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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is very true - as a PP mentioned in any given year maybe 6 of the Orange girls could get switched with 6 of the Blue with no appreciable change in the level of play on either team.  Politics, maybe, personal preference on playing style, maybe, but whatever the reason the dynamic exists.  In my daughters year there were  about 8 girls from the Orange team who went D1 and about 7 who went D3 (not the same as Blue but stacks up against any other club in the area).  You can make it to D1 from either team but don't rely on the recruiting director of any club to do all the work for you.  They may have some connections, but your daughters need to attend camps, reach out to the coaches, send film etc.  As for the comment about showing better at VA Metro or Pride if you are a stronger B player, I'm not sure that's true either.  You can get to your goal in either scenario, just depends on what you want.  You will get to bigger tournaments with stronger teams if you play for Capital, which is helpful, but in any given age group you need to consider the coaching at the clubs you are considering as well as the girls you want to play with, cost, convenience of practices etc. - there is no one size fits all.  And in terms of the Private vs. Public, I think the one benefit of being at a private is the potential to have a very strong collection of talent on your team, and the flexibility to schedule some games against very strong out of area competition.  My daughter played at one of the top Privates in the area, and from her perspective she was much better prepared for  D1 college lacrosse than some of her teammates because of this dynamic.[/quote]

The reason this may be true about the top 6 orange v. the top 6 blue players is that we are not really talking about "great" players.  We are talking about good or above average players.  On a team like Capital Blue the game play, offense, defense, goalie play is dominated by the top players who are clearly better than the orange B team players.  The last six on any team don't really impact the outcome that much.  The problem is that these players are lost in the recruiting field.  The orange players that do go D1 often do so through prospect days, UA/AS or HS teams.  They are also later recruits who fill roster spots due to high GPA's.  These same players may do even better as feature players on a VA Metro.  I think the real issue is that Capital is not as transparent as they should be with players at tryouts about orange/blue teams.  [/quote]

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