24 Girls Recruiting

[Anonymous]

“Miserable” - is that just because of the grind of playing in college or because picking wrong fit (at least wrong lax fit)?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the Cap players get their “amazing” D1 spots because Capital is a known commodity with a lot of connections, and they get to these big name schools and are miserable and never play. With a few exceptions of course - except for the miserable part. Congrats!!!

This can't be emphasized enough. Lots of avg to above avg players in the DC area go through Stars then Capital and get to a big lacrosse school. They quickly find out what it's like to really compete.

… and many more have great experiences, play a lot, and go on to kill it in the professional world.

[Anonymous]

It is funny to watch self-proclaimed experts make generalizations about the experience of multiple girls from the area and their happiness at D1 schools. Sounds more likely that their DDs didn’t get recruited and now trying to make themselves feel better.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of good early pre-reads on Capital 24 Blue is what I am hearing. Will be a busy September for Cap Blue.

What did you hear?

I’m sure both goalies will go high D1

One will

NESCAC coaches were high on them this summer. Don’t rule out high academic D3.

Not ruling anything out. Simply saying one of the goalies will have her pick of schools.

Goalie is always tricky cause not every school takes one every year. Depends on coach philosophy. Some that have take goalies from 22 and 23 classes may not take a ‘24. (Also has to do with investing the scholly money in those years for goalie). Both should land somewhere, but it depends on who’s in the market.

Interesting that everyone is so careful not to call out individual field players in these threads but feel fully comfortable speaking very specifically about goalies.

I don't think anyone called out a specific goalie. No details about a player were given. No different than saying 1 midfielder from Cap will have their choice ,or 1 Attacker. It think you are a little over sensitive here.

[Anonymous]

If it helps, 24 Cap Blue will also have a midfielder that will have a pick of options too.

Actually, expect most of the Cap 24 Blue players to have multiple offers and options by the time things play out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of the Cap players get their “amazing” D1 spots because Capital is a known commodity with a lot of connections, and they get to these big name schools and are miserable and never play. With a few exceptions of course - except for the miserable part. Congrats!!!

This can't be emphasized enough. Lots of avg to above avg players in the DC area go through Stars then Capital and get to a big lacrosse school. They quickly find out what it's like to really compete.

… and many more have great experiences, play a lot, and go on to kill it in the professional world.

not PP but serious question. From this summer's AU teams, who all played at Capital for their HS years? Honest question that I think a lot would like to see/know.

[Anonymous]

Can't wait to see where the Capital 24s land. There's gonna be a lot of head scratching going on at the MD clubs, just like last year. Many on DCUM have already predicted the makeup of the Cap Blue 27 team. But a prediction is that future Capital tryouts will see more and more MD girls trying out for the club based on where Cap players are getting recruited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't wait to see where the Capital 24s land. There's gonna be a lot of head scratching going on at the MD clubs, just like last year. Many on DCUM have already predicted the makeup of the Cap Blue 27 team. But a prediction is that future Capital tryouts will see more and more MD girls trying out for the club based on where Cap players are getting recruited.

Thanks for the stand up comedy show today, just what this Monday needed! This is a better joke than anything Eddie Murphy had!

[Anonymous]

To deny the truth doesn’t make the truth go away …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't wait to see where the Capital 24s land. There's gonna be a lot of head scratching going on at the MD clubs, just like last year. Many on DCUM have already predicted the makeup of the Cap Blue 27 team. But a prediction is that future Capital tryouts will see more and more MD girls trying out for the club based on where Cap players are getting recruited.

Are you thinking girls will leave Hero's and M&D to play for CLC? That would be something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can't wait to see where the Capital 24s land. There's gonna be a lot of head scratching going on at the MD clubs, just like last year. Many on DCUM have already predicted the makeup of the Cap Blue 27 team. But a prediction is that future Capital tryouts will see more and more MD girls trying out for the club based on where Cap players are getting recruited.

Are you thinking girls will leave Hero's and M&D to play for CLC? That would be something.

Think about it ... Cap Blue 24s and 25s are top 10 teams (pretty typical for Cap Blue during fresh and soph years). They consistently play other top ten teams and are in all the big tournaments. The same college coaches go to all top ten games. The big difference between Capital and the Md teams is that Capital gives equal playing time. There are talented players on Hero's, Sky and M&D who don't start and don't receive the same exposure as the starters do (for the 23s some MD club bench players committed to the same schools as Cap Orange players did). Md club recruiting favors the starters which is why you see those players going to the better / higher ranked schools. So it's not a stretch at all to think MD club players who aren't seeing the field very much would want to try out for Capital. They would get way more time / tournament exposure and, based on Cap Blue's recruiting history, would quickly increase their odds of going to a higher academic (if they have the grades) or higher lax program by making the switch.

[Anonymous]

I really hope someone from the CAP management didn’t write this. They already show relatively little loyalty to girls and families who have been in and supported the program. It would be even worse if they start to replace local girls with players from Baltimore who already have plenty of options.

[Anonymous]

I am the PP and I do not work for Capital. Just an observation that may prove true if Capital continues to have strong recruiting classes. Strong players will gravitate to clubs that give them the best chance of committing to their list of target schools. Agree that any trend of Balto players coming to Cap would be a significant shift for the club but you can’t ignore this possibility.

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Anonymous wrote:I really hope someone from the CAP management didn’t write this. They already show relatively little loyalty to girls and families who have been in and supported the program. It would be even worse if they start to replace local girls with players from Baltimore who already have plenty of options.

This is one persons viewpoint. By their own admission they claim the 2024 and 2025 teams are top 10 teams that play top 10 schedules. Hasn’t this been the case historically for Capital? So really nothing new here. The stronger MD clubs are already placing players on top 20 teams, so no advantage there. If these players were to join CLC they more than likely bump a local CLC player from a recruiting spot. This won’t sit well with the traditional local CLC parents and players. The poster seems to be focusing on the MD benchwarmers who are not getting enough playing time and suggesting they may come down. Either these players will be good enough to bump out the top local CLC talent for top 20 spots and these locals commit to different caliber colleges, which again will upset the traditional CLC base or the MD players coming to CLC don’t beat out the local CLC players for top recruiting spots, meaning they gain nothing more by coming to CLC. If this were to happen CLC could be making a big business mistake and potentially push its local player base to look elsewhere. Just a possibility, not a guarantee. This poster’s position also assumes the MD benchwarmers want to attend a handful of Ivy League schools with mediocre lacrosse programs. Or they want to play for mid-level lacrosse programs. Outside of the top 5-7 in CLCs last recruiting class players committed to middle of the pack programs. This is not going to convince a MD family to make a move to CLC. The recruiting history has been there for CLC and this didn’t result in a mass influx of MD players. Additionally, if this were to happen the current CLC players may lose out or the MD players may lose out. More than likely one side has to give. This won’t work for parents and brings business risk to CLC. And even if the MD families accepted these risks and don’t make a top 20 team they likely would be headed to a mid-tier D1 program, which they can do by riding the bench on a MD team. Little to nothing to gain from this PPs position for MD families.

[Anonymous]

+1 for PP. Really no advantage to MD families and probably adds more risk to Cap players, especially the bottom half of the Cap players.

Pride talent already makes up a good number of Cap teams every year. If Cap takes in MD players Pride players may choose to stay with Pride. The last thing Cap needs is Pride retaining the talent they have developed and figuring out the recruiting process.