Anonymous wrote:Which are the DMV players choosing this year, AS or AA?

Looks like the heros, coppermine, skywalkers girls opted for AA this year in the Balto area

Which are the DMV players choosing this year, AS or AA?

So what is the important of freshmen year? Getting on the right club? Can you not do that for sophomore year? Good players should be able to find a home. If you can’t you need to have an honest evaluation.

Anonymous wrote:What local HS's will get the most talent from the 2030 class next year?

What HS's are reloading next year?

Anonymous wrote:So is the Sophomore year the most important year in terms of recruiting? I thought D1 coaches could not "talk" with the kid until the summer of their rising JR year? EG: You need to get on their radar and be communicating with them in Sophomore year in order for them to fully recruit you JR year.

Coaches are prohibited from directly contacting players until September 1 of their junior year. Prior to this date, communication is largely one-way from players to coaches. Beginning in the fall of sophomore year, coaches start to attend club games and express interest indirectly through the club director, often encouraging players to participate in camps. During this period, players actively send emails and attend camps to convey back their interest. This little dance continues throughout the summer, culminating on September 1 when players learn whether their efforts have paid off. Communications and camp attendance by players before the fall of sophomore year are generally ineffective, as coaches are not focused on that age group at that time.

Anonymous wrote:So is the Sophomore year the most important year in terms of recruiting? I thought D1 coaches could not "talk" with the kid until the summer of their rising JR year? EG: You need to get on their radar and be communicating with them in Sophomore year in order for them to fully recruit you JR year.

Correct, summer after soph year is the final evaluation period.

So is the Sophomore year the most important year in terms of recruiting? I thought D1 coaches could not "talk" with the kid until the summer of their rising JR year? EG: You need to get on their radar and be communicating with them in Sophomore year in order for them to fully recruit you JR year.

When I say it ended rec lax, I don’t mean completely, but in its spirit of girls picking up lax for 3 months at a time and all learning the game. Must rec teams and mix of mostly club kids and a few that do lax 1/4 of the year.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter did private middle school lacrosse, NVYLL rec, and NGLL. It was too much. Do not recommend that you attempt that, but you can certainly pull off 2 out of the 3.

I assume ms lacrosse games are during the week, so you can do that with one of the other two. But NYVLL and NGLL just conflict way too much in terms of time and location.

My daughter did private middle school lacrosse, NVYLL rec, and NGLL. It was too much. Do not recommend that you attempt that, but you can certainly pull off 2 out of the 3.

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Anonymous wrote:No idea how NGLL can be considered net negative. Unless your kid is not playing. If that's the case then you need to be honest in your evaluations. Does her skill level match the teams? If coaching is the problem, that's not a problem with NGLL, but the team itself.

NGLL has its issues, and it ended rec lax, but this is so much better than a decade ago! The kids are so much more advanced

has definitely ended rec lax for us. i wish we could do both, but we can't

Anonymous wrote:No idea how NGLL can be considered net negative. Unless your kid is not playing. If that's the case then you need to be honest in your evaluations. Does her skill level match the teams? If coaching is the problem, that's not a problem with NGLL, but the team itself.

NGLL has its issues, and it ended rec lax, but this is so much better than a decade ago! The kids are so much more advanced

No idea how NGLL can be considered net negative. Unless your kid is not playing. If that's the case then you need to be honest in your evaluations. Does her skill level match the teams? If coaching is the problem, that's not a problem with NGLL, but the team itself.

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Anonymous wrote:I remember being the parent of and 8th grader and thinking NGLL was important (and "serious"). Fun times. (At least we had predictions and debates about scores and relative strength.)

Three things are important at this point, having done this a couple of times. One, individual development of the player. Two, team development so you can play well in 9th grade to get a ranking that puts you in brackets that coaches watch in 10th grade and the recruiting summer. And three, getting into some of the important showcases so they invite you back in your recruiting year (don't listen to people who say Best in Class or Juniors Open doesn't matter until rising Junior summer; it does if you want an invite then.)

As an 8th grade parent, I can now look back and say NGLL has been a net negative. It’s Not all negative but it’s not set up to provide the best outcome for the players. It could be modified to have more productive outcomes but it clearly exists to generate revenue for the girls lacrosse industry under the guise of development.

I was the prior poster noting that NGLL wasn't that "important and serious". But a "net negative" might be too far a pendulum swing the other way. Good opportunity to practice and play with your club against some of the best teams in the country. Not "development" per se, but practice. Good measuring stick. Shows where you need to improve individually and collectively. And my daughter had a lot of fun with it. It was much better that private middle school or rec league lacrosse (and even those weren't "net negatives").

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Anonymous wrote:I remember being the parent of and 8th grader and thinking NGLL was important (and "serious"). Fun times. (At least we had predictions and debates about scores and relative strength.)

Three things are important at this point, having done this a couple of times. One, individual development of the player. Two, team development so you can play well in 9th grade to get a ranking that puts you in brackets that coaches watch in 10th grade and the recruiting summer. And three, getting into some of the important showcases so they invite you back in your recruiting year (don't listen to people who say Best in Class or Juniors Open doesn't matter until rising Junior summer; it does if you want an invite then.)

As an 8th grade parent, I can now look back and say NGLL has been a net negative. It’s Not all negative but it’s not set up to provide the best outcome for the players. It could be modified to have more productive outcomes but it clearly exists to generate revenue for the girls lacrosse industry under the guise of development.

I think the only thing making it not as good as it can be is too many non-competitive teams in top division. Take the top ranked 9 teams and they all play each other once and you’d have something worth while.