2026 Girls Player Commitments🥍🥍

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Anonymous wrote:“These can be expensive individual recruiting showcases, not team events.”

Are you now saying that Cap parents can’t afford these showcases but other programs families can? Hilarious how this keeps shifting.

Read the rest of what she said. You are being purposely dense. For what purpose is what I don’t understand. Why do you care to prove that these girls were not recruited by top teams? How does that make you feel better? Again not 10 but a few… how is that so hard to believe?

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Anonymous wrote:I have been an avid poster here and am enjoying the conversation but what I am genuinely confused about is why someone would think someone else is lying. If your kid committed to an Ivy they very well could have had interest from other top schools. I truly don’t think it is that far fetched that people would insinuate someone is lying about it. What incentive is there for them to do that?

This place is exhausting. Not one person has insinuated that a parent is lying about their kid and interest. Yet.

There really isn't a lot of difference between some of these top seven lacrosse clubs. CapBlue beat Long Island Top Gun, the #2 ranked team, and Heroes during the summer in front of over 40 coaches. They see the talent! Those top players on CapBlue can compete with the top players on any of these other teams. It is absurd for someone to imply that top players on the 7th ranked team in the country cannot play at the top 10 lacrosse schools in the country. Not all the players on CapBlue could, but there are 10 to 11 players who can! If you look at other clubs' rosters, it pans out about the same, mixing in some Ivies. This year just happened to be a particularly strong Ivy League year for CapBlue 2026.

You people are insane. Colleges recruit individual athletes, not teams. It is not the coaches' rating system, but it kinda is from some feedback and can serve as a proxy at least. Capital has all of 2 girls that are ranked as the top 70 players as of now in the country, as 5 or 4 stars. The top teams will be targeting a lot of these girls, every year. They will also have their own lists, and certainly from a recruiting class of 7-9 at least some will come from outside those 70 even for the top teams.

But in no way, shape or form will 10 players from any team anywhere with a total of two 5/4 stars be getting firm offers from the very best teams in the country. Not for Capital, not for xyz team that beat so-and-so @ the Elite Awesome Mid Atlantic Festival. No one.

Other (higher) ranked club teams have more (or many more) 5 and 4 stars, and they will have many more players playing for top teams, and even top 10 teams, where talent is already falling off. It's not any kind of coincidence.

I hate to break it to you but those individual player rankings don't mean much....coaches have said so themselves.....which has been shown during the recruitment process.

No worries, you're not breaking anything to me.
BC has 10 recruits.
4 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
3 - N/A

UNC has 9
5 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
1 - N/A

NW has 6, I think a 5 and 2 4s. And 2 from midwest and west, typical for them and often not rated. When they come to DC, they grab the All Met POTY, or a 5 star in Baltimore, not half the Capital team.

They and UNC and BC have classes that are proxied by ratings. They're doing a bad job of not matching up. So no, all the unrated Cap players, from what is a pool of at least 1-200 or many more unrated players, aren't begging off offers en masse.

One thing you're also completely missing is that a lot of these ratings are done by appearing at certain events hosted by Inside Lacrosse and certain INDIVIDUAL showcases or invite only events (Politics) where evaluation may happen. These can be expensive individual recruiting showcases, not team events. CapBlue has a very strict attendance policy, which conflicts with and limits players' ability to attend most of these costly, unnecessary events that could probably get more of them rated. A player doesn't need a five or four star rating or any of those individual showcases or rankings to get recruited; that is the whole point. A player can also pay to be evaluated by inside lacrosse.
It seems CapBlue wants the players to focus on the team and team building, not going to individual showcases to try to get four and five stars. Cap Blue players have never needed these star rating to get recruited. And for the most part, many cap blue players match up against these 4/5 star players on the field and at tournaments while coaches are watching.
Google about the star ratings and you'll get all kinds of information about the inconsistencies and the politics with it. It's even worse on the boys side- a player will not have a star rating and then they get committed and suddenly they're a five star!

This is ridiculous; all the top clubs have strict attendance policies and many are even more team focused with the girls playing together since they were little (not just for 2 years to get recruited).

Cap Blue players were at many, many expensive showcase events and prospect days!!

The team is having great result; but this post is just silly and misleading.

