2023 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

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Anonymous wrote:It was a great atmosphere with a good crowd. Two 2022 grads from Gonzaga playing heavy minutes for UNC. Are the SJC’s 2022s getting any time for Syracuse?

Rhoa is getting alot of time for Cuse. I believe he bounces between first and second mids. Think he has 7 goals or so. Trujillo was getting minutes as short stick D mid but havent seen him in a while. Figueiras is injured and out for the season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a great atmosphere with a good crowd. Two 2022 grads from Gonzaga playing heavy minutes for UNC. Are the SJC’s 2022s getting any time for Syracuse?

Rhoa (M) in on 2nd line, Trujillo has played sparingly this season, and Figueiras has been out with a “lower body injury” (ACL) that occurred in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there going to be a DC or Geico Championship this year? The top teams from the IAC and WCAC need a championship tournament.

Nah. These teams can play each other during the reg season if all parties want to.

[Anonymous]

Bullis has something called DC Championships and also Geico Nationals listed on their official schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there going to be a DC or Geico Championship this year? The top teams from the IAC and WCAC need a championship tournament.

Nah. These teams can play each other during the reg season if all parties want to.

Disagree...

beating a team in March has less meaning than beating a team in May.

Look at Duke and UVA and Notre Dame in the college ranks. These teams could very well square off 3x this spring.

The two league champions, from the two best conferences in the DC area, should play one final bout in May.

Mad Lax founder can sponsor it.

[Anonymous]

Madlax Rankings.
1. Landon versus 2. Madlax National 2023

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Madlax Rankings.
1. Landon versus 2. Madlax National 2023

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[Anonymous]

That St. John's wants to coast on Laurels from last year and say they are the best this year because they were the best last year is specious. Prep is better.

That St. John's hasn't gone after kids from other schools is also a little bit of the ostrich in the sand routine. SJCHS has an assistant coach who only coaches Lacrosse and Hockey and recruits for both sports. That is his job Ladies and Gentlemen. There is a sophomore attackman at SJCHS who was a freshman at Landon last year. Other schools have experienced this same thing. When a kid is at your school one year, and at another the next, people can get testy. Coach Speaks also only coaches and I think the same can be said for Coach Heater at STA.. I think most coaches at other Schools, Belistri, McGettigan, and then all the downstream program coaches actually teach, coach other sports, mentor advisees, etc.


Prep hammered Landon. Prep would beat St. Johns, but they will have to simply let Gonzaga put it on SJCHS in the WCAC Tourney and then play transitive property.

Who finishes on Top between St. Albans, Episcopal, and Landon will be interesting. I think there could be three 1-1 records between those three teams.

Same old story with PVI-Great athletes all over the place, where is the coaching?

[Anonymous]

That St. John's wants to coast on Laurels from last year and say they are the best this year because they were the best last year is specious. Prep is better.

Zero affiliation with Prep but I tend to agree with this statement.

It will be interesting to see how SJC does against Bullis this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That St. John's wants to coast on Laurels from last year and say they are the best this year because they were the best last year is specious. Prep is better.

That St. John's hasn't gone after kids from other schools is also a little bit of the ostrich in the sand routine. SJCHS has an assistant coach who only coaches Lacrosse and Hockey and recruits for both sports. That is his job Ladies and Gentlemen. There is a sophomore attackman at SJCHS who was a freshman at Landon last year. Other schools have experienced this same thing. When a kid is at your school one year, and at another the next, people can get testy. Coach Speaks also only coaches and I think the same can be said for Coach Heater at STA.. I think most coaches at other Schools, Belistri, McGettigan, and then all the downstream program coaches actually teach, coach other sports, mentor advisees, etc.

Funny comment. Speaks does teach classes in health/phys Ed. Department as well as being a strength coach for other sports. And the other coach you speak of teaches PE. They don’t just coach and recruit.

Bullis has a player that was at SJC last year and the Prep kid has been to three different high schools.

Just maybe in all these cases with the players, they weren’t happy with where they are and explored other options initiated on their own.

