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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren’t the Pride 28’s ranked #14 in the country? That isn’t average. [/quote]

I probably would not hang my hat on a fall ranking, but point taken.  Recent competitive play against top teams puts them in a tier well above average.  Prior Pride teams have followed the same model, slowly improving over the years and peaking in 8th grade before being decimated by a Capital exodus.  [/quote]

Many Pride 25s, 26s and 27s left for Capital because they saw the 23s and 24s (who elected to stay together at Pride HS) generate underwhelming recruiting results. 24s were already in the Pride pipeline by the time the window opened for the 23s, but the 25s saw what happened to the 23s in real time and led the Capital exodus that’s happened since.   
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This is exactly what happened. I feel bad for the 2023 families who made the commitment to stay with Pride that year and help KM launch her HS program. Some bad luck with the club’s recruiting director leaving at a key time to take a head coaching job at American, coupled with a really bad replacement hire. Without the recruiting history of Capital and really no direction provided to those families on how to work the recruiting process it took longer than it should have for talent on that team to commit. That 2023 team was loaded, had some of the best talent in that class, and was very competitive in the highest brackets. I believe the team had 3-4 High School Players of the Year on it from various private and public school programs and many All Mets. The way KM handled that class killed the future of her high school program.[/quote]

A common theme I've heard amongst middle school parents with regards to clubs and recruiting is that just being on a top team and playing in the top brackets at the right tournaments is all you have to worry about from your club (not whether there is recruiting history or an experienced recruiting director). But what you're describing here about the Pride 2023s seems to prove otherwise?[/quote]

You need them both. Capital and its former players have a history with college coaches, which helps open the recruiting conversation for future club players. Capital also helps guide families through a process they have been through many times. And is really good at it.

If your DD wants to play at the highest level in college, coaches will want to see them play against the best competition, so playing in the top brackets is important. Those high school years both Pride and Capital played top 5 schedules. And it definitely helped get players noticed, but I don’t think Pride had the connections or processes in place to execute and take advantage of playing at this high level.

Pride had some great talent that year, but families could not have anticipated Lindsey Teeters leaving for American and KM having no connections to open doors. Add to this the club had no former players to mentor players through the recruiting process. This slowed recruiting for some very talented players. That team’s top players did land at good programs, but the lack of support was also frustrating for others who simply gave up on playing.

All of this set the tone for how future classes view Pride. A big miss on KMs part, but I suspect she is just fine collecting a lot of checks from her elementary and MS parents and serving as a feeder for Capital. It’s a business for her and not about college commitments.[/quote]

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