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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me about Performance Lacrosse in DC at the high school level.  Good program?  Good tournaments?  Recruitment?

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No.  Great guys who run the program, but the talent pool for that club is very shallow.  Correspondingly, they get very little recruiting attention because the talent is thin and the teams don't do very well.

In this area, Blackwolf and VLC have the two best HS programs in terms of kids going to play college lacrosse.[/quote]

Are the HS teams for VLC set by Freshmen year (i.e., once you make it, you usually stay).  Or is there constant turnover (i.e., you have to tryout every year, and there is little guarantee of making it on year in and year out).[/quote]

VLC is run by the Baltimore Crabs, so they use the same methods.  They have annual tryouts, except for the Rising Juniors.  Like the Crabs, once you make the Rising Sophomore team, you are set (although it looks like they are having 2016 tryouts this fall).  That means there are probably only a couple spots open on that team.  For the most part, once you make a HS team for the Crabs or VLC, those rosters typically don't change that much.

Like the Crabs, the most volatility happens with the younger teams as they try to find the best guys.  Considering the recruiting success both clubs have had, it seems like it is working.

A club like Madlax has much more volatility because they field a lot of teams per grade.  So when kids leave for other programs, they are constantly bringing kids up from the B teams, etc.[/quote]

My son played VLC U-15 and will be trying out for the high school rising freshman team.  Can he expect a leg up on non-VLC boys trying out for the team? Or is it a clean slate for all?[/quote]

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