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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax. [/quote]

Capital had a great weekend at LLL. Marginal goal differentials with top national clubs across the board. More competitive than other DC programs against higher-ranked teams.

Your relationship with a Capital competitor is clear from your comment. For those who aren’t familiar with club lacrosse, and are genuinely interested in how Capital operates, I’ll try to explain.

The club season is about recruiting (this isn’t HS).  Being competitive is what matters. Not winning.

Capital is successful at recruiting because the program (unlike most clubs) implements an equal-playing-time rule — and still shows it can hang with the best teams in the nation.

Equal playing time gives more kids more game minutes to show their stuff to coaches. More game minutes for each player means more opportunities to get more players recruited.

Equal playing time doesn’t prioritize winning. It prioritizes recruiting.

Other clubs don’t do this. They keep the best players on the field (and bench those who may not be quite as strong) to try and win. They think this will attract more coaches to the sidelines.

But this only helps a handful of top players — not the team — get recruited. (Translation: it’s hard to get recruited when you’re rarely on the field).

College coaches recruit individual players, of course — not entire teams. Any coach will tell you a team club win doesn’t matter to them. They care about how the girls play, compete and perform against the best teams when they hit the field.

Parents need to accept the equal playing rotation at Capital if their girls are strong enough to make the cut. The most competitive kids want to be on the field when close games are on the line. But Capital’s philo helps the team maximize recruiting success, which is what it’s all about.

There’s a method to Capital’s approach and it seems to be working. The vast majority of 23s are committed to some great D1 schools. It’s why Capital continues to be the most dominant DC-area girls lax club that sends the most kids to the best colleges in the country.[/quote]

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