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[quote=Anonymous][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]

As someone who has been through the process before, I can tell you that performance in club showcases matter much much less than most people think and performance at prospect days, showcases, combine etc matter much more.

For 24s, at this point in the recruiting calendar most top 25 and Ivy coaches have their list of prospects down to 60-90 girls.   They will end up recruiting about 30 of them.   Coaches are going to see specific girls.   Obiously, there is a chance a girl not on the list could make a impact, but they would need to have a monster game.

For non-top 25 coaches, they are casting a wider net and waiting to see who falls through the cracks in September.

Though noone says it,  getting good film in the summer after freshman year and fall of sophomore year is more important than these performances.  College coaches have already talked to club directors about who they are recruiting, who may have interest in their school and who can academically quality.

In-person performance will matter much more to smaller schools and D3 who may not have prospect days or get top players to attend.

** And if you are a goalie, draw specialist or low defender, these games are almost entirely meaningless.  You aren't getting a D1 offer unless you have played in front of the coach at a camp or his/her prospect days.  
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