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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have no idea how involved Capital’s RD is. Her contacts are not to be believed and she is engaged every step of the way throughout the player’s recruiting journey. She schedules individual meetings with each player at the start of the recruiting year to learn the player’s list of target schools and set expectations re: what each player is responsible for. She provides timeline and delivery calendars for each player re: emails to coaches to promote themselves and express interest. She provides intel from college coaches to help players decipher true interest vs performative interest. She sends real-time texts to players from the sidelines as she works coaches tents during recruiting-season games relaying interest from her longstanding coaching relationships. She calls coaches to market Cap players to her personal contacts to help distinguish them from the mountain of other talented players seeking their attention. Comparatively, other clubs have a team parent hand out player bio sheets to coaches in the tents - which is one of the most awkward / cringiest exchanges you’ll ever see as parents are not allowed to speak to coaches until 9.1 before junior year.  Anyone who says club RDs are overvalued has either never been thru the Capital process or never been the beneficiary of it. Mock it at your daughter’s peril if you turn down the opportunity to be a part of Cap’s proven system. [/quote]

Capital Parent here - - - this is not what we experienced but I would still as I have in the past give credit to the BRAND for what they did for my daughter. Not sure the RD did much for her at all - - I would still choose Capital 10 out of 10 times because college coaches know that the best girls in the area are all looking for a spot there. [/quote]

This is what I would expect.  Mostly the family doing the work to get a player recruited.  Using the brand of the club to market the player.  Capital has the brand but that can change in an instant.  This 29 tryout season will be very interesting.[/quote]

The brand reputation can certainly change in an instant, and with the game growing other teams in the Philly area are starting to get their club's recruiting reputation in much higher standing to compete with the "old guard". It won't be long before the Florida area is the same, and NC is also trying.

Capital has rested on its reputation for too long, and the trickle down effect is happening now. I feel bad for the 29s who have to choose, because they are the first team to actually have a choice.  In the past no other team could offer anything that could compete with capital's ability to get teams into the right tournaments, etc.  Pride, BLC, Cardinal, Stars, YJMA all tried but did not have the ability to get enough girls together to create a strong enough team to compete. So it was an easy choice for all of the girls to try out for capital once HS came around. Now, M&D DC has something that pride was able to put together before ( a successful middle school team capable of competing with most of the MD teams), AND it has something that pride did not have, an established HS club with a nation wide presence and reputation.)

So for the 1st time girls in the area have a choice, which is great. Hopefully that also raises the level of what capital is offering and gets them to refresh some things in their program.  This year is particularly tricky because 29 parents have seen the decline of the capital team talent in the past 2 years, but hasn't had the opportunity to see if that has an effect on recruiting. If the summer is as successful as the team hopes, keeping the team together and adding a few strong players seems to make more sense than risking what team is formed after 1 tryout for Capital. That is a bigger unknown that either capitals possible decline, or M&D DC playing 2nd fiddle to M&D Black.  [/quote]

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