Just when you think you know, you don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That St. John's wants to coast on Laurels from last year and say they are the best this year because they were the best last year is specious. Prep is better.

That St. John's hasn't gone after kids from other schools is also a little bit of the ostrich in the sand routine. SJCHS has an assistant coach who only coaches Lacrosse and Hockey and recruits for both sports. That is his job Ladies and Gentlemen. There is a sophomore attackman at SJCHS who was a freshman at Landon last year. Other schools have experienced this same thing. When a kid is at your school one year, and at another the next, people can get testy. Coach Speaks also only coaches and I think the same can be said for Coach Heater at STA.. I think most coaches at other Schools, Belistri, McGettigan, and then all the downstream program coaches actually teach, coach other sports, mentor advisees, etc.

Funny comment. Speaks does teach classes in health/phys Ed. Department as well as being a strength coach for other sports. And the other coach you speak of teaches PE. They don’t just coach and recruit.

Bullis has a player that was at SJC last year and the Prep kid has been to three different high schools.

Just maybe in all these cases with the players, they weren’t happy with where they are and explored other options initiated on their own.

Just when you think you know, you don’t.

Thanks for the information. Is Speaks teaching Lacrosse? Is he strength coaching his lacrosse kids and a few random field hockey players?
How many PE classes does the assistant teach. By the way, teaching PE is not the same as teaching Math or History or even working in admissions
Didn't know about the SJCHS kid at Bullis. Thanks for the info.
The Headmaster at Bullis has changed, but under The Old Regime, they recruited heavily. We will see how the changes over there work out over time.

Most of what I said was scuttle-butt, except, you don't get to say, "We were the best last year so we are the best this year." My eyeball test says Prep is better.

How much longer with the SJCHS faceoff guy be around? The Cadets might find life gets a lot harder without generational talents at faceoff and goalie.

[Anonymous]

Same guy here, none of my comments are to say Speaks hasn't done a great job on Military Rd.

[Anonymous]

The eyeball test is fine. Everyone has their opinion.
Why are you bringing up what a coach does in the building? Grasping buddy.
English teacher, Assistant AD, Assistant Director of Admissions, Director of Admissions, whatever. Every school does it differently. To try to use what the coach does in the building as a reason for success is funny.
That’s like saying, the assistant athletic Director, at Gonzaga, and at prep are the reason why they were successful. Or, the assistant coach working in admissions at Landon is they were successful.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why its so difficult to setup at least one additional game between the WCAC and IAC champion in May.

I don't think extending the season by a whopping 3 - 5 days will cause much harm in the grand scheme of things.

It's good for the area to have an ultimate DC area champion and good for the sport. Play it at Georgetown. Make it an annual May event. Grab a few local corporate sponsors to help pay for the facility rental and charge $5 at the gate. This is really not that difficult to do.

Most of all, the kids at all of these programs would want to play in one final game for all the marbles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why its so difficult to setup at least one additional game between the WCAC and IAC champion in May.

I don't think extending the season by a whopping 3 - 5 days will cause much harm in the grand scheme of things.

It's good for the area to have an ultimate DC area champion and good for the sport. Play it at Georgetown. Make it an annual May event. Grab a few local corporate sponsors to help pay for the facility rental and charge $5 at the gate. This is really not that difficult to do.

Most of all, the kids at all of these programs would want to play in one final game for all the marbles.

I would actually question whether or not kids really would want to play, end of the day the thing that seems to matter most, and likely will be remembered the longest, is winning your conference championship, whether it be the IAC, WCAC, public school, etc. Most private schools are already playing a ridiculous 20+ game schedule (3 games in 6 or 7 days at times). Now for the moms and dads maybe winning a pseudo "DC Area Championship" might be of interest but guessing the kids value their conference championship ring over any "DC Area Championship", especially one excludes any team not in the IAC/WCAC. It was very nice to haver this event in the COVID year where there were no conference championships but doubt there is a ton of interest at the school or kid level for this.