[Anonymous]

The 4/5 stars Inside lacrosse is a money making IL branding gimmick and most college coaches place little value on it. Just be so good at your game that you do not need any of it to get recruited to your favorite/desired school. Pretty simple.... 16 players on
team made the 3% of all HS LAX PLAYERS to go to D1 level Sure, sure without it. I am sure the remaining 3 are soon to follow. Social media and certain clubs play into the “star” gimmick but as you can see Cap Blue players seem to get recruited to schools those players want year after year.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been an avid poster here and am enjoying the conversation but what I am genuinely confused about is why someone would think someone else is lying. If your kid committed to an Ivy they very well could have had interest from other top schools. I truly don’t think it is that far fetched that people would insinuate someone is lying about it. What incentive is there for them to do that?

This place is exhausting. Not one person has insinuated that a parent is lying about their kid and interest. Yet.

There really isn't a lot of difference between some of these top seven lacrosse clubs. CapBlue beat Long Island Top Gun, the #2 ranked team, and Heroes during the summer in front of over 40 coaches. They see the talent! Those top players on CapBlue can compete with the top players on any of these other teams. It is absurd for someone to imply that top players on the 7th ranked team in the country cannot play at the top 10 lacrosse schools in the country. Not all the players on CapBlue could, but there are 10 to 11 players who can! If you look at other clubs' rosters, it pans out about the same, mixing in some Ivies. This year just happened to be a particularly strong Ivy League year for CapBlue 2026.

You people are insane. Colleges recruit individual athletes, not teams. It is not the coaches' rating system, but it kinda is from some feedback and can serve as a proxy at least. Capital has all of 2 girls that are ranked as the top 70 players as of now in the country, as 5 or 4 stars. The top teams will be targeting a lot of these girls, every year. They will also have their own lists, and certainly from a recruiting class of 7-9 at least some will come from outside those 70 even for the top teams.

But in no way, shape or form will 10 players from any team anywhere with a total of two 5/4 stars be getting firm offers from the very best teams in the country. Not for Capital, not for xyz team that beat so-and-so @ the Elite Awesome Mid Atlantic Festival. No one.

Other (higher) ranked club teams have more (or many more) 5 and 4 stars, and they will have many more players playing for top teams, and even top 10 teams, where talent is already falling off. It's not any kind of coincidence.

Lots of animated posts on this topic. After taking a deep breath, I will add a couple of points:

--It is true that Capital has relatively fewer high-ranked or 4-5 star players on Inside Lacrosse than some other top 10 teams. One element worth noting is that Capital does not really support the showcase circuit. A lot of the ranked kids have been going to showcases and camps since 8th grade or sooner, significantly increasing their chances of getting ranked or achieving a star rating. The staff of Inside Lacrosse goes to most of these events and evaluates players there. There some club politics and connections involved too, of course. Capital, on the other hand, discourages its players from attending these events, even in 9th grade, and maintains a strict no absences policy, so they don't get the same type of showcase visibility as girls on other top 10 clubs, and are less likely to get invites to these events when they are in their 10th grade recruiting year.

--That said, as the recruiting and competitive results demonstrate, Capital has outstanding players and they get great offers. Where Capital excels is in their recruiting and connections directly with schools. Is it plausible that a few to several Capital players received interest from historical lacrosse powerhouses, but chose Ivies? Certainly. The last poster is too skeptical of this. But do the traditional top clubs (YJ, M&D, etc) have a few more players at that caliber? Probably so.

No need to huff and puff. Rational dialogue on the above is possible.

[Anonymous]

Agreed and thank you for the thorough post. The thing I question is why the skeptics are so skeptical

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Anonymous wrote:I have been an avid poster here and am enjoying the conversation but what I am genuinely confused about is why someone would think someone else is lying. If your kid committed to an Ivy they very well could have had interest from other top schools. I truly don’t think it is that far fetched that people would insinuate someone is lying about it. What incentive is there for them to do that?

This place is exhausting. Not one person has insinuated that a parent is lying about their kid and interest. Yet.

There really isn't a lot of difference between some of these top seven lacrosse clubs. CapBlue beat Long Island Top Gun, the #2 ranked team, and Heroes during the summer in front of over 40 coaches. They see the talent! Those top players on CapBlue can compete with the top players on any of these other teams. It is absurd for someone to imply that top players on the 7th ranked team in the country cannot play at the top 10 lacrosse schools in the country. Not all the players on CapBlue could, but there are 10 to 11 players who can! If you look at other clubs' rosters, it pans out about the same, mixing in some Ivies. This year just happened to be a particularly strong Ivy League year for CapBlue 2026.

