2028 Girls Lacrosse

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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.

Wrong.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

[Anonymous]

This is exactly what BLC 27 thought last year as well…. Capital Blue 27 is just fine and 28 will be as well.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what BLC 27 thought last year as well…. Capital Blue 27 is just fine and 28 will be as well.

Yeah, those players went from the #7 team in the nation to #15. Lets see if they can close the gap over the next two years with the "just fine" Capital Blue.

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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.

Sadly Pride didn’t play those teams at Genesis. If they did they wouldn’t have been in the playoffs. Everyone will see in fall, when the newly minted Capital team gets rolled over by all the top clubs.

[Anonymous]

What's a "Top" team anymore? Top 5?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

[Anonymous]

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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 an entirely inappropriate topic, even for the low standards of this forum. These are actual teenage girls and their families - some happy and some still trying to sort out their options Let them be.

Agreed. Teenage girls have enough self esteem challenges to contend with, particularly with social media, without a bunch of grow adults posting unhelpful garbage online for their own amusements.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

What! This could be the worst, least convincing argument I have ever seen in here.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Say more of this "Cap'n Cookie" truck. It sounds like a genius idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what BLC 27 thought last year as well…. Capital Blue 27 is just fine and 28 will be as well.

Yeah, those players went from the #7 team in the nation to #15. Lets see if they can close the gap over the next two years with the "just fine" Capital Blue.

Doesn’t matter. History shows past Cap Blue teams at #15 and recruiting blew the hinges off.

[Anonymous]

I think Capital Blue will be top 10 for certain. Solid team all around. Still don’t see any SSSAS girls on that team so not sure if Kathy influences these decisions anymore or if the talent is just too deep across NOVA now. I heard a few made Orange and that’s it.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Say more of this "Cap'n Cookie" truck. It sounds like a genius idea.

Thier hot cookie ice cream sandwiches are fire.🔥 Especially when you’re 10.