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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been told next level will be adding one high school team per year moving forward.

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May be too little, too late.  Madlax is creating Maryland based teams this year.  I wish NL had gone the high school route earlier.  Performance is also showing signs of being competitive at the HS level.  Will be a battle for talent, and I think in the,end there will only be one team standing.[/quote]

Which Performance Team is competitive?

Also Performance is $3800/yr. so only kids desperate for a team or extremely wealthy will play for them.[/quote]

Performance is run by great guys who played lacrosse at the highest levels.  They also have a stable of excellent coaches, including a few big names in the local high school scene. They also tapped into the MoCo talent pool, many from the public schools.  With all these things going for them, you'd think they'd be real contenders.  Unfortunately, that does not seem to be their focus, and it can be demoralizing for the kids and their families to get  regularly crushed by their opponents.  To make matters worse, every year the small handful of stars are picked off by one of the VA club teams.  Not at all affiliated with Next Level, but I do hope they succeed.  It is embarrassing that  living  in MD, the lax hotbed, the best area club teams are all in VA.[/quote]

Quick education for you

1. The owners of Performance are great guys, but you have to have talent.  Nearly all of the kids on their teams could not make the rosters of the best clubs in this area.  So the lack of field success thus far is not a lack of focus from the top, but rather a lack of talent on the team.

2.  The hotbed of talent in the DMV in Northern VA by far, so it's not a surprise that teams like Blackwolf, Madlax and VLC are at the top.  Montgomery County is not Baltimore or Annapolis and has never been a hotbed.

3.  You are right that Performance taps into the Montgomery County public school base, which has largely been untapped.  But the talent in the Montgomery County public school pool is very shallow.[/quote]

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