You people are insane. Colleges recruit individual athletes, not teams. It is not the coaches' rating system, but it kinda is from some feedback and can serve as a proxy at least. Capital has all of 2 girls that are ranked as the top 70 players as of now in the country, as 5 or 4 stars. The top teams will be targeting a lot of these girls, every year. They will also have their own lists, and certainly from a recruiting class of 7-9 at least some will come from outside those 70 even for the top teams.

But in no way, shape or form will 10 players from any team anywhere with a total of two 5/4 stars be getting firm offers from the very best teams in the country. Not for Capital, not for xyz team that beat so-and-so @ the Elite Awesome Mid Atlantic Festival. No one.

Other (higher) ranked club teams have more (or many more) 5 and 4 stars, and they will have many more players playing for top teams, and even top 10 teams, where talent is already falling off. It's not any kind of coincidence.

I hate to break it to you but those individual player rankings don't mean much....coaches have said so themselves.....which has been shown during the recruitment process.

No worries, you're not breaking anything to me.
BC has 10 recruits.
4 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
3 - N/A

UNC has 9
5 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
1 - N/A

NW has 6, I think a 5 and 2 4s. And 2 from midwest and west, typical for them and often not rated. When they come to DC, they grab the All Met POTY, or a 5 star in Baltimore, not half the Capital team.

They and UNC and BC have classes that are proxied by ratings. They're doing a bad job of not matching up. So no, all the unrated Cap players, from what is a pool of at least 1-200 or many more unrated players, aren't begging off offers en masse.

One thing you're also completely missing is that a lot of these ratings are done by appearing at certain events hosted by Inside Lacrosse and certain INDIVIDUAL showcases or invite only events (Politics) where evaluation may happen. These can be expensive individual recruiting showcases, not team events. CapBlue has a very strict attendance policy, which conflicts with and limits players' ability to attend most of these costly, unnecessary events that could probably get more of them rated. A player doesn't need a five or four star rating or any of those individual showcases or rankings to get recruited; that is the whole point. A player can also pay to be evaluated by inside lacrosse.
It seems CapBlue wants the players to focus on the team and team building, not going to individual showcases to try to get four and five stars. Cap Blue players have never needed these star rating to get recruited. And for the most part, many cap blue players match up against these 4/5 star players on the field and at tournaments while coaches are watching.
Google about the star ratings and you'll get all kinds of information about the inconsistencies and the politics with it. It's even worse on the boys side- a player will not have a star rating and then they get committed and suddenly they're a five star!

This is incorrect. The girls attended many showcase events and prospect days. The attendance policy is a challenge but I don't know of anyone lost out or or didn't get recruited as a result. Many girls are still going to these events.

[Anonymous]

Hero Green to VIRGINIA Tech - Go Hokies

Only a measly 3% of high school lacrosse players actually make it to play Division 1 in college. Seriously, let that sink in before you start tearing apart a family's choice or a player's decision to attend a particular school!


💙Capital Blue 2026 USCLUBLAX Rank #7
1 W&M A
1 Mercer A
1 Columbia D
1 Columbia D
1 Duke M
1 Dartmouth D
1 Yale A
1 Yale M/D
1 Princeton Left A
1 Harvard M/D/A/draw
1 Harvard M/A/D
1 Denver Draw/M
1 Michigan Defender
1 Virginia Tech A
1 Florida State
1 Florida State Draw
1 Holy Cross A
1 OREGON A

Capital Orange 2026🧡 USCLUBLAX RANK #63
1 Colgate
1 William & Mary

M&D 2026 🖤 USCLUBLAX Rank #2
1 UMBC D
1 JMU M
1 Clemson M
1 Florida M
1 Florida M
1 UVA D
1 Syracuse A
1 Syracuse
1 Notre Dame M
1 Ohio State A
1 Boston College A
1 Army A
1 Navy
1 Denver A

M&D RED 🎈USClublax Rank #36
1 Army
1 Hofstra M
1 Monmouth M
1 Pitt Goalie*
1 Liberty A
1 Bryant A
1 UMBC M

Hero Green 2026💚 USCLUBAX RANK #5
1 Virginia Tech
1 Louisville M
1 Campbell University
1 Georgetown goalie*
1 Maryland
1 Univeristy of South Florida
1 University of South Florida
1 Virginia Tech
1 Oregon *goalie
1 Maryland attack/midfield
1 Navy
1 Boston College
1 Vanderbilt

