Any MadLax parents here?

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Anonymous wrote:DCE won't last more than 3 more years. Ray McGill has had a falling out with Bullis coaching staff.

A bullis father is also behind the operation. Once his son graduates from Bullis the program will fizzle out.

The DCE 2021 team is a VERY STRONG TEAM, after that, the rest of their teams are average. Their 2022 team did not compete well in the HARCO league this Spring so don't give me that they are "very good"

Many 2021 DCE made the UA team

Prep and DCE coaches were evaluators so of course their guys dominated the roster (including the uncommitted game).

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Anonymous wrote:Girls program is very poor. All the teams re playing in the NGLL (National Girls Lacrosse League) - but all in the B divisions (lowest div) and not one team has won a single game. Not one win in the lowest division. Let that sink in a minute.

I am no Madlax fan here but the girls program is not yet even one year old so what do can be reasonably expected. Most of the girls who are good and play travel already play for other clubs. What will be interesting is if the HS teams for girls take off. There is a definite “need” for more HS girls clubs since so many of them end at 8th grade.

You are right there is a need for more HS teams but the only girls who will go to madlax will be those who can’t make the top established teams like Capital, M&D and Skywalkers. And even then, girls who don’t make those teams are going to go to MC Elite, VA Metro, Cardinals, or Crash, before they turn to a new club that can’t win a game at the grade school level and that has the name of a crazy obnoxious jerk of an owner attached to it.

This isn't necessarily true. Some girls will go to MadLax if there's a chance to play a lot and be seen and to stand out. They also might go because it's a new club and they are sick of the politics at existing clubs. As a parent of a child who could make some of these top teams, the appeal of going to a club like Madlax is that when college coaches come to see the games (or when they watch film after the fact) you will be a feature. We have met with top D3 coaches (NESCAC) and they told us that athletes pop no matter what team they play with. They don't care who else you play with if you can demonstrate top skills. Ideally you want one or two other decent players to string together plays to make it fun - and MadLax should be able to do this over time. But winning teams have no bearing on individual girls being recruited and but if girls already play for a top high school that has a pipeline to colleges, then club isn't as critical.

Time will tell whether they can put together a strong program but I wouldn't assume they won't. A few years ago Rebels was just starting and MC Elite was pretty much just Rockville Rec.

You are deluding yourself and you have highlighted the issue right there - college coaches won't be watching Madlax girls games for two reasons. 1) since the teams are terrible its unlikely they will have any great players (great players go to great clubs) and 2) they don't and won't go to the best tournaments where there are college coaches because they can't compete and/or won't get invited.

Seriously you have to be out of your mind if your DD is any good at lacrosse to have her play for Madlax. First the owner is a complete a$$ and charges way more than any other club and, second, there are so many other better clubs (with decent folks as the owners or board members) that only the girls who cannot make one of those better teams would go to Madlax.

NP and parent of 8th grade girl who plays on the B team of one of the area’s top MS clubs. My DS played for Madlax so we’d know what we’d be getting into if DD tries out for Madlax. No clue whether DD is good enough for the top HS clubs and no interest in college lax, just a girl who loves to play and is pretty good. Girls like this (and I know probably a dozen of them) are talking about trying out for Madlax. There just aren’t many options for them. Don’t tell me Cardinals- when DD tried out for them this past year not a single current player would so much as toss her the ball.

Exactly PP. It's hard to show well in tryouts if you don't get a pass at all. My DD plays attack and it's a nightmare at any tryout because even if you know the middies they won't pass to you.

To the PP who said college coaches won't look at a girl from Madlax, you are incorrect. We have met with coaches at top D3 who say that they don't put as much stock in the top few clubs as people think they do. If your daughter plays for a strong high school program and is the top player on a team like Madlax it will show. I had a coach tell me that athletes pop and she will know. They may not go to your game but they said all you do is send them a note after the tournament and say - take a look at the second half of game X where I scored three goals and had a great redefend. They have access to all of that film (you don't need to buy the film) and they most definitely go back and watch when a girl tells them that.

