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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better. [/quote]

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program. [/quote]

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning. [/quote]

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids. [/quote]

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

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Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.[/quote]

Agreed. The kids from wealthier families and communities are much more likely to play lacrosse and start an an early age.  Often their parents played, so they get "coaching"/encouragement at home + have more resources to devote to camps and other development that occurs outside club play. Pride is most convenient for the wealthiest NoVA suburbs and is also more convenient for any MoCo kids who cross state lines.  There are obviously wealthy pockets in the southern burbs too, but not like the northwest.

Pride and Stars aren't that different on development (e.g. Stars also has 2x weekly speed and agility training, separate from what occurs during practices).  Coaching with both can be hit or miss.  Both need to up their development game to compete with big-name Maryland teams.[/quote]

I can only speak to Pride, but that team significantly closed the gap on the big-name Maryland teams over the years.  The only top MD club on a parallel path was Hero's, with every other MD club getting relatively worse over time.  I think Pride 2028's development was fine, if not great.  [/quote]

Except for the fact that they avoided playing the top teams all summer so you never got a true barometer. [/quote]

Well they did beat #3 Eagle Stix in their last tournament, and ended up beating #10 Aces in the championship game the same day.  They would have welcomed the opportunity to play any of the other "top" teams, but sadly those teams did not do as well as Pride that tournament.[/quote]

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