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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Laxbyatch]How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax. [/quote]

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.[/quote]

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.[/quote]

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange. [/quote]

I am glad HB came to Alexandria.  There are few options for training anywhere else close by. Drive to Rockville?  No thanks. Track down private lessons at random private outdoor locations - if you can find them? Done that and it is difficult and even more expensive.

HB staff is highly qualified.  It can be expensive but can also be reasonable if you form groups, which they encourage or will try to get you in one.

With regard to Capital, it’s a good program and my kid was not a top prospect. HB made her better. You are trying to make a direct connection to people who pay a lot of money for lessons. You are missing something - kids who train a lot are showing commitment to train and improve outside of school and program - and that’s part of what they are looking for because that is what it takes to be a top recruit.  That’s what players will have to do in college. And recruiting is their goal. Kids who train are, not surprisingly, better players and athletes. There are kids who don’t have the budget or aren’t near HB but make training happen other ways and still make Capital. [/quote]

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