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Anonymous wrote:Girls program is very poor. All the teams re playing in the NGLL (National Girls Lacrosse League) - but all in the B divisions (lowest div) and not one team has won a single game. Not one win in the lowest division. Let that sink in a minute.

I am no Madlax fan here but the girls program is not yet even one year old so what do can be reasonably expected. Most of the girls who are good and play travel already play for other clubs. What will be interesting is if the HS teams for girls take off. There is a definite “need” for more HS girls clubs since so many of them end at 8th grade.

You are right there is a need for more HS teams but the only girls who will go to madlax will be those who can’t make the top established teams like Capital, M&D and Skywalkers. And even then, girls who don’t make those teams are going to go to MC Elite, VA Metro, Cardinals, or Crash, before they turn to a new club that can’t win a game at the grade school level and that has the name of a crazy obnoxious jerk of an owner attached to it.

This isn't necessarily true. Some girls will go to MadLax if there's a chance to play a lot and be seen and to stand out. They also might go because it's a new club and they are sick of the politics at existing clubs. As a parent of a child who could make some of these top teams, the appeal of going to a club like Madlax is that when college coaches come to see the games (or when they watch film after the fact) you will be a feature. We have met with top D3 coaches (NESCAC) and they told us that athletes pop no matter what team they play with. They don't care who else you play with if you can demonstrate top skills. Ideally you want one or two other decent players to string together plays to make it fun - and MadLax should be able to do this over time. But winning teams have no bearing on individual girls being recruited and but if girls already play for a top high school that has a pipeline to colleges, then club isn't as critical.

Time will tell whether they can put together a strong program but I wouldn't assume they won't. A few years ago Rebels was just starting and MC Elite was pretty much just Rockville Rec.

Yes but, those clubs didn't have a jacka$$ as an owner.

Guess you haven't met Mike Haight.

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What just happened to Madlax 2020 Cap in their tournament? I thought they were supposed to be good. Not being snarky; just trying to figure out how all this works.

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Anonymous wrote:What just happened to Madlax 2020 Cap in their tournament? I thought they were supposed to be good. Not being snarky; just trying to figure out how all this works.

The 2020 Capital team won the 2020 division championship pretty easily, without any close games.

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Anonymous wrote:What just happened to Madlax 2020 Cap in their tournament? I thought they were supposed to be good. Not being snarky; just trying to figure out how all this works.

The 2020 Capital team won the 2020 division championship pretty easily, without any close games.

Did you see the lineup of teams? They actually played an Evergreen team in the finals. Evergreen!

Crap tournament and terrible teams. Feel bad that Madlax parents had to pay for that.

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Anonymous wrote:What just happened to Madlax 2020 Cap in their tournament? I thought they were supposed to be good. Not being snarky; just trying to figure out how all this works.

The 2020 Capital team won the 2020 division championship pretty easily, without any close games.

Did you see the lineup of teams? They actually played an Evergreen team in the finals. Evergreen!

Crap tournament and terrible teams. Feel bad that Madlax parents had to pay for that.

Evergreen beat them, once at least, right? That's not encouraging for Madlax, or it is encouraging for Evergreen...?

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Anonymous wrote:What just happened to Madlax 2020 Cap in their tournament? I thought they were supposed to be good. Not being snarky; just trying to figure out how all this works.

The 2020 Capital team won the 2020 division championship pretty easily, without any close games.

Other than their loss?

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Most of those parents paid 25% of their summer tournament money on that crapfest at a literal crap field.

At least they get their credit cards dinged every month!

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What happened to the 2022 madlax team?

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2022 is very strong

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Anonymous wrote:2022 is very strong

Team started strong and fell apart.....daddy ball

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Anonymous wrote:2022 is very strong

Team started strong and fell apart.....daddy ball

14-4 beat down by 91NY at the final NLF event of the year I think the team is headed in the wrong direction.

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That's what happens when the dad coaches the tram

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Say what you will about evergreen but that 2020 team is decent. Sure they cater mostly to the Londoun publics, but a solid alternative to the lax bro infested madlax, blackwolf, and Vic, imo.