2028 Girls Lacrosse

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Anonymous wrote:Capital Blue breakdown is Pride-11 Stars-6 Next Level-3 True-1 where’s the last girl from?

12 overall from Pride. Think it's 2 from NL. MDU is the other club in addition to Stars and True.

So much for that BLC partnership.

28's are an off year for BLC. 29's through 32 are very strong. They will have significant contributions to future Capital teams.

Are there a lot of NOVA girls in the younger BLC teams?

Yes, some years more than others.

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Anonymous wrote:New Cap Blue Parents: where do we see the ‘28s being ranked by next Summer?

Mid 20s, maybe around 20.

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Most of the posts here are by trolls and completely idiotic. Hope this gets us to 300

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the posts here are by trolls and completely idiotic. Hope this gets us to 300

Late to the game. Now youre just chatter.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

This makes no sense. If this was the case, STARs and other clubs should be getting better each year and beat Pride. That isn’t happening.

Check your reading comprehension. If everyone trains the same but many kids are better at the start, which team will be better in 8th grade?

You said Pride doesn’t develop. So this would mean their kids shouldn’t be getting any better and the other teams that are developing should be winning. This isn’t the case. You can’t have it both ways.

None of them develop. Yes, they hold practices and clinics but the coaching is often horrible. Maryland develops talent.

I guess you get ranked 7th in the country by being average.

LOL, I don't believe any of this 'they don't develop their players' talk. They're very transparent on their website with what their program entails to develop skills.

Also wish the bashing of whole groups of players who are upper ES and lower MS age would cease. You don't like Pride? Cool, fine. Go do your thing. Don't trash other people's children and their teammates.

Where are people putting down kids?

Best rec programs are in certain areas. Those areas tend to give more kids to Pride. I think the point is the best athletes go to Pride early and in general, that holds true at Capital tryouts. The few white and navy kids that make Cap prove the system that picks “winners” in 3rd and 4th grade is probably only 80-90% efficient.

Sorry, you were not putting down kids. I meant that comment for othets who were saying that Pride 30 teams and lower lacked talent. It just seemed unnecessary harsh to say about a group of young girls. But again, wasn't directed your way at all.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

Agreed. The kids from wealthier families and communities are much more likely to play lacrosse and start an an early age. Often their parents played, so they get "coaching"/encouragement at home + have more resources to devote to camps and other development that occurs outside club play. Pride is most convenient for the wealthiest NoVA suburbs and is also more convenient for any MoCo kids who cross state lines. There are obviously wealthy pockets in the southern burbs too, but not like the northwest.

Pride and Stars aren't that different on development (e.g. Stars also has 2x weekly speed and agility training, separate from what occurs during practices). Coaching with both can be hit or miss. Both need to up their development game to compete with big-name Maryland teams.

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Anonymous wrote:what is the make up of the Orange team

Curious about this too. Anyone know?

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

I wonder what Pride recruiting would look like if they were able to hold together their top 10 team (7 ranked 2028) to draw the coach crowds at tournaments. Give Capital credit, their recruiting system is a machine, and Pride is newer to the game and don't have the connections yet in this area. But like they say, its not the recruiting system, it is the athlete.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

Agreed. The kids from wealthier families and communities are much more likely to play lacrosse and start an an early age. Often their parents played, so they get "coaching"/encouragement at home + have more resources to devote to camps and other development that occurs outside club play. Pride is most convenient for the wealthiest NoVA suburbs and is also more convenient for any MoCo kids who cross state lines. There are obviously wealthy pockets in the southern burbs too, but not like the northwest.

Pride and Stars aren't that different on development (e.g. Stars also has 2x weekly speed and agility training, separate from what occurs during practices). Coaching with both can be hit or miss. Both need to up their development game to compete with big-name Maryland teams.

I can only speak to Pride, but that team significantly closed the gap on the big-name Maryland teams over the years. The only top MD club on a parallel path was Hero's, with every other MD club getting relatively worse over time. I think Pride 2028's development was fine, if not great.

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What's Pride doing to develop its goalies these days?

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

This is not a widely shared view. Very good players selected for Cap Blue all around..

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

Agreed. The kids from wealthier families and communities are much more likely to play lacrosse and start an an early age. Often their parents played, so they get "coaching"/encouragement at home + have more resources to devote to camps and other development that occurs outside club play. Pride is most convenient for the wealthiest NoVA suburbs and is also more convenient for any MoCo kids who cross state lines. There are obviously wealthy pockets in the southern burbs too, but not like the northwest.

Pride and Stars aren't that different on development (e.g. Stars also has 2x weekly speed and agility training, separate from what occurs during practices). Coaching with both can be hit or miss. Both need to up their development game to compete with big-name Maryland teams.

I can only speak to Pride, but that team significantly closed the gap on the big-name Maryland teams over the years. The only top MD club on a parallel path was Hero's, with every other MD club getting relatively worse over time. I think Pride 2028's development was fine, if not great.

Except for the fact that they avoided playing the top teams all summer so you never got a true barometer.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

This is not a widely shared view. Very good players selected for Cap Blue all around..

Sounds like a Stars or NL parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

Agreed. The kids from wealthier families and communities are much more likely to play lacrosse and start an an early age. Often their parents played, so they get "coaching"/encouragement at home + have more resources to devote to camps and other development that occurs outside club play. Pride is most convenient for the wealthiest NoVA suburbs and is also more convenient for any MoCo kids who cross state lines. There are obviously wealthy pockets in the southern burbs too, but not like the northwest.

Pride and Stars aren't that different on development (e.g. Stars also has 2x weekly speed and agility training, separate from what occurs during practices). Coaching with both can be hit or miss. Both need to up their development game to compete with big-name Maryland teams.

I can only speak to Pride, but that team significantly closed the gap on the big-name Maryland teams over the years. The only top MD club on a parallel path was Hero's, with every other MD club getting relatively worse over time. I think Pride 2028's development was fine, if not great.

Except for the fact that they avoided playing the top teams all summer so you never got a true barometer.

Well they did beat #3 Eagle Stix in their last tournament, and ended up beating #10 Aces in the championship game the same day. They would have welcomed the opportunity to play any of the other "top" teams, but sadly those teams did not do as well as Pride that tournament.