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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange.

I am glad HB came to Alexandria. There are few options for training anywhere else close by. Drive to Rockville? No thanks. Track down private lessons at random private outdoor locations - if you can find them? Done that and it is difficult and even more expensive.

HB staff is highly qualified. It can be expensive but can also be reasonable if you form groups, which they encourage or will try to get you in one.

With regard to Capital, it’s a good program and my kid was not a top prospect. HB made her better. You are trying to make a direct connection to people who pay a lot of money for lessons. You are missing something - kids who train a lot are showing commitment to train and improve outside of school and program - and that’s part of what they are looking for because that is what it takes to be a top recruit. That’s what players will have to do in college. And recruiting is their goal. Kids who train are, not surprisingly, better players and athletes. There are kids who don’t have the budget or aren’t near HB but make training happen other ways and still make Capital.

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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange.

Capital was a great experience for us and we do not mind paying for training and conditioning. If they weren't doing it at HB they would need to do somewhere. Staff is great, easy parking and convenient location. I have a highly skilled player so all of it worked really really well for her. We loved Capital and all the other training options offered but again my kid was top player and did well in the environment- loved coaches, trainers and all the Cap & HB STAFF. Remember people are trying to scare you away from this top program so their daughter has a spot. DO NOT Believe everything you read here. Results speak for themselves so always use that is a key point when deciding.

This is 100 percent true and was our experience too. Our kid made Blue will play at a school I could only dream of attending.

So many agendas at work here. Parents who want to make room for their kids, directors of competing clubs, scorned parents, delusional parents, one or two DMV parents who took their kid to MD and want to poison the well, and certain upper MoCo high school coaches who hate Capital’s success and want maintain their pipeline to Baltimore clubs. The really funny thing is that these posters think they’re having impact when no one - ever - has been influenced by the opinions in this forum.

You are a rare one. Most who have gone through this say never again, not worth it. Very small percentage got into decent D1 programs- most did not.

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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange.

Capital was a great experience for us and we do not mind paying for training and conditioning. If they weren't doing it at HB they would need to do somewhere. Staff is great, easy parking and convenient location. I have a highly skilled player so all of it worked really really well for her. We loved Capital and all the other training options offered but again my kid was top player and did well in the environment- loved coaches, trainers and all the Cap & HB STAFF. Remember people are trying to scare you away from this top program so their daughter has a spot. DO NOT Believe everything you read here. Results speak for themselves so always use that is a key point when deciding.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in Virginia and don’t want to cross the river on a weekly, you are even more in pickle. Your choices are really Pride and Stars.

Seems like the Virginia choices will be Pride, YJ VA, and maybe Stars if they don’t collapse.

Isn’t it Pride that is collapsing, not Stars?

Pride 30 (both teams) completely collapsing. They are all headed to the other VA clubs (stars, 3d and YJ) next

Judging by the number of Pride 31 girls who keep coming to our open practices, I’d say Pride 31 is completely collapsing, too.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in Virginia and don’t want to cross the river on a weekly, you are even more in pickle. Your choices are really Pride and Stars.

Seems like the Virginia choices will be Pride, YJ VA, and maybe Stars if they don’t collapse.

Isn’t it Pride that is collapsing, not Stars?

Pride 30 (both teams) completely collapsing. They are all headed to the other VA clubs (stars, 3d and YJ) next

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Anonymous wrote:The days of Capital being the only real option are coming to an end.

We’re not even close to those days yet. Maybe 2-3 years from now

Funny. People said that last year because of M&D DC 2029 team. Now look.

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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange.

This is very concerning to hear. I have a younger daughter who’s looking at options and all I’ve been hearing is what a terrible experience this has been. Decent lacrosse but parents who were misled and gouged $$ and treated like second rate citizens who need to bow down as grown adults to a 30 year old whose parents bought them a lacrosse club and training facility.

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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Along the way during cap academy, after you’ve spent $1,500 and another ~$1,000 on the “optional” aka mandatory evaluation clinics and mini clinics, they’ll happily direct you to one of their Healthy Baller locations for a series of $50-125/hour sessions to ensure they properly monetize your future D1 superstar. The HB sessions are to be expected if you want to “earn” your spot on Capital. And for the girls to who aren’t selected as one of the 30 (many of whom are great players) to go through the cap academy “premier cash extraction experience”, they will continue to live in fear and walk on eggshells, hoping to have a chance at making Capital. If they kiss the ring enough and spend enough money they might earn a spot on orange.

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Anonymous wrote:YJ VA is essentially their B team as DMV is their top team at that age group. If you think you have a shot at Capital, not sure you would consider YJ VA

This is in response to players wanting to stay in VA. YJ DMV practices in MD.

I truly hope YJ DMV continues to be a competitive option in the DC area.

YJ will continue to be competitive for 2031 and younger. 2030 DMV will make it to next year.

A handful of very strong players are staying on the DMV2030. The team will continue to attract new players each year even if they lose some along the way. That's just what happens in high school.

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Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

Wrong. No other club is doing what they are doing.

Anonymous wrote:The days of Capital being the only real option are coming to an end.

We’re not even close to those days yet. Maybe 2-3 years from now

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Anonymous wrote:If you are in Virginia and don’t want to cross the river on a weekly, you are even more in pickle. Your choices are really Pride and Stars.

Seems like the Virginia choices will be Pride, YJ VA, and maybe Stars if they don’t collapse.

Isn’t it Pride that is collapsing, not Stars?

Laxbyatch wrote:How would you like to be one of the BLC families who spent $1,500 on the Crap Academy followed by over $1,000 in additional high pressure tactic evaluation clinics and a tryout just to be told your daughter didn’t make Capital blue or maybe has a spot on the B team Capital orange. Or neither. Pay what is close to annual club dues to potentially make a team? And a team that isn’t even that good? Wow the stories what are going around!! But hey the fear factor seams to work - gotta give that Crap lax CEO some props. He’s doing something right! Seems like a better option to just stay with a NoVa team and focus on your daughter being a good person. Crap academy seems to stand for one thing - cash grab and arrogance. Let’s bring some integrity back to NoVa / DMV lax.

They’re all a cash grab at this point. You must not be paying attention. CLC 2030 team will be good.

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Anonymous wrote:YJ VA is essentially their B team as DMV is their top team at that age group. If you think you have a shot at Capital, not sure you would consider YJ VA

This is in response to players wanting to stay in VA. YJ DMV practices in MD.

I truly hope YJ DMV continues to be a competitive option in the DC area.

YJ will continue to be competitive for 2031 and younger. 2030 DMV will make it to next year.