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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Adding missing pieces? Its just siphon from elsewhere. The entire team is missing pieces. Like they didn't even exist.

2 SSSA girls made Blue. One defense (Stars), one attack (True).
Several SJC
Several Potomac
2 Visitation
2 Public school

If the player can’t run the 300 under 50 then they will not make middie and they better be under 55 for defense and attack. Capital wants speed and you can’t coach it.

So a total of 4 SSSAS girls make Orange, none make Blue and you blame Coach Jenkins for “better” players being left off in favor of SSSAS girls? Makes no sense. I think Capital went for athletes and did not give a crap about their high school or current club.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

What! This could be the worst, least convincing argument I have ever seen in here.

I believe the point they are making is that prior to HS your primary lacrosse is for your club team. When you get to high school, especially at the schools listed above at the varsity level, you are working nearly year-round in an intense system along with girls who are older than you are. When you are in the Spring season you are playing 2-3 hours 5x per week. You also don't have 50/50 playing time, so the leap in playing time can be significant. These factors lead to significant development. Club teams just don't have anywhere close to the amount of time the high schools do with the players.

In addition Capital teams take time to gel and come together. It's not uncommon for them to digress in terms of rankings when they come together. Example 26 took players from two top ten teams and were in the mid 15ish range until this summer where they've made a push into the top 7. They will likely move up even more in the fall and before they finish out next summer.

For blue, it's more an issue of combining the styles of play from the original clubs the players are coming from. For orange, you will have a wider skill gap, and it will take some time for the lower-skilled kids to get up to speed. They will get there. That's why Capital tells parents to relax and not worry the first year the teams are together.

I would also add Ireton to the list for the 25 team. I believe two key players for 25 Blue are at Ireton.

I'd like to comment/correct a few past posts if I may:
1) KJ is the best coach in the area. girls were sold at Stars that KJ will get them ready for HS and Capital. What she did was destroy the confidence of most of the girl and supported and played favorites with the SSSA girls. She may have been a good coach in the past, but that was when girls were using wooden sticks strung with sinew from a buffalo.
2) Girls are Stars Navy were better then LB players: I will admit there were 2 maybe 3 that should have been on LB, but were pushed down by KJ (start smelling a trend here) to support SSSA girls...who weren't very good. However....those 2-3 girls did not make Capital either....as they were not "privileged" to attend SSSA.
3) Brian (Blue Head Coach) picked his team for Blue. God only knows what bafoon selected the girls for the Orange team (caveat, there are a few girls who deserve to be there and earned their spots)...the rest are SSSA (check the numbers). Again....going with KJ here.
4) Blue will be good. They will be top 10 despite lack of SSSA girls
5) Pride has a successful early development program because they do just that...develop. the 28 team has been building over 5 years (yes...since 3rd grade).
6) Katie (or whoever runs Pride) is a fool NOT to suck up to each and every player on the 28 team and beg them to stay together.
7) The Orange team will not break top 50. The Great Falls or Vienna Rec team could beat them.

That is all....

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

Thank you for this perfect response. Some of the same schools even!!

Better cross your fingers.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

Thank you for this perfect response. Some of the same schools even!!

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Anonymous wrote:I think Capital Blue will be top 10 for certain. Solid team all around. Still don’t see any SSSAS girls on that team so not sure if Kathy influences these decisions anymore or if the talent is just too deep across NOVA now. I heard a few made Orange and that’s it.

Since 2024 Capital class completed their Freshmen year, only the 2025 Cap team finished their first year in top 10 (#10). The numbers are against suggesting this wont be the case.

This. I suspect they will have about a .500-.600 winning % in fall. Up it to about .700 % in the summer after HS season development. This probably puts them 12-15 by the end of next summer. Once a week practices in the fall don’t help a lot of development. Everyday HS practice and then 2x week in Summer will be when/if growth comes. Getting above #10 the next year (soph) will depend both on development and how Capital meshes them together and coaches them up. Keep in mind the girls on the MD teams are improving too.

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Anonymous wrote:This is exactly what BLC 27 thought last year as well…. Capital Blue 27 is just fine and 28 will be as well.

Yeah, those players went from the #7 team in the nation to #15. Lets see if they can close the gap over the next two years with the "just fine" Capital Blue.

2027 team struggles to score

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

Start circulating the roster for High School recruiting.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion to get us over the 300 mark:

Pride would have been better off staying together than disbanding and collecting a few players from other teams. I am not sure how players from NL is an upgrade. Capital blue is an upgrade for stars and next level players and a downgrade for Pride players.

If you were a qualified 8th grade girls lacrosse scout and coach, I'd believe you. As you're not, I don't.

Capital will be lucky to break top 20 next year. Drop from 7 to 20 makes me think he is right.

Let's analyze this one. So--you take 11 players from a team that rose to #7, combine with talented and athletic teammates adding some missing pieces, and give them a proven and effective Head Coach and AC who just took Capital Blue 2025 team all the way to number 1 (finished at #2)--and yet you think they will drop precipitously in the rankings and be much less competitive.

I can't follow the logic.

Please. That 2025 wasn't from Capital, that is Stone Ridge, Visitation, Potomac and SSSA. Thats why you see the real jump in the 2025 standings occur after their Sophomore HS years. And that team has some major horses. Seems the Maryland teams can play in the big leagues without blowing up their teams to create a HS all-star team.....

I suspect the 2028s will also have players that attend high schools.

No one believes Capital develops players, they just showcase talent developed by others.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the 4th or 5th year in a row that Capital has taken the majority of their top team from Pride. What does Pride do for development that the other teams don’t? Seems like the other clubs should be doing better.

Take kids from Great Falls, McLean, Arlington and Vienna. That’s the gist of their development program.

And pay for extra training outside of practice with private lessons, camps, and conditioning.

All the series players are doing these things, not just Pride kids.

And Pride actually pays Healthy Baller to come in and do speed and agility in the Fall and Winter twice a week, separate from their team training.

Pride has the best reputation at the 4-8th grade level. They do a good job of getting kids excited when they are young. Look no further than the Cap'n Cookie truck that pulls up after some clinics - smart move. All of the better kids want to play there so they are ahead from the start. As a poster above mentioned, they cater to Mclean, Great Falls, Arlington, etc. which are traditionally the better lacrosse areas in NOVA. Alexandria has some talent but not compared to those areas. Pride does very little to "develop' kids, they just get the better kids early on. Many have parents or older siblings that played lacrosse and generally come from "lacrosse families". Their model is the same as Stars and everyone else. Let's not give them too much credit.

Say more of this "Cap'n Cookie" truck. It sounds like a genius idea.

Thier hot cookie ice cream sandwiches are fire.🔥 Especially when you’re 10.

You got that right! Pride 4 life after that!!! Well, up until 9th grade anyways.

Anonymous wrote:I think Capital Blue will be top 10 for certain. Solid team all around. Still don’t see any SSSAS girls on that team so not sure if Kathy influences these decisions anymore or if the talent is just too deep across NOVA now. I heard a few made Orange and that’s it.

Since 2024 Capital class completed their Freshmen year, only the 2025 Cap team finished their first year in top 10 (#10). The numbers are against suggesting this wont be the case.