To clarify none of this applies to the Orange B
Teams.

Not true - Orange has equal playing time as well and as a result the kids that are good enough to play in college get recruited - probably about 60-70% of the team in an average year

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax.

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.

CLC 23s did very well for sure but are they an anomaly due to covid when coaches couldn’t watch games? An interesting issue to watch.

Covid impacted the 22s. For the 23s, college coaches were able to sit sideline for the entire summer tournament season leading up to the opening of the Sept. 1 recruiting window.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax.

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.

CLC 23s did very well for sure but are they an anomaly due to covid when coaches couldn’t watch games? An interesting issue to watch.

To clarify none of this applies to the Orange B
Teams.

Anonymous wrote:Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Their downfall may be the recent addition of multiple kids to their teams with questionable skills for political reasons.

Can you share more? Girls were recently added outside of the tryout cycle? How many/what teams?

Anonymous wrote:If Capital Orange is ranked lower than Pride Black wouldn't/should you play for the better ranked team from a recruiting perspective?

not necessarily. The rankings r nice bragging rights, but does not equate to automatic recruiting success.

Anonymous wrote:Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax.

LI Yellow Jackets. 7
Capital 25 Blue 6

I guess so...

If Capital Orange is ranked lower than Pride Black wouldn't/should you play for the better ranked team from a recruiting perspective?

Their downfall may be the recent addition of multiple kids to their teams with questionable skills for political reasons.

Is Capital fading? Except for the 24 Blue team, they had a rough weekend at Live Love Lax.

Agreed with pp, that VA Metro is a joke. That's why every kid in NOVA is dying to go to VAM.

Anonymous wrote:VA Metro is a sad club that is sinking fast, wouldn't even mention them in this thread or consider going there unless they want no communication from the owners, fun fun all the time and no teaching of lax, no recruiting, etc... They are better off being sold at this point than limping along

17 2023 college commits beg to differ. Nice try though.

VA Metro is a sad club that is sinking fast, wouldn't even mention them in this thread or consider going there unless they want no communication from the owners, fun fun all the time and no teaching of lax, no recruiting, etc... They are better off being sold at this point than limping along

Anonymous wrote:This is very true - as a PP mentioned in any given year maybe 6 of the Orange girls could get switched with 6 of the Blue with no appreciable change in the level of play on either team. Politics, maybe, personal preference on playing style, maybe, but whatever the reason the dynamic exists. In my daughters year there were about 8 girls from the Orange team who went D1 and about 7 who went D3 (not the same as Blue but stacks up against any other club in the area). You can make it to D1 from either team but don't rely on the recruiting director of any club to do all the work for you. They may have some connections, but your daughters need to attend camps, reach out to the coaches, send film etc. As for the comment about showing better at VA Metro or Pride if you are a stronger B player, I'm not sure that's true either. You can get to your goal in either scenario, just depends on what you want. You will get to bigger tournaments with stronger teams if you play for Capital, which is helpful, but in any given age group you need to consider the coaching at the clubs you are considering as well as the girls you want to play with, cost, convenience of practices etc. - there is no one size fits all. And in terms of the Private vs. Public, I think the one benefit of being at a private is the potential to have a very strong collection of talent on your team, and the flexibility to schedule some games against very strong out of area competition. My daughter played at one of the top Privates in the area, and from her perspective she was much better prepared for D1 college lacrosse than some of her teammates because of this dynamic.

The reason this may be true about the top 6 orange v. the top 6 blue players is that we are not really talking about "great" players. We are talking about good or above average players. On a team like Capital Blue the game play, offense, defense, goalie play is dominated by the top players who are clearly better than the orange B team players. The last six on any team don't really impact the outcome that much. The problem is that these players are lost in the recruiting field. The orange players that do go D1 often do so through prospect days, UA/AS or HS teams. They are also later recruits who fill roster spots due to high GPA's. These same players may do even better as feature players on a VA Metro. I think the real issue is that Capital is not as transparent as they should be with players at tryouts about orange/blue teams.