Anonymous wrote:Going to pivot and ask an actual question…

Anyone have any info on the 2034 M&D DC teams for the 2026 - 2027 season?

Are they expecting many additional players at tryouts? Will the second team be a “B” team?

Any info is appreciated. We were with a different club this year and not happy. A ‘new’ team sounds interesting vs. joining an already established team

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Anonymous wrote:Godine was counted. Levy was not (an out of town fly in). Bit let’s include Levy, which puts M&D with six players over the past five years. Still dreadful.

Ok, thanks. Could you adjust all the other totals for all those teams and years where you made a personal decision not to include them, so we can see what the participation has been?

Well I think people would prefer the facts to win the day. So with that one correction (thank you) the stats are these — and still paint a very clear picture:

NW 2026
Skywalkers 3
M&D 0
Capital 1
Hero's 0

UNC 2025
Skywalkers 1
M&D 2
Capital 1
Hero's 0

BC 2024
Skywalkers 0
M&D 2
Capital 1
Hero's 0

NW 2023
Skywalkers 1
M&D 0
Capital 0
Hero's 0

UNC 2022
Skywalkers 7
M&D 1
Capital 1
Hero’s 1

Total number of players on national championship teams over past 5 years:
Skywalkers = 12
M&D = 5
Capital = 4
Hero's = 1

Ok, so you had a correction pointed out to you, and wouldn't bother to check through any of the other years. Putting the onus on others to factcheck. I think I know what this is and where to file it.

Also worth noting: you originally misled readers to believe it was just four years of analysis (it was five) and that the one correction noted was a fly-in player who was not from the Baltimore area.

4 years -- that wasn't me, and never in the posts preceding the post you originally replied to or since in your "research" was there any mention by you or others about where someone lived early in high school (she played 2 years at McDonough, fwiw). Or fly ins. Should I quote the posts?

And no, I suspect most people tend to mistrust data gatherers if they have been shown to be... inaccurate... and on purpose. And I haven't thrown out any conjecture until the previous sentence.

Except none of this adds any more M&D or Hero’s players to the list of natty champs identified from the past five years. Given your passion on the matter, if they existed, you’d no doubt point them out to us lol.

Actually, I just piggybacked the last one from another poster. Because you refused to answer them. And then berated another poster for "doing all the work" and "not being wrong" among other things.
Now you're at it again mocking data "from the 1950's" that starts --- the year prior, for several years. So no, I'm not fact checking your garbage data as my conjecture is it's biased and likely wrong based on your refusal to factcheck yourself and rely on others. And btw, posters are pointing this out to you, there is no "us".

Is there an interpreter here who can help decipher this? The only clear point is that you haven’t challenge the rest of the data. So it stands!

Not surprising you need an interpreter, given how you fumbled and admitted to misrepresenting the data previously. And insisted it was correct. Don't go into the science business. Career killer.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole conversation is so weird.

With all due respect, who cares about who won the natty? Very few players are choosing a school based on whether a team has won the national championship. College, for most, is about academics and having a great overall experience.

For example, many people believe playing for an Ivy or a school like Stanford or Duke is far BETTER than winning a national championship. So even if they could play at team that has won multiple nattys, they aren’t going to choose it. The question one should be asking is whether a club able to help your daughter develop and grow and, come high school, to commit to a school that checks their boxes.

But if you’re strictly talking competitiveness of teams, I would think a more accurate measure would be looking at top 20, or teams that made the NCAA tournament, or teams that made it to final four. But bottom line is that if there are declining numbers for top local teams, it isn’t because of the emergence of other local teams - it’s because the sport is growing and more players are being recruited from non-hotbed areas and from areas like NY.

Our first Capital parent has entered the chat! The only people who say lacrosse is merely an avenue to an Ivy. SMH.

I wouldn’t assume that parents posting on here are:

1) actually parents of 35s, 34s or 33s. People chat all the time in forums that aren’t about their kid, and this forum has been on the top of the new posts list for a while. Drama is always a draw.

