2023 Boys Private School Results /Game Schedules/ Commentary

[Anonymous]

DC Championships was run by Corrigan Sports and was planned for its 2nd year in 2022. BUT last year, St John's declined to play after going 19 - 0 during the regular season and WCAC championship. This would be an exciting event but having teams back out of the event at the last minute made it impossible for Corrigan Sports to plan moving forward.

[Anonymous]

I saw Gonzaga was participating in this event in May.

https://victoryeventseries.com/national-prep/

[Anonymous]

Kind of crazy that St. John’s has the one and only DC Championship trophy and the BEST HS TEAM to ever play. Coach Speaks and Coach Ince are awesome recruiters. Hold them close coaches, don’t treat them like 💩 and they won’t leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Owen Duffy may be best player in 2023 class. He certainly picked his spots. I thought STA FO was great and outplayed significantly the SJC FO. [/quote


I was sleeping the stats, SJC fogo went 60% had 8 gbs and 2 goals, let the midfield in goals. I think he had a significantly better game than St. Anthony’s Fogo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

The Prep trick? Nah Not at St. John’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

The Prep trick? Nah Not at St. John’s.

Is it because he wants to graduate with his brother or something? Strange if true but having him again will most definitely help sjc.

[Anonymous]

Does Bullis press out on 4 tomorrow? Do they try the physical game on St. John’s? Is the mom that was at St. Albans attending? Did someone get her a muzzle?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

The Prep trick? Nah Not at St. John’s.

Is it because he wants to graduate with his brother or something? Strange if true but having him again will most definitely help sjc.

Bogus. Kid will be playing for Michigan next year.

[Anonymous]

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

I don't think this true and I have never heard of anyone repeating their senior year.

This speaks volumes about the school for even entertaining this.

Be an adult, move onto the college ranks, and see if you truly have what it takes at the next level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

I don't think this true and I have never heard of anyone repeating their senior year.

This speaks volumes about the school for even entertaining this.

Be an adult, move onto the college ranks, and see if you truly have what it takes at the next level.

Yup, this is confirmed tho he is repeating his senior year at sjc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

I don't think this true and I have never heard of anyone repeating their senior year.

This speaks volumes about the school for even entertaining this.

Be an adult, move onto the college ranks, and see if you truly have what it takes at the next level.

Yup, this is confirmed tho he is repeating his senior year at sjc.

Why? He is already committed to Michigan? SJC will not be very good next year as they are losing their goalie. Why would he stay?

[Anonymous]

True idiots on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sjc face off guy is technically a jr as from what I have heard he is repeating his senior year. So he has the rest of this year and next year at sjc.

I don't think this true and I have never heard of anyone repeating their senior year.

This speaks volumes about the school for even entertaining this.

Be an adult, move onto the college ranks, and see if you truly have what it takes at the next level.

Yup, this is confirmed tho he is repeating his senior year at sjc.

Why? He is already committed to Michigan? SJC will not be very good next year as they are losing their goalie. Why would he stay?

St. John’s will be very good next year. Very young this year. Look at what they are doing this year after losing the 22 class. Everyone loses players.