VHSL Boys Lacrosse 2026 Season

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why does all FCPS, but seemingly especially for lacrosse, sports schedules and websites etc have bad info?

School athletic sites don't always have schedules, and even if they do they are not accurate. Rosters are not accurate for prior seasons. You don't even see prior year results.

To see rosters or schedules you have to go to a *different* website, possibly just for your District, to see schedules and rosters.

But then you have to go to MaxPreps, or LaxNumbers or even another site to find scores from prior years. But not all schools have an active LaxNumbers profile so those schedules aren't showing. And MaxPreps can also be horrifically out of date. Or just have the wrong school listed as an opponent because the name is similar.

FCPS and LCPS (Loudoun) keep switching companies, that are supposed to make things easier and allow different systems to talk to each other. It's a total shit show for the Users to add rosters, add and update schedules.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does all FCPS, but seemingly especially for lacrosse, sports schedules and websites etc have bad info?

School athletic sites don't always have schedules, and even if they do they are not accurate. Rosters are not accurate for prior seasons. You don't even see prior year results.

To see rosters or schedules you have to go to a *different* website, possibly just for your District, to see schedules and rosters.

But then you have to go to MaxPreps, or LaxNumbers or even another site to find scores from prior years. But not all schools have an active LaxNumbers profile so those schedules aren't showing. And MaxPreps can also be horrifically out of date. Or just have the wrong school listed as an opponent because the name is similar.

FCPS and LCPS (Loudoun) keep switching companies, that are supposed to make things easier and allow different systems to talk to each other. It's a total shit show for the Users to add rosters, add and update schedules.

This matches what I've heard from several people, and it isn't the "they're lazy" answer that someone else provided.

Having multiple vendors doing overlapping but also dissimilar IT services is sadly common but really ridiculous.

SOME FCPS schools seem to have athletics sites that are full of scores, rosters, schedules etc. Other schools have almost nothing. If one team is inputting a score for a game it is supposed to flow to the other school, but I'm sure it has to be set up properly by both schools etc.

In 2026 we should easily be able to see schedules and scores. I'm not asking for stats. I don't know if the Post ever published HS lacrosse stats but it used to have HS baseball stats and I lived for that. I'm not asking for stats. I don't want to spend at least an hour trying to figure out who a school beat last year, what the score was, and how the opponents faired in their other games.

I'll literally pay money for the stupid NFHS video feeds to not spend 30% of each game on the wrong side of the field, or to miss the face off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does all FCPS, but seemingly especially for lacrosse, sports schedules and websites etc have bad info?

School athletic sites don't always have schedules, and even if they do they are not accurate. Rosters are not accurate for prior seasons. You don't even see prior year results.

To see rosters or schedules you have to go to a *different* website, possibly just for your District, to see schedules and rosters.

But then you have to go to MaxPreps, or LaxNumbers or even another site to find scores from prior years. But not all schools have an active LaxNumbers profile so those schedules aren't showing. And MaxPreps can also be horrifically out of date. Or just have the wrong school listed as an opponent because the name is similar.

FCPS and LCPS (Loudoun) keep switching companies, that are supposed to make things easier and allow different systems to talk to each other. It's a total shit show for the Users to add rosters, add and update schedules.

It is absolutely because they are lazy. Enter the data. It's not that hard.

This matches what I've heard from several people, and it isn't the "they're lazy" answer that someone else provided.

Having multiple vendors doing overlapping but also dissimilar IT services is sadly common but really ridiculous.

SOME FCPS schools seem to have athletics sites that are full of scores, rosters, schedules etc. Other schools have almost nothing. If one team is inputting a score for a game it is supposed to flow to the other school, but I'm sure it has to be set up properly by both schools etc.

In 2026 we should easily be able to see schedules and scores. I'm not asking for stats. I don't know if the Post ever published HS lacrosse stats but it used to have HS baseball stats and I lived for that. I'm not asking for stats. I don't want to spend at least an hour trying to figure out who a school beat last year, what the score was, and how the opponents faired in their other games.

I'll literally pay money for the stupid NFHS video feeds to not spend 30% of each game on the wrong side of the field, or to miss the face off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why does all FCPS, but seemingly especially for lacrosse, sports schedules and websites etc have bad info?

School athletic sites don't always have schedules, and even if they do they are not accurate. Rosters are not accurate for prior seasons. You don't even see prior year results.

