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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've seen Yorktown play.  Good public school team.  Favorites to win 6A in VA.  They would lose to every team behind them in the top 10 and 2 of the also considered.  WaPo doesn't know much about girls lacrosse.[/quote]

There is some weird connection between the WP girls lax writer and the Yorktown Coach. He writes about them and favors them every year in polls despite them not being anywhere close to the privates. Last year he wrote an article about the fact Jenny had knee surgery and how that impacted the team? Weird. They are no where near the talent in the privates and they shouldn't be on the list at all. WPO does not know lacrosse at all.[/quote]

Creepy for one. And gross lack of journalist integrity for two. In this day and age of media skepticism you’d think someone at WAPO would just say no. [/quote]

He's a retiree who posts his rankings on a message board. His kids played lax and he likes to stay connected by watching good games.

I think you are a jerk did writing that.  [/quote]

I think you crossed your wires a bit.  The WaPo byline and the rankings posted in the digital version of the paper have a young reporter's byline. (Maybe you didn't look behind the paywall). Says he's a Field Hockey reporter.  Would make sense for him to work the beat a bit and probably fair to provide feedback.  Was an intern for the Globe in 2023 apparently.

I don't believe anyone criticized a retiree who posts on message boards.  I wouldn't associate myself with the "creepy" comment or "journalistic integrity" comments in any case; those were clearly off key.

More likely the young reporter looked at past articles, asked for a connection to the best private and public programs and ended up connecting with SSSA and Yorktown (guessing there are some reporters who live in Alexandria and Arlington).  Not crazy, just not a well-reported and informed perspective applied to this year.  Let's give the kid the benefit of the doubt and comment on the paper's site to encourage a broader review for the final season's rankings.[/quote]

Oh bod does this explain a lot. As I was reading this thread, I was thinking it was funny because the Yorktown field hockey team always gets a lot of attention for being strong in the public leagues, but would get crushed by a few of the local privates. And just like the grade inflation, all the accolodes the publics get in WaPo and all the different league honors helps get them recruited over the private school players, too. So there is an issue with the favoritism given to Yorktown.[/quote]

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