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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vitriol is right, wow!

I am happy to share my experience with northern Virginia lacrosse and hope it helps someone.

First, no program is perfect.  I am not perfect as a coach or as a person.  And frankly their are toxic parents too.

I have two daughters who have played Dulles South Lacrosse, rec league in Ashburn/Brambleton area.

My 2025 daughter has played 2 years at a developing program in Loudoun at the time.  She learned a lot and made great friends.  And to be transparent I and a friend of mine coached the team and it was a 25/26 blend at the time.

My 25 daughter then tried out for some of the more established programs and chose one out of Alexandria.  I paid for what I hoped to be excellent coaching.  A couple of college graduated lacrosse players were the coaches.  New in to the job market and the traffic we all know and love makes it difficult logistically.  So they were unable to consistently coach, get to know the girls and improve them as a team, much less focus on individual player improvement.  Since I was there as the Dad volunteer, I was asked to head coach the team their 6th grade year.  I am so proud of the girls on that team and we improved as a team and they did as individuals too.

My 25 was at the same program for 7th grade and I was a dad but also coached the other team that needed help coaching.  My daughter did not advance nor develop and after that year we decided to go to a program after we worked with the Director M-W-F during last March thru May.  The Director, Liz Case worked with the 4 girls she trained who improved significantly.

So we decided to continue to work with this Director and move to her program called the Rattlers and are now the Mid-Atlantic Yellow Jackets.  My 2025 and 2027 play with a really great bunch of girls and look forward to continuing as Yellow Jackets.  My 2025 has improved more as a player in 8 months with Liza and other great coaches then she did with her previous program in 2 years.

The YJs investment in our girls is second to none.

My 2027 has recently returned to lacrosse and just had a blast at the Summer Genesis tournament.  Great kids and positive parents.

The grass is not always greener.  Children develop on their timeline and as much as they are willing to work (on the rebounder outside of practice).

Both of my daughter enjoy playing, they are seeing improvement and success and the are having fun.  I am so proud of them!

Yellow Jacket tryouts are 7/14/2021 click link below to learn about some exciting special guests from the National Champions who will be running a clinic between the tryout sessions.

The website to learn more:  https://www.yjmidatlantic.com

Coach Mike Conner

P.S. - I would be happy to have a conversation if anyone would like to learn more.[/quote]

All I can say is, are you serious? So the current director of the DC YJs club and you, a coach of the DC YJs, assembled during the most strict lockdowns against CDC guidance and local health department mandates?
At that time frame, nobody fully understood what was going on, and this is the decision making you and this club made?

Please do tell me more about how socially responsible the leadership and coaching staff are. Also, please tell me more about how DC YJs could have the best interest of the players?

Be better humans and stop making selfish decisions for money and your egos! It is just a game, people! I bet you are a bunch of QAnon followers pulling crap like that![/quote]

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