To see rosters or schedules you have to go to a *different* website, possibly just for your District, to see schedules and rosters.

But then you have to go to MaxPreps, or LaxNumbers or even another site to find scores from prior years. But not all schools have an active LaxNumbers profile so those schedules aren't showing. And MaxPreps can also be horrifically out of date. Or just have the wrong school listed as an opponent because the name is similar.

FCPS and LCPS (Loudoun) keep switching companies, that are supposed to make things easier and allow different systems to talk to each other. It's a total shit show for the Users to add rosters, add and update schedules.

It takes about 1 hour to setup a team and full schedule in GameChanger. It's not that hard.

This matches what I've heard from several people, and it isn't the "they're lazy" answer that someone else provided.

Having multiple vendors doing overlapping but also dissimilar IT services is sadly common but really ridiculous.

SOME FCPS schools seem to have athletics sites that are full of scores, rosters, schedules etc. Other schools have almost nothing. If one team is inputting a score for a game it is supposed to flow to the other school, but I'm sure it has to be set up properly by both schools etc.

In 2026 we should easily be able to see schedules and scores. I'm not asking for stats. I don't know if the Post ever published HS lacrosse stats but it used to have HS baseball stats and I lived for that. I'm not asking for stats. I don't want to spend at least an hour trying to figure out who a school beat last year, what the score was, and how the opponents faired in their other games.

I'll literally pay money for the stupid NFHS video feeds to not spend 30% of each game on the wrong side of the field, or to miss the face off.

[Anonymous]

It takes about 1 hour to input a roster and do the entire schedule on GameChanger. It's not that hard unless we are talking about a public service employee.

[Anonymous]

Rosters aren’t even made yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rosters aren’t even made yet.

I'm the OP, and I wasn't referencing *just* lacrosse. Obviously lacrosse schedules aren't made yet for public schools. I don't know when the latest vendor changes happened but prior season rosters are borked up, results are missing, etc. That might be a school by school thing, and might require coaches to manually fix older stuff, but in a list of priorities that has to be 75th. Especially if you're told yet another change is forthcoming and there will be more work to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It takes about 1 hour to input a roster and do the entire schedule on GameChanger. It's not that hard unless we are talking about a public service employee.

GameChanger is imperfect, but vastly better than whatever interface they have for this cockamamedied system.

Across FCPS athletic websites the top banner menu had to be manually redone (or something like that) because all the Fall/Winter/Spring built in menus weren't working well or were pointing to old/bad team information. So the SA departments had to make their own menus it seems.

[Anonymous]

Sorry inside lacrosse but mentioning Langley as top public in VA over Robinson, Indy, Madison, etc is just dumb. Someone sent a check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosters aren’t even made yet.

I'm the OP, and I wasn't referencing *just* lacrosse. Obviously lacrosse schedules aren't made yet for public schools. I don't know when the latest vendor changes happened but prior season rosters are borked up, results are missing, etc. That might be a school by school thing, and might require coaches to manually fix older stuff, but in a list of priorities that has to be 75th. Especially if you're told yet another change is forthcoming and there will be more work to do.

Vendor and administrative changes happen all the time across every company and every industry. It doesn't provide cover not to do anything unless you are in the government. Put the schedule in on time. If the privates can do it, the publics can too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry inside lacrosse but mentioning Langley as top public in VA over Robinson, Indy, Madison, etc is just dumb. Someone sent a check.

those teams seem pretty even to me, along with a couple of others. who would you put first and why?

[Anonymous]

Robinson (proven performer, will score enough to win a lot of games when coupled with their championship level d)

Langley (lots of talent on o, d somewhat a ? but likely the most talented team that needs to just get over hump in May/June games)

Madison (coaching along keeps them in the hunt)

Indy (needs to prove themselves in 6a vs the good teams before too much credit given)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry inside lacrosse but mentioning Langley as top public in VA over Robinson, Indy, Madison, etc is just dumb. Someone sent a check.

It’s almost like Inside Lacrosse isn’t a fully reliable source…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry inside lacrosse but mentioning Langley as top public in VA over Robinson, Indy, Madison, etc is just dumb. Someone sent a check.

It’s almost like Inside Lacrosse isn’t a fully reliable source…

Complaining about reliability while on DCUM seems kind of stupid.

[Anonymous]

How did the Oakton 5 do at tryouts?