2028 Girls Lacrosse

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If you play for Stars and/or go to SSSAS, you will be on one of the two Capital teams.

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Plenty of Stars girls didn’t make either team. This is false

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Anonymous wrote:Plenty of Stars girls didn’t make either team. This is false

I get the spirit of the original comment but should have read girls that play for Stars AND go to SSSAS are shoo-in’s. Facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Orange goalies are from Stars and NL. Cap Blue one goalie is from Stars. I think second goalie is from Pride Red

I don’t think one of the orange goalies is NL, but I could be wrong.

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She is from NL. It’s confirmed

[Anonymous]

With tryouts all over around the DMV and Maryland regions, I hope all 28s have found a home or will be receiving an offer tomorrow. Best of luck to everyone as they settle into their new teams and start the high school journey!

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I disagree with posts on Stars/SSSAS girls making Capital. Lots did not. Unfortunately lots of folks think these girls have an advantage in lacrosse but they do not. They have to compete just like everyone else. If you count the numbers they had 1 blue, 4 orange and at least 10 did not make either. Another rumor destroyed by facts.

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Anonymous wrote:Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

Whatever the model, it’s working for Capital. The market ultimately decides success v failure. Recruiting is how every HS club’s strength is determined and Capital has proven it has that formula down.

No one said that Capital is not successful but way to move the goal post.

Oh right!!! Forgot that you get to decide what’s said here .. ttttttthat’s on me.

You just lost the argument about clinics/camps soundly and tried to make it into something else. You are free to make all the stupid comments you’d like. It is entertaining.

And you lost the argument that every other MD camp offers camps and clinics to scout talent. Divert the discussion any way you want — non profit v profit, whatever — every club holds camps to generate revenue and identify potential players. And every player who wants exposure to said clubs will pay to do it.

[Anonymous]

Ok now that the teams have been drafted and picked let’s start with predictions for the fall.

I’ll start.

Capital Blue 2028 8-8

Capital Orange 2028 1-15

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Anonymous wrote:Ok now that the teams have been drafted and picked let’s start with predictions for the fall.

I’ll start.

Capital Blue 2028 8-8

Capital Orange 2028 1-15

This is hilarious trolling. You don't even know the draws at the tourney's yet. DG would have a heart attack trying to predict in the dark with no data.

I will still say this is low for both teams.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok now that the teams have been drafted and picked let’s start with predictions for the fall.

I’ll start.

Capital Blue 2028 8-8

Capital Orange 2028 1-15

This is hilarious trolling. You don't even know the draws at the tourney's yet. DG would have a heart attack trying to predict in the dark with no data.

I will still say this is low for both teams.

Prediction guessing dart throwing. Never trolling.

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Anonymous wrote:Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

Whatever the model, it’s working for Capital. The market ultimately decides success v failure. Recruiting is how every HS club’s strength is determined and Capital has proven it has that formula down.

No one said that Capital is not successful but way to move the goal post.

Oh right!!! Forgot that you get to decide what’s said here .. ttttttthat’s on me.

You just lost the argument about clinics/camps soundly and tried to make it into something else. You are free to make all the stupid comments you’d like. It is entertaining.

And you lost the argument that every other MD camp offers camps and clinics to scout talent. Divert the discussion any way you want — non profit v profit, whatever — every club holds camps to generate revenue and identify potential players. And every player who wants exposure to said clubs will pay to do it.

Every other MD club does not hold camps clinics as a cash grab / player identification. That was proven in the whole Hero’s discussion yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:Face it, the current model for the top clubs in DC - Capital, Pride and Stars is for profit. That means they try to maximize their dollars for the owners anyway they can. The days of a more altruistic club scene in DC where maybe it was to prepare girls, play or just cover costs and pay coaches are over.

Whatever the model, it’s working for Capital. The market ultimately decides success v failure. Recruiting is how every HS club’s strength is determined and Capital has proven it has that formula down.

No one said that Capital is not successful but way to move the goal post.

Oh right!!! Forgot that you get to decide what’s said here .. ttttttthat’s on me.

