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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are on Madlax's blue team, what are the odds of moving up to orange.  My son is in high school.[/quote]

It depends.  Most of the kids on the Orange HS teams have been with the program for awhile, so it's hard to displace them.  But there are always some spots that open up because of turnover.  Kids on the Madlax HS teams seem to leave for other clubs like Crabs, VLC and Blackwolf so every team has some turnover, and some have a lot of turnover.

Like most clubs, it usually is a bad experience being on the Blue or B team.  Your son's best bet is to find a way to make an A team for a different club instead.  If your son was in the youth program, maybe it would make sense to be willing to wait 1-2 years to move up to A.  But if your son is in HS, the clock is ticking and you don't have that luxury.

It's almost always better to be on a club's A team than a club's B team (even if that club is a "better" club).[/quote]

This sounds like sound advice.  But many B team players at Madlax seem to stick it out rather than moving to an A team elsewhere.  [/quote]

That's true.  Very few of the Madlax Blue kids would make an A team for a top club.  Most of those Blue kids are not thinking seriously about playing lacrosse at the next level and just want to have fun.  If that's your expectation, it may make sense to stick with it.  But if being recruited is important to you and/or you want to play top competition, playing for a B team is a bad idea.

If you are looking to play with strong teammates, play great teams or want the attention of Madlax, you should not play for their B team.[/quote]

Can someone back this one way or the other with stats?  How have the Blue team members done college recruiting wise?  The lore is that Madlax is so deep that even its B team players end up getting recruited.[/quote]

Lore?  LOL.

Yes, some kids on a B team play college lacrosse.  That goes for Madlax or any number of other clubs.  But if you are talking about Madlax specifically, those B kids are going D2 or D3.  That is perfectly fine for many kids/families.  But please don't get the wrong idea - college coaches are not beating down the door to get B team kids.[/quote]

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