong as the younger ones. But they are the best setup for the future (if you ignore potential transfers).

Both Prep and Gonzaga are fairly deep in terms of numbers, but maybe a little light in terms of high impact players in the 26-28 classes with a few notable exceptions, particularly in the 26 class.

Landon has good depth across all three classes, but it’s best younger players are in the very strong 27 class.

GC is thin, but strong. If you cobble together the three classes, you can see a strong starting group.

Bullis is crazy thin, but has some high impact players in the 26-28 classes, although most starters will come from the very strong 25 class next year.

Not a ton of high end talent in the 26-28 classes at STA, but some decent depth.

PVI is fairly good in 26, moderate in 28, and very thin in 27.

SSSAS has very little. Same with DeMatha. Who knows what transfers will happen with Episcopal?

So I’d rank the schools as follows in terms of 26-28 strength.

Tier 1 - loaded
1. SJC

Tier 2 - lots of good lacrosse players
2. Landon
3. Prep
4. Gonzaga

Tier 3 - some really good talent but thin. Would not be surprised if these schools are above tier 2 some years.
5. GC
6. Bullis
7. PVI

Tier 4 - Enough players to win a game here or there against Tier 1-3, but those will be rare.

8. STA

Tier 5 - have some lacrosse players but not enough to compete with the top teams

Episcopal, DeMatha, SSSAS, Heights, Potomac, SAES, St. James.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SJC is loaded in the 26-28 classes. Their 25 class isn’t as strong as the younger ones. But they are the best setup for the future (if you ignore potential transfers).

Both Prep and Gonzaga are fairly deep in terms of numbers, but maybe a little light in terms of high impact players in the 26-28 classes with a few notable exceptions, particularly in the 26 class.

Landon has good depth across all three classes, but it’s best younger players are in the very strong 27 class.

GC is thin, but strong. If you cobble together the three classes, you can see a strong starting group.

Bullis is crazy thin, but has some high impact players in the 26-28 classes, although most starters will come from the very strong 25 class next year.

Not a ton of high end talent in the 26-28 classes at STA, but some decent depth.

PVI is fairly good in 26, moderate in 28, and very thin in 27.

SSSAS has very little. Same with DeMatha. Who knows what transfers will happen with Episcopal?

So I’d rank the schools as follows in terms of 26-28 strength.

Tier 1 - loaded
1. SJC

Tier 2 - lots of good lacrosse players
2. Landon
3. Prep
4. Gonzaga

Tier 3 - some really good talent but thin. Would not be surprised if these schools are above tier 2 some years.
5. GC
6. Bullis
7. PVI

Tier 4 - Enough players to win a game here or there against Tier 1-3, but those will be rare.

8. STA

Tier 5 - have some lacrosse players but not enough to compete with the top teams

Episcopal, DeMatha, SSSAS, Heights, Potomac, SAES, St. James.

great assessment, thank you for doing this!

[Anonymous]

What clubs do these amazing 2027s come from? None of the local clubs did that well this summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What clubs do these amazing 2027s come from? None of the local clubs did that well this summer.

What club and school did you play for and what is/was your contribution to a college team thereafter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What clubs do these amazing 2027s come from? None of the local clubs did that well this summer.

What club and school did you play for and what is/was your contribution to a college team thereafter?

Just trying to see what club these strong 27s play for. Doesn’t seem like you have an answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What clubs do these amazing 2027s come from? None of the local clubs did that well this summer.

What club and school did you play for and what is/was your contribution to a college team thereafter?

Just trying to see what club these strong 27s play for. Doesn’t seem like you have an answer.

Actually, I do have an answer. Guess you'll have to wait to find out. If you ever do at all.

[Anonymous]

Weird double aggressive response. Why not just answer where the strong 27s play?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SJC is loaded in the 26-28 classes. Their 25 class isn’t as strong as the younger ones. But they are the best setup for the future (if you ignore potential transfers).

Both Prep and Gonzaga are fairly deep in terms of numbers, but maybe a little light in terms of high impact players in the 26-28 classes with a few notable exceptions, particularly in the 26 class.

Landon has good depth across all three classes, but it’s best younger players are in the very strong 27 class.

GC is thin, but strong. If you cobble together the three classes, you can see a strong starting group.

Bullis is crazy thin, but has some high impact players in the 26-28 classes, although most starters will come from the very strong 25 class next year.

Not a ton of high end talent in the 26-28 classes at STA, but some decent depth.

PVI is fairly good in 26, moderate in 28, and very thin in 27.

