Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

Why hint at it? Just say what you saw and heard…

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

There is no drama. The team will add 1 or 2, maybe 3 standout players like most m&d teams do and they will continue to be amazing. Unless girls leave, there isn’t going to be massive turnover on that team.

Wrong. My sister‘s daughter is on that team and attends SPSG (as does my own DD), which is why my daughter got the invite to attend. I was already well aware of backstage team stuff but to see things play out for myself in real time, and hear that others saw all that I was seeing, was definitely unexpected. Lastly, if you were there as I was, and don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must’ve had your head in the sand for the entire practice.

I think there’s high level drama on all of these teams when you approach and especially are at this critical year. As someone whose daughter is younger and there’s drama there too approaching tryout time, it just gets exponentially worse and ends up tapping into the worst tendencies of parents (and sometimes kids too). It’s with all the top teams where insiders have so much to lose and outsiders have so much to gain. Then also with lesser teams because the drama around who is abandoning ship and paranoia around not being only ones left on a drastically weakened team.

Spill it. This is what this board is for...juicy gossip.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

There is no drama. The team will add 1 or 2, maybe 3 standout players like most m&d teams do and they will continue to be amazing. Unless girls leave, there isn’t going to be massive turnover on that team.

Wrong. My sister‘s daughter is on that team and attends SPSG (as does my own DD), which is why my daughter got the invite to attend. I was already well aware of backstage team stuff but to see things play out for myself in real time, and hear that others saw all that I was seeing, was definitely unexpected. Lastly, if you were there as I was, and don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must’ve had your head in the sand for the entire practice.

Can you spell it out for the rest of us, what happened?


Also some advice, don’t be the + one, that is to say, the teammate of the player that the club really wants and is forced to take your kid so the star player has a car pool buddy or built in friend.

It typically does not work out.

Agreed. Can someone enlighten the rest of us re what happened?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

There is no drama. The team will add 1 or 2, maybe 3 standout players like most m&d teams do and they will continue to be amazing. Unless girls leave, there isn’t going to be massive turnover on that team.

Wrong. My sister‘s daughter is on that team and attends SPSG (as does my own DD), which is why my daughter got the invite to attend. I was already well aware of backstage team stuff but to see things play out for myself in real time, and hear that others saw all that I was seeing, was definitely unexpected. Lastly, if you were there as I was, and don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must’ve had your head in the sand for the entire practice.

Omg, you’re just talking about the crazy parents saying insane stuff on the sidelines to each other??? Haha, that is pretty typical with elite teams, nothing to clutch pearls over. I thought you were talking about player and roster drama.

Anonymous wrote:MnD’s success speaks far more than any of the gossip on this site.

Agreed. Not an M&D parent, but be honest..parents are crazy everywhere. That’s not news.

MnD’s success speaks far more than any of the gossip on this site.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

There is no drama. The team will add 1 or 2, maybe 3 standout players like most m&d teams do and they will continue to be amazing. Unless girls leave, there isn’t going to be massive turnover on that team.

Wrong. My sister‘s daughter is on that team and attends SPSG (as does my own DD), which is why my daughter got the invite to attend. I was already well aware of backstage team stuff but to see things play out for myself in real time, and hear that others saw all that I was seeing, was definitely unexpected. Lastly, if you were there as I was, and don’t know what I’m talking about, then you must’ve had your head in the sand for the entire practice.

Can you spell it out for the rest of us, what happened?


Also some advice, don’t be the + one, that is to say, the teammate of the player that the club really wants and is forced to take your kid so the star player has a car pool buddy or built in friend.

It typically does not work out.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was at the open practice that 30 Black held this week (with my DD) and eavesdropped on multiple conversations amongst current team parents and desperately want-to-be-team parents like myself. There was major drama surrounding that practice. I must say that I was quite surprised that M&D as an organization and 2030 Black as a team would have such (reasonably out in the open) messiness going on for prospectives to hear about and witness. The next few weeks before July tryouts are going to be quite interesting, to say the least 😬🫣

There is no drama. The team will add 1 or 2, maybe 3 standout players like most m&d teams do and they will continue to be amazing. Unless girls leave, there isn’t going to be massive turnover on that team.

I’m not sure the poster mentioned anything about the team not adding girls or not continuing to be amazing. Perhaps I read the post incorrectly 🤷🏻‍♂️