Girls Tryouts

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Anonymous wrote:Many many clubs don’t post rosters. Quit stalking.

It so clear that the posters criticizing B teams are clueless. There are many competitive B teams and girls whole love it and are thriving. Without B teams, many girls would not play. Rec is a joke around here.

Exactly. I would much prefer my daughter start on her existing B team (for now) than stand on the sidelines of the A team for most of the season.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So now that Fall has started, how did everything shake out? How many teams do each of the clubs have at each level? From what I hear NL is still one team only at each level except for 2027. Did BLC get two teams at each level? MCE seems to have a few years with only one team but rosters are still not posted at each age group. I am curious because as much as I understand that clubs want that B team money, I think it serves everyone (player and club reputation) to have one team at each level and commit resources to that team.

Any word yet on what fall and summer tourneys NL is playing in? Doesn't look like they are playing in any of the larger ones.

In the fall, they are playing in most of the top of the bay tourneys. not sure if there is an affiliation there

- Lax Clash
- Laxing Out Loud
- Fall Premier Showcase


so in other words, no they have not upgraded their schedule

[Anonymous]

Top of the Bay are some of the easiest tournaments to get into. No real waiting list

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top of the Bay are some of the easiest tournaments to get into. No real waiting list

Its a shame because they probably do a better job than almost anyone is running good tournaments. Too bad live love lax is their only tourney with a good field.

[Anonymous]

Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

[Anonymous]

It’s interesting because they seem to run a very good program and every year more and more players are ditching BLC and MCE for NL. I guess the wonder is that now that they have all of this talent will they step up the intensity or direction of the program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

[Anonymous]

I guess the question becomes is this deliberate or do they not think they have the talent? Or are they going to continue to do well at the B level and then take it to A level tournaments etc? Has the head of girls been open about the direction?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

Just go to the Next Level website, boys full roster with numbers names positions, girls, still has tryout info from June.

I can't think of one program that has both boys and girls teams where the girls team is competitive.

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Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

Just go to the Next Level website, boys full roster with numbers names positions, girls, still has tryout info from June.

I can't think of one program that has both boys and girls teams where the girls team is competitive.

Isn't the issue that it takes time to develop a program? MadLax, for example, has a relatively recent girls program. They have recruiting pages, etc. But, not a lot of track record yet. I'd take a new program alongside a developed boys' program over a new stand-alone program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

Just go to the Next Level website, boys full roster with numbers names positions, girls, still has tryout info from June.

I can't think of one program that has both boys and girls teams where the girls team is competitive.

Isn't the issue that it takes time to develop a program? MadLax, for example, has a relatively recent girls program. They have recruiting pages, etc. But, not a lot of track record yet. I'd take a new program alongside a developed boys' program over a new stand-alone program.

To be a great program, you have to take the kids that would normally go to top tier established clubs, and that is just really hard to breakthrough.

Even solid clubs lose their top players to the top clubs every offseason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Four Pride 25 players went to MCE A team.

I hear only five Pride Red ‘25 players stayed for the Pride ‘25 highschool A team. And they moved coaches around so owner is no longer their coach. No new rosters up - wonder if they have a full team. You’d think some of the Stars players who didn’t make Capital might try to go to Pride.

Pride has 3 25 teams. Their top team will be nowhere near what it was last year as they did lose about 40-50% of their players to CLC and one going to MCE. The other girls who went to MCE were from their 2nd tier teams. I wouldn't expect to see the new rosters up anytime soon. The website is always outdated.

Pride 2025 A team lost all but 5 of their players in total to other programs. No way will they be competitive anymore. Capital 2025 B team will be better than Prude A team. MCE 2025 A team will be better than Pride 2025 A team. This could well be the end of the Pride highschool program.

Have any of the Pride 2023s committed? That is going to be the ultimate deciding factor on if Pride is viable as a highschool club program.

Most of what is written in this string is wrong. You have no idea what you're talking about. Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

Just go to the Next Level website, boys full roster with numbers names positions, girls, still has tryout info from June.

I can't think of one program that has both boys and girls teams where the girls team is competitive.

Isn't the issue that it takes time to develop a program? MadLax, for example, has a relatively recent girls program. They have recruiting pages, etc. But, not a lot of track record yet. I'd take a new program alongside a developed boys' program over a new stand-alone program.

To be a great program, you have to take the kids that would normally go to top tier established clubs, and that is just really hard to breakthrough.

Even solid clubs lose their top players to the top clubs every offseason.

And when your older ages are not in big tournaments, it is hard to convince parents that it will happen later on for their daughters when they get to high school.

From what I understand, NL parents want to compete on the big stage but it is just not happening. ML girls don't have a single team that is not mix aged and they also don't attend many good tournaments. I'd take NL over ML. But it will be very interesting to see what happens with NL in the summer - will they get into big tournaments? Higher ups need to be proactive and get into tournaments.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does NL even really tout themselves as a club in which their players go on to play college lacrosse? If they don't, then why are people knocking on them?

They serve the market of girls who still want to play club lacrosse but have no dreams/aspirations of playing college lacrosse. They don't need to play in the premier tournaments.

As long as that is understood by everyone, let them be.

I think what bothers alot of folks is the massive chasm between the boys and girls teams. The boys club plays in the best tourneys in the country and routinely sends kids to the best colleges in the country.

As for the girls, they don't really have HS team for recruitable players yet, but they clearly have much lower aspirations. I can name multiple top boys players at NL who have sisters who play at top area girls clubs.

Just go to the Next Level website, boys full roster with numbers names positions, girls, still has tryout info from June.

I can't think of one program that has both boys and girls teams where the girls team is competitive.

Isn't the issue that it takes time to develop a program? MadLax, for example, has a relatively recent girls program. They have recruiting pages, etc. But, not a lot of track record yet. I'd take a new program alongside a developed boys' program over a new stand-alone program.

To be a great program, you have to take the kids that would normally go to top tier established clubs, and that is just really hard to breakthrough.

Even solid clubs lose their top players to the top clubs every offseason.

And when your older ages are not in big tournaments, it is hard to convince parents that it will happen later on for their daughters when they get to high school.

From what I understand, NL parents want to compete on the big stage but it is just not happening. ML girls don't have a single team that is not mix aged and they also don't attend many good tournaments. I'd take NL over ML. But it will be very interesting to see what happens with NL in the summer - will they get into big tournaments? Higher ups need to be proactive and get into tournaments.

Yup. Reality is that that playing in top tourneys attract/keep top players. Also, some of these tournaments sell out at this point, it will be difficult to enter in the future.

Next Level 27s will probably never get into Lax for the Cure and the 28s will never unless they get in this year. Similar with Live Love Lax.

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It's actually much easier to enter when they are younger - there tend to be fewer teams (29s,20s,31s right now). Which makes this all the more baffling.

And you are much more likely to come off of a waitlist if you have been there before. That is, if you don't make the first line up anyway.