Anonymous wrote:Cardinal had 2 Ivy League success stories with 2018 graduates Emily Marciano from Centreville and Kelsey Shea from PVI who got recruited by Brown. So Capital clearly isn’t the only Club team who can get players recruited by Ivy League schools.

Anecdotal evidence.

Cardinal had 2 Ivy League success stories with 2018 graduates Emily Marciano from Centreville and Kelsey Shea from PVI who got recruited by Brown. So Capital clearly isn’t the only Club team who can get players recruited by Ivy League schools.

Anonymous wrote:Capital is a tenured established club program. Just like every other club you have players & parents who either love or hate the program and find a new one. It’s all about finding the right fit whether it’s the talent on the team, coaches, culture, experience, etc. I’ve seen many success stories from all club teams in NOVA who had D1 players play on Capital, Cardinal, 3-D, SuperNova, VA Metro, Crash, etc. Do your research about the players experiences in the past for their feedback. End of the day if you are a great athlete you’ll get seen by college coaches at tournaments and camps regardless what club you play for. Stay humble and stop being Lax snobs!

You are wrong. It is not that easy to get recruited, especially not to the Ivy League or other top academic school where Capital’s recruiting machine works particularly well. In this area, that is what most parents want for their kids, especially the private school crowd that makes up a large contingent at Capital. Folks in our area want their DD using lax to get in to an Ivy or Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Hopkins, Georgetown, Duke or maybe one of the Mini Ivies if they prefer D3. Is not easy to get recruited at those schools if your club or hs coach doesn’t have connections. Capital is the only DC area club that regularly gets girls recruited by those schools.

Capital is a tenured established club program. Just like every other club you have players & parents who either love or hate the program and find a new one. It’s all about finding the right fit whether it’s the talent on the team, coaches, culture, experience, etc. I’ve seen many success stories from all club teams in NOVA who had D1 players play on Capital, Cardinal, 3-D, SuperNova, VA Metro, Crash, etc. Do your research about the players experiences in the past for their feedback. End of the day if you are a great athlete you’ll get seen by college coaches at tournaments and camps regardless what club you play for. Stay humble and stop being Lax snobs!

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Anonymous wrote:The only truly great girls teams in Baltimore, year in and year out, are M&D black and Skywalkers blue. TLC red is good but not at the same level. As a PP states, Hero's isnt a Balitmore-centric team (its more upper MoCo and Howard County) but Hero's green is closer than TLC or any other Baltimore team to being the equal of M&D and Skywalkers.

m and D yes. Skywalkers, no. And with Chris Robinson leavimg for Florida, who knows? M and D will no longer be the McDonough pipeline.

Agree that CR leaving McDonogh and moving to FL will impact M&Ds dominance. It likely won’t be the same club in 5 years. It’s Probably going to be overrrun by crazy parent coaches like the two who coach the 2022 Black team.

Anonymous wrote:Why were 4 or so posts deleted from this thread?

My money is on someone at the new club not liking them.

Anonymous wrote:The only truly great girls teams in Baltimore, year in and year out, are M&D black and Skywalkers blue. TLC red is good but not at the same level. As a PP states, Hero's isnt a Balitmore-centric team (its more upper MoCo and Howard County) but Hero's green is closer than TLC or any other Baltimore team to being the equal of M&D and Skywalkers.

m and D yes. Skywalkers, no. And with Chris Robinson leavimg for Florida, who knows? M and D will no longer be the McDonough pipeline.

Why were 4 or so posts deleted from this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:PP can you back that up in any way?

Dp, but just look at the college committmemts on their web sites. Every club publishes them.

Right.

The only truly great girls teams in Baltimore, year in and year out, are M&D black and Skywalkers blue. TLC red is good but not at the same level. As a PP states, Hero's isnt a Balitmore-centric team (its more upper MoCo and Howard County) but Hero's green is closer than TLC or any other Baltimore team to being the equal of M&D and Skywalkers.

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Anonymous wrote:There are very few dc area players on M&D and Skywalkers, they really shouldn’t be factored into the equation.

Mostly true except that there are a few every year who do make the trek to Baltimore for those teams. Plus every once in a while a dissatisfied Capital player, who maybe got screwed over in placement, will move to Skywalkers. I can think of 3 girls who have done this in the past few years.

Skywalkers posts home towns and high schools with its roster info on its web site, maybe one dc area girl per team. M and D currently draws almost all its girls from Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, and Harford county. Of there are less than 5 dc area girls fron the dmv playing on Baltimore area teams, it must isn’t going to have much of an effect on the dmv clubs.

Not hardly true at all. I personally know including my DD over 30 girls from DC and Montgomery County on just Heros and M&D alone. This includes ages from 2026 all the way up to 2019. This is not including teams like Skywalkers and TLC which also have girls from the Metro DC area.

Hereos is not a Baltimore team and hasn’t been mentioned. I live in Baltimore, my daughter and her cousins play for one of the clubs you mentioned, and know the others well from Baltimore high school lacrosse scene. There are almost no girls from dmv on these teams, especially among the younger high school classs. May have been a common phenomenon in the past, but not any longer.

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Anonymous wrote:There are very few dc area players on M&D and Skywalkers, they really shouldn’t be factored into the equation.

Mostly true except that there are a few every year who do make the trek to Baltimore for those teams. Plus every once in a while a dissatisfied Capital player, who maybe got screwed over in placement, will move to Skywalkers. I can think of 3 girls who have done this in the past few years.

Skywalkers posts home towns and high schools with its roster info on its web site, maybe one dc area girl per team. M and D currently draws almost all its girls from Baltimore, Howard, Carroll, and Harford county. Of there are less than 5 dc area girls fron the dmv playing on Baltimore area teams, it must isn’t going to have much of an effect on the dmv clubs.

Not hardly true at all. I personally know including my DD over 30 girls from DC and Montgomery County on just Heros and M&D alone. This includes ages from 2026 all the way up to 2019. This is not including teams like Skywalkers and TLC which also have girls from the Metro DC area.

Anonymous wrote:PP can you back that up in any way?

Dp, but just look at the college committmemts on their web sites. Every club publishes them.

PP can you back that up in any way?

Anonymous wrote:No, your own club has already assessed that you are not strong enough to be on the top team. Colleges will consider this too so in my opinion (2 daughters who have a played on top college teams at strong academic institutions) you are better off playing on MC Elite or Cardinal if you can’t make Capital A if the goal is to play college lacrosse.

This is wrong. Capital Orange players get recruited at higher numbers than the A teams for MC Elite or Cardinal. Capital has a better reputation and a highly efficient recruiting machine. They know what they are doing and do it best. And coaches know that Capital Orange players are also really good players.