CAVLAX ELITE 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #40
1 Virginia Tech D
1 George Mason M
1 UNC D
1 UVA M
1 Navy
1 Rhode Island
1 Kennesaw State

Skywalkers Blue🩵2026 RANK #21
1 Mercer
1 Cincinnati
1 Saint Joseph
1 UNC - Charlotte
1 Georgetown D
1 Brown
1 Princeton
1 Villanova
1 USC
1 UPENN
1 Ohio State
1 Georgetown
1 Clemson
1 USC goalie*


Skywalkers 2026 White
1 High Point goalie*
1 Stanford
1 Rollins
1 Roanoke
1 LaSalle
1 Jacksonville goalie*

TLC RED 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #28
1 University of Richmond (?) M
1 Princeton
1 John Hopkins M
1 Monmouth D
1 St Mary's College A
1 St Mary's College A

Integrity Green 2026🌿USCLUBLAX RANK #25
1 UPenn goalie*
1 UVA goalie *
1 Virginia Tech
1 West Point Army
1 Davidson
1 HPU

HOCO 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK #43
1 Ohio State Goalie
1 Duke Goalie

Pride Black NOVA Loudon (2026) Rank #72
1 SCAD *goalie

YJMA🐝 Rank #130
1 UNC Charlotte A
1 Brown M/D

3D Mid-Atlantic ? Need team Ranking?
1 Louisville A
1 Elon D

⭐️ STARS ⭐️ 2026 USCLUBLAX RANK

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Anonymous wrote:I have been an avid poster here and am enjoying the conversation but what I am genuinely confused about is why someone would think someone else is lying. If your kid committed to an Ivy they very well could have had interest from other top schools. I truly don’t think it is that far fetched that people would insinuate someone is lying about it. What incentive is there for them to do that?

This place is exhausting. Not one person has insinuated that a parent is lying about their kid and interest. Yet.

There really isn't a lot of difference between some of these top seven lacrosse clubs. CapBlue beat Long Island Top Gun, the #2 ranked team, and Heroes during the summer in front of over 40 coaches. They see the talent! Those top players on CapBlue can compete with the top players on any of these other teams. It is absurd for someone to imply that top players on the 7th ranked team in the country cannot play at the top 10 lacrosse schools in the country. Not all the players on CapBlue could, but there are 10 to 11 players who can! If you look at other clubs' rosters, it pans out about the same, mixing in some Ivies. This year just happened to be a particularly strong Ivy League year for CapBlue 2026.

You people are insane. Colleges recruit individual athletes, not teams. It is not the coaches' rating system, but it kinda is from some feedback and can serve as a proxy at least. Capital has all of 2 girls that are ranked as the top 70 players as of now in the country, as 5 or 4 stars. The top teams will be targeting a lot of these girls, every year. They will also have their own lists, and certainly from a recruiting class of 7-9 at least some will come from outside those 70 even for the top teams.

But in no way, shape or form will 10 players from any team anywhere with a total of two 5/4 stars be getting firm offers from the very best teams in the country. Not for Capital, not for xyz team that beat so-and-so @ the Elite Awesome Mid Atlantic Festival. No one.

Other (higher) ranked club teams have more (or many more) 5 and 4 stars, and they will have many more players playing for top teams, and even top 10 teams, where talent is already falling off. It's not any kind of coincidence.

I hate to break it to you but those individual player rankings don't mean much....coaches have said so themselves.....which has been shown during the recruitment process.

No worries, you're not breaking anything to me.
BC has 10 recruits.
4 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
3 - N/A

UNC has 9
5 - 5 star, 3 - 4 star
1 - N/A

NW has 6, I think a 5 and 2 4s. And 2 from midwest and west, typical for them and often not rated. When they come to DC, they grab the All Met POTY, or a 5 star in Baltimore, not half the Capital team.

They and UNC and BC have classes that are proxied by ratings. They're doing a bad job of not matching up. So no, all the unrated Cap players, from what is a pool of at least 1-200 or many more unrated players, aren't begging off offers en masse.