SSSAS has very little. Same with DeMatha. Who knows what transfers will happen with Episcopal?

So I’d rank the schools as follows in terms of 26-28 strength.

Tier 1 - loaded
1. SJC

Tier 2 - lots of good lacrosse players
2. Landon
3. Prep
4. Gonzaga

Tier 3 - some really good talent but thin. Would not be surprised if these schools are above tier 2 some years.
5. GC
6. Bullis
7. PVI

Tier 4 - Enough players to win a game here or there against Tier 1-3, but those will be rare.

8. STA

Tier 5 - have some lacrosse players but not enough to compete with the top teams

Episcopal, DeMatha, SSSAS, Heights, Potomac, SAES, St. James.

While Bullis should be loaded in 2025 (due to Mahar and a stacked senior class), the Bulldogs 26 and 27 classes are razor thin.

The new headmaster at Bullis is not nearly as sports-crazed as the former headmaster (Boarman?), look for Bullis lax team to likely drop after the 2025 class graduates.

In my eyes, Prep is littered with younger talent in the 26 and 28 classes but the coaching is very very suspect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D3 doesn't recruit. You apply and pay a lot of money and your child gets a leg up because they play a sport. Hope your child has the grades first, the money 2nd and the skill last.

D3 absolutely recruits. It isnt as robust or formal as D1 but D3 teams recruit. Go look at tournament lists of colleges attending. They aren't doing that just for the "process."

Bad takes. Top D3 lax schools absolutely recruit elite lax players. Anyone saying otherwise is clueless. And any rising HS senior who has “committed to the process” at a top academic D3 program has already been vetted positively by admissions and absent a major screw up is going to be admitted as long as they apply ED. The top ranked (academic) lax programs routinely get elite players who choose D3 over weak academic D1 schools. Who wouldn’t choose Tufts (who’s men’s and women’s lax teams both smoked Dartmouth a few years ago) over fill in the blank D1 lax program that offers little to no $$, and a mostly useless alumni network.

[Anonymous]

I’ll take a crack—any kid who wants to have the support of a D1 athletic program and all the comes with it. Saturday afternoon football games, frat parties, large number of coeds, larger alumni networks, and an experience that is perhaps closer to what the real world will be like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SJC is loaded in the 26-28 classes. Their 25 class isn’t as strong as the younger ones. But they are the best setup for the future (if you ignore potential transfers).

Both Prep and Gonzaga are fairly deep in terms of numbers, but maybe a little light in terms of high impact players in the 26-28 classes with a few notable exceptions, particularly in the 26 class.

Landon has good depth across all three classes, but it’s best younger players are in the very strong 27 class.

GC is thin, but strong. If you cobble together the three classes, you can see a strong starting group.

Bullis is crazy thin, but has some high impact players in the 26-28 classes, although most starters will come from the very strong 25 class next year.

Not a ton of high end talent in the 26-28 classes at STA, but some decent depth.

PVI is fairly good in 26, moderate in 28, and very thin in 27.

SSSAS has very little. Same with DeMatha. Who knows what transfers will happen with Episcopal?

So I’d rank the schools as follows in terms of 26-28 strength.

Tier 1 - loaded
1. SJC

Tier 2 - lots of good lacrosse players
2. Landon
3. Prep
4. Gonzaga

Tier 3 - some really good talent but thin. Would not be surprised if these schools are above tier 2 some years.
5. GC
6. Bullis
7. PVI

Tier 4 - Enough players to win a game here or there against Tier 1-3, but those will be rare.

8. STA

Tier 5 - have some lacrosse players but not enough to compete with the top teams

Episcopal, DeMatha, SSSAS, Heights, Potomac, SAES, St. James.

While Bullis should be loaded in 2025 (due to Mahar and a stacked senior class), the Bulldogs 26 and 27 classes are razor thin.

The new headmaster at Bullis is not nearly as sports-crazed as the former headmaster (Boarman?), look for Bullis lax team to likely drop after the 2025 class graduates.

In my eyes, Prep is littered with younger talent in the 26 and 28 classes but the coaching is very very suspect.

Why does everyone think the 2025 class at Bullis is "stacked?" Besides the #3 ranked player committed to Penn that class has nothing else on the field with the exception maybe a pole and a middie. Hopefully Bullis gets on the recruiting or Bullis will be dropping big time and the crazy thin 2026 players will just be playing for fun and the rest looking at Bullis will stay away. I don't see families paying the highest tuition in the area for "fun lax."