You just lost the argument about clinics/camps soundly and tried to make it into something else. You are free to make all the stupid comments you’d like. It is entertaining.

And you lost the argument that every other MD camp offers camps and clinics to scout talent. Divert the discussion any way you want — non profit v profit, whatever — every club holds camps to generate revenue and identify potential players. And every player who wants exposure to said clubs will pay to do it.

Every other MD club does not hold camps clinics as a cash grab / player identification. That was proven in the whole Hero’s discussion yesterday.

This is correct. Our DD is on one of the big 3 clubs and there has never been any pre tryout clinics, workouts or money grab sessions. New potential players may attend a practice prior to tryouts with no cost. The best players are chosen during tryouts without the politics or poor evaluations from coaches who have no place there.

There used to be a few spring sessions prior to tryouts for Capital. Now there are multiple sessions running all the way from fall through spring. What are those for?

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter was lucky enough to make one of these teams. Wish we had tried out for a MD team last year. The juice may not be worth the squeeze of all of the stress expended.

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I agree. Say what you will about MD teams, they do not have any of mass hysteria and financial burdens of trying out for their teams as Capital does. It was truly a miserable experience and I hope parents push back on all of the pointless clinics and HB sessions.

Right, no drama at the MD teams. Just smooth sailing. And no stress over tryouts either, right? Those cut-throat sessions happen at a much younger age group, where children are far mentally equipped to handle audition and rejection.

There is absolutely no comparison to the outright paranoia of the week leading up to Capital tryouts at any of the MD teams nor any of the expenses like Capital hits people up for. I am a Capital parent so I buy into it just think it is all a bit much.

So you don’t think a third- or fourth-grade child trying to compete to be on a MD team has a magnetized level of
stress on her shoulders? “Will I make it?” .. “Will I still be welcomed by my old team if I don’t?” … “Will my new team accept me - or marginalize me - even if I do make it”? All questions running thru a far younger-child’s mind.

You are making $hit up. You must be a Capital director.

Wrong on both fronts. I’m a parent who’s been thru it, JA.

So you paid thousands in clinics and HB sessions and dealt with 140+ families all clamoring to learn if they earned a spot on a MD team. You are so full of crap. You’re a good apparatchik.

Every club has a version of this. Hero’s evaluates talent at its summer skills academy which start just before tryouts. Coppermine offers spring clinics. Players who want to play for these teams go (and pay) to meet the coaches and club admin and get noticed.

Right. They don’t have 6 of them though at $70+ a pop plus all of the HB clinics. It’s not even close. Capital gets away with it though because it is the only ball game in town.

The Hero’s summer skills academy is more for rec players and related to the old Hero’s program before it became a club team. Not a recruiting vehicle for the club teams. For Hero’s, you come to the tryout or a practice and if you can play - you have a shot. None of this nonsense with pay to play training sessions.

So, Hero's/M&D closed system is better? It seem that their process not only requires a stand out player that is not already playing for a top team, but also has the connections to arrange for a workout/ try-out. And, don't respond that anyone can call up those programs and arrange for a work out for a player, because it is not easy to get their attention, understandably so.

Shame on Capital for providing the opportunity for any player to get time playing in front of their coaches and current players over an extended period of time to potentially get an opportunity to play for their club.

By this logic every camp by every club is a money grab.

Not at all and you win the award for best straw argument. If you can’t figure out the differences between the MD approach and the Capital approach after reading all the previous posts than I have nothing else to say.

Weeks and weeks of Hero’s camps taking money from rec players hoping to get looks from tryout evaluators for spots on teams doesn’t sound much different NGL. Just because this process happens at a younger age bracket doesn’t mean it’s any less stressful. Likely way more stressful in fact given the younger age.

You cannot be this stupid but apparently you are. Also, Hero’s is a non-profit organization you twit.

Do you think nonprofits don’t make money?!

100% very naive to believe that nonprofits don't make money.

[Anonymous]

Did something happen with the Next Level team? Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think I've heard of any Capital players from the last 3 years coming from NL.