One thing you're also completely missing is that a lot of these ratings are done by appearing at certain events hosted by Inside Lacrosse and certain INDIVIDUAL showcases or invite only events (Politics) where evaluation may happen. These can be expensive individual recruiting showcases, not team events. CapBlue has a very strict attendance policy, which conflicts with and limits players' ability to attend most of these costly, unnecessary events that could probably get more of them rated. A player doesn't need a five or four star rating or any of those individual showcases or rankings to get recruited; that is the whole point. A player can also pay to be evaluated by inside lacrosse.
It seems CapBlue wants the players to focus on the team and team building, not going to individual showcases to try to get four and five stars. Cap Blue players have never needed these star rating to get recruited. And for the most part, many cap blue players match up against these 4/5 star players on the field and at tournaments while coaches are watching.
Google about the star ratings and you'll get all kinds of information about the inconsistencies and the politics with it. It's even worse on the boys side- a player will not have a star rating and then they get committed and suddenly they're a five star!

This is incorrect. The girls attended many showcase events and prospect days. The attendance policy is a challenge but I don't know of anyone lost out or or didn't get recruited as a result. Many girls are still going to these events.

And you know this b/c you are a parent on the team? Or did you personally go to all showcases and prospect days to take attendance?

[Anonymous]

And on the flip side, some people find it absolutely insane that anyone would choose Syracuse or UMD over any of the Ivies.
Because when lacrosse is over, 4 years from now, where do you want your degree from? UMD over Columbia?
That seems a very, very poor choice.

My point is, there are people on both sides.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And on the flip side, some people find it absolutely insane that anyone would choose Syracuse or UMD over any of the Ivies.
Because when lacrosse is over, 4 years from now, where do you want your degree from? UMD over Columbia?
That seems a very, very poor choice.

My point is, there are people on both sides.

No one getting offered at Maryland is going to Columbia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And on the flip side, some people find it absolutely insane that anyone would choose Syracuse or UMD over any of the Ivies.
Because when lacrosse is over, 4 years from now, where do you want your degree from? UMD over Columbia?
That seems a very, very poor choice.

My point is, there are people on both sides.

No one getting offered at Maryland is going to Columbia.

But they might go to Harvard or Yale...

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Anonymous wrote:And on the flip side, some people find it absolutely insane that anyone would choose Syracuse or UMD over any of the Ivies.
Because when lacrosse is over, 4 years from now, where do you want your degree from? UMD over Columbia?
That seems a very, very poor choice.

My point is, there are people on both sides.

No one getting offered at Maryland is going to Columbia.

But they might go to Harvard or Yale...

Sure, reply to me for a simple reply to their ridiculous comment. She said Columbia. She also said UMd is a very very bad choice. For who, exactly? Sounds pretty pretentious.

But counter a strawman to me when I merely point out one of your team's ridiculous strawmen.

[Anonymous]

Going to the university of Maryland over ANY Ivy League school is absolutely a poor choice. Who would argue with that? When you are 22, lacrosse is then OVER.
and you have an ivy league degree or a UMD degree?
Not to mention the quality of your classes, professors, curriculum, facilities, the intellectual level and intellectual curiosity of your classmates, the Ivy League connections and network.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going to the university of Maryland over ANY Ivy League school is absolutely a poor choice. Who would argue with that? When you are 22, lacrosse is then OVER.
and you have an ivy league degree or a UMD degree?
Not to mention the quality of your classes, professors, curriculum, facilities, the intellectual level and intellectual curiosity of your classmates, the Ivy League connections and network.

Athletes all over the country that choose schools just like Maryland would argue with that. Some percentage of which an Ivy would trip over themselves to have. And the same.goes for students. But only you are correct, right?

There are excellent students that do exceptionally well. Where, pray tell, is the ubiquitous facebook page that urges us to celebrate every individual"s and family's choice? The pretension on this thread is overwhelming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Going to the university of Maryland over ANY Ivy League school is absolutely a poor choice. Who would argue with that? When you are 22, lacrosse is then OVER.
and you have an ivy league degree or a UMD degree?
Not to mention the quality of your classes, professors, curriculum, facilities, the intellectual level and intellectual curiosity of your classmates, the Ivy League connections and network.

i disagree. What’s the goal of the individual making the decision? Be specific. Maybe it’s going to school for free, testing yourself against the greatest competition, winning a national championship or representing our country in the Olympics. And maybe you have zero interest in investment banking, law school, or being surrounded by classmates you have little in common with in an environment that most admit is less than fun, or worse. Bottom line, a young woman who plays D1 lax at Maryland competes for national championships, and graduates has every reason to be confident she will have excellent opportunities the rest of her life. The idea that a lifetime of fulfillment and opportunity is limited to Ivy league grads is absurd and we all know it.