2) actually more than one person. No doubt the Hoco dad is posing as other unique but aligned +1 posters. Lauding the 34 team and club is the clear agenda, but so is ginning up bad feelings about M&D and Hero’s. Some of the pro Hoco 2034 posts are so obnoxious that even that could be a fake Hoco person. Similarly, the piling onto Hoco may just be by one person with a grudge against the 34 head coach (with the Century mentions; no 35 or 34 or 33 parent is going to be in the know about that) but pretending to be novel posters.

Let’s all have good tournaments this weekend! See everyone at Live Love Lax, except Hoco lol. They’re at an Apex tournament once again.

Anonymous wrote:This whole conversation is so weird.

With all due respect, who cares about who won the natty? Very few players are choosing a school based on whether a team has won the national championship. College, for most, is about academics and having a great overall experience.

For example, many people believe playing for an Ivy or a school like Stanford or Duke is far BETTER than winning a national championship. So even if they could play at team that has won multiple nattys, they aren’t going to choose it. The question one should be asking is whether a club able to help your daughter develop and grow and, come high school, to commit to a school that checks their boxes.

But if you’re strictly talking competitiveness of teams, I would think a more accurate measure would be looking at top 20, or teams that made the NCAA tournament, or teams that made it to final four. But bottom line is that if there are declining numbers for top local teams, it isn’t because of the emergence of other local teams - it’s because the sport is growing and more players are being recruited from non-hotbed areas and from areas like NY.

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Anonymous wrote:Godine was counted. Levy was not (an out of town fly in). Bit let’s include Levy, which puts M&D with six players over the past five years. Still dreadful.

Ok, thanks. Could you adjust all the other totals for all those teams and years where you made a personal decision not to include them, so we can see what the participation has been?

Well I think people would prefer the facts to win the day. So with that one correction (thank you) the stats are these — and still paint a very clear picture:

NW 2026
Skywalkers 3
M&D 0
Capital 1
Hero's 0

UNC 2025
Skywalkers 1
M&D 2
Capital 1
Hero's 0

BC 2024
Skywalkers 0
M&D 2
Capital 1
Hero's 0

NW 2023
Skywalkers 1
M&D 0
Capital 0
Hero's 0

UNC 2022
Skywalkers 7
M&D 1
Capital 1
Hero’s 1

Total number of players on national championship teams over past 5 years:
Skywalkers = 12
M&D = 5
Capital = 4
Hero's = 1

Ok, so you had a correction pointed out to you, and wouldn't bother to check through any of the other years. Putting the onus on others to factcheck. I think I know what this is and where to file it.

Also worth noting: you originally misled readers to believe it was just four years of analysis (it was five) and that the one correction noted was a fly-in player who was not from the Baltimore area.

4 years -- that wasn't me, and never in the posts preceding the post you originally replied to or since in your "research" was there any mention by you or others about where someone lived early in high school (she played 2 years at McDonough, fwiw). Or fly ins. Should I quote the posts?

And no, I suspect most people tend to mistrust data gatherers if they have been shown to be... inaccurate... and on purpose. And I haven't thrown out any conjecture until the previous sentence.

Except none of this adds any more M&D or Hero’s players to the list of natty champs identified from the past five years. Given your passion on the matter, if they existed, you’d no doubt point them out to us lol.

Actually, I just piggybacked the last one from another poster. Because you refused to answer them. And then berated another poster for "doing all the work" and "not being wrong" among other things.
Now you're at it again mocking data "from the 1950's" that starts --- the year prior, for several years. So no, I'm not fact checking your garbage data as my conjecture is it's biased and likely wrong based on your refusal to factcheck yourself and rely on others. And btw, posters are pointing this out to you, there is no "us".

Is there an interpreter here who can help decipher this? The only clear point is that you haven’t challenge the rest of the data. So it stands!