2023 Girls ISL and WCAC outlook
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Anonymous
| Holy Child isn't Visi or SR. Never will be. Stop blaming the coach. The 27s are going to SR and Visi w/ a sprinkling to SJC. |
Anonymous
Thats incorrect, according to the ISL web site they were 6-9 in 2023 with one goal losses to Visa and SSSA and five freshman starters. The parents who complained didn't realize this is HS varsity in one of the country's most competitive leagues. All the donations to the school don't mean much when your DD can't consistently pass or catch and doesn't execute in games what was taught in practice. |
Anonymous
https://www.laxnumbers.com/team_info.php?y=2022&t=21061 |
Anonymous
The 4 wins this year St.Mary’s Ryken, Bullis, SJC, & NCS. |
Anonymous
or, apparently, at Holy Child. |
Anonymous
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The job of a high school coach is not just to win. High school coaches act as important adult role models in a player's life. It is part of their job to motivate, support, and help EACH player reach their potential. It is a big responsibility to coach adolescents, they are still learning and growing and how a coach treats them can influence how them see themselves positively and negatively. The negatives being promoting self-doubt, negative self-talk and often a loss of love for their sport. Here are some characteristics of a good high school coach, and in my opinion, SS has none of these: Good coaches don't play favorites. Good coaches communicate without consistently using profanity, rather they use positive and constructive feedback to inspire and motivate while having sensitivity of what it's like to be an adolescent juggling the pressures of home, school and sport. Good coaches make kids feel good about themselves, and build up, not tear down their self-esteem.
Allegations of abusive coaching have piled up recently across college and pro athletic programs. There's a reason for that--The majority of people believe that verbal put-downs, swearing, threats of harm when players make mistakes are not acceptable. Of course, constructive criticism is expected but it's also expected that it not be hurtful or shaming. In closing I'll say that obviously opinions on coaches are subjective. However, even if your child started, was a favorite, or wasn't bothered by the coaching techniques of a coach, shouldn't you stand up and advocate for the kids who are being treated in an unacceptable manner. How is a player to be expected to develop chemistry with the team and expected to learn the plays if they are not even ever put in PRACTICE. There is a better way to coach and treat children and having some positive results in the win column shouldn't excuse unacceptable coaching behavior. |
Anonymous
| HC has an AD problem. 3 lacrosse coaches in 4 years and can’t keep coaches in any sport. Common denominator here is obvious. Why would anyone want to coach for a school where the parents run the show and the AD can’t manager her coaches? Stone ridge has the most abusive coach out there but somehow she stays. It’s all how the schools deal with it. HC lax coach was phenomenal. Unfortunately, a bitter parent with a bone to pick about playing time and big donor $$’s won the day. Sad for the girls and the coach. |
Anonymous
| SR 18 Holy Child 0 |
Anonymous
| It’ll be interesting to see where the 23s end up in five+ years. By then high school will be a distant memory. They’ll look back with perspective — were their D1 decisions a success or a mistake based on dreams lived or shattered? The real world will have set in. She’ll know if the school she chose positioned her well for the future. We all remember the kids who peaked in high school. You never wanted to peak in high school. |
Anonymous
Not Stone Ridge’s finest hour. |
Anonymous
Why is it always the daddy, of the girl who never wall balls, who threatens to sue the school over playing time. |
Anonymous
SR's head coach is a freaking wack job. She needs to learn to put life into perspective |
Anonymous
Everything you say is so true, but almost impossibly hard to find, especially in the lacrosse world. I think of my two girls at Potomac, in two different sports, and can identify one coach so far so far in the school who displays those things. They do not exist in the lacrosse program. In both club and high school, t's really a shame how many immature young women choose to coach when they have no conception of the effect their words and actions have on these young players. I wonder often if, as they age and have children of their own, if they ever become more self-aware and wish they behaved differently. |
Anonymous
maybe you are the former HC head coach? sr lax parent here. she is amazing. why do you think every high level lax player wants to play for her? |