No. Many left.

Did BLC keep it's players?

There has been movement amongst teams in this class. Will be interesting to see how it plays out next season.

2030 DMV is the known and better team. They practice in MD.

2030 VA was formed last year. They practice in Nova area

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Anonymous wrote:Some teams are still having tryouts this week. M&D, Hoco, and Coppermine West. Possibly more

YJMA 2030 has a supplemental tryout this week if you want to be in Bethesda.

Is YJMA 2030 the same thing as YJ DMV 2030?

YJMA has two 2030 teams. the YJMA DMV is in Bethesda. the YJMA VA is in Fairfax. One is better than the other

Anonymous wrote:Some teams are still having tryouts this week. M&D, Hoco, and Coppermine West. Possibly more

If there's a club you missed, you can always reach out to a club director and see if they are entertaining any supplemental tryouts for their team that aren't publicized.

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Anonymous wrote:Some teams are still having tryouts this week. M&D, Hoco, and Coppermine West. Possibly more

YJMA 2030 has a supplemental tryout this week if you want to be in Bethesda.

Is YJMA 2030 the same thing as YJ DMV 2030?

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Anonymous wrote:They find out soon if there will be movement.

How do people not know that rosters change significantly after 7th and 8th grade years? There’s normally a lot of movement between most teams at this age.

Not clear if it’s true but it should not come as a surprise. A logical person would rather play for heroes, MnD or MDU now than wait for Capital.

Next year will be even worse as good players on mediocre teams try to make better teams. Why would anyone wait until next year to try out for a better team anyway? There’d be more competition.

I definitely understand why players on BLC will leave this summer for teams that go through high school rather than waiting to be in limbo next summer while they don’t necessary have great choices and their team ends.

Agreed. The state of Capital has to have players in general recalibrating their original gameplan.

Am I missing something? What is going on with Capital?

In general DC area is losing players to Baltimore clubs in the years prior to
Capital tryouts. The DC area 2029 class talent is concentrated at MnD DC. If that talented 29 MnD DC class doesn’t move to Capital, Capital runs the risk of having 3 straight years of underperforming relative to the pre 2027 classes.

Capital 25 was an exceptional team, but the outlier not the norm. 26 finished 14 and if you go back and look at 24,23,22 you’ll see teams ranked in the 14-21 range. Capital 27 and 28 are only slightly underperforming the historical norm.

People particularly at this age are trying to wade through the information, from good down to toxic on DCUM. They don't need misinformation disguised as factual.

Where teams are for their sophomore year is really the only year that matters for recruiting for top echelon teams. For placement in brackets, looks by coaches and by default for the quality of the players and teams themselves. After that, many girls are committed and it's not the same environment at all.
2023 - 12
2024 - 8
2025 - 4
2026 - 7
2027 - 22
Those are the results from those years. Getting in the top 15 is giving a team those looks at most tournaments, and obviously top 10 and higher for even better quality of games, players on your team, etc. There is one that doesn't look the same as the others (unless you included 2028). Couldn't pull up where 2022's fell. Recruiting in this environment will be difficult if players are looking at the template of previous years.

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Anonymous wrote:They find out soon if there will be movement.

How do people not know that rosters change significantly after 7th and 8th grade years? There’s normally a lot of movement between most teams at this age.

Not clear if it’s true but it should not come as a surprise. A logical person would rather play for heroes, MnD or MDU now than wait for Capital.

Next year will be even worse as good players on mediocre teams try to make better teams. Why would anyone wait until next year to try out for a better team anyway? There’d be more competition.

I definitely understand why players on BLC will leave this summer for teams that go through high school rather than waiting to be in limbo next summer while they don’t necessary have great choices and their team ends.

Agreed. The state of Capital has to have players in general recalibrating their original gameplan.

Am I missing something? What is going on with Capital?

In general DC area is losing players to Baltimore clubs in the years prior to
Capital tryouts. The DC area 2029 class talent is concentrated at MnD DC. If that talented 29 MnD DC class doesn’t move to Capital, Capital runs the risk of having 3 straight years of underperforming relative to the pre 2027 classes.

Capital 25 was an exceptional team, but the outlier not the norm. 26 finished 14 and if you go back and look at 24,23,22 you’ll see teams ranked in the 14-21 range. Capital 27 and 28 are only slightly underperforming the historical norm.

Cap 26 certainly had exceptional recruiting results, which is the primary objective in high school. The recruiting story has yet to be written for Cap 27 and 28.

Anonymous wrote:Some teams are still having tryouts this week. M&D, Hoco, and Coppermine West. Possibly more

YJMA 2030 has a supplemental tryout this week if you want to be in Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:They find out soon if there will be movement.

How do people not know that rosters change significantly after 7th and 8th grade years? There’s normally a lot of movement between most teams at this age.

Not clear if it’s true but it should not come as a surprise. A logical person would rather play for heroes, MnD or MDU now than wait for Capital.

Next year will be even worse as good players on mediocre teams try to make better teams. Why would anyone wait until next year to try out for a better team anyway? There’d be more competition.

I definitely understand why players on BLC will leave this summer for teams that go through high school rather than waiting to be in limbo next summer while they don’t necessary have great choices and their team ends.

Agreed. The state of Capital has to have players in general recalibrating their original gameplan.

Am I missing something? What is going on with Capital?

In general DC area is losing players to Baltimore clubs in the years prior to
Capital tryouts. The DC area 2029 class talent is concentrated at MnD DC. If that talented 29 MnD DC class doesn’t move to Capital, Capital runs the risk of having 3 straight years of underperforming relative to the pre 2027 classes.

Capital 25 was an exceptional team, but the outlier not the norm. 26 finished 14 and if you go back and look at 24,23,22 you’ll see teams ranked in the 14-21 range. Capital 27 and 28 are only slightly underperforming the historical norm.

Some teams are still having tryouts this week. M&D, Hoco, and Coppermine West. Possibly more

I know that almost all of the tryouts for DMV Teams have passed.

Does anyone know of any 2030 teams that are planning to have supplemental tryouts later in the summer?

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Anonymous wrote:They find out soon if there will be movement.

How do people not know that rosters change significantly after 7th and 8th grade years? There’s normally a lot of movement between most teams at this age.

Not clear if it’s true but it should not come as a surprise. A logical person would rather play for heroes, MnD or MDU now than wait for Capital.

Next year will be even worse as good players on mediocre teams try to make better teams. Why would anyone wait until next year to try out for a better team anyway? There’d be more competition.

I definitely understand why players on BLC will leave this summer for teams that go through high school rather than waiting to be in limbo next summer while they don’t necessary have great choices and their team ends.

Agreed. The state of Capital has to have players in general recalibrating their original gameplan.

Am I missing something? What is going on with Capital?

In general DC area is losing players to Baltimore clubs in the years prior to
Capital tryouts. The DC area 2029 class talent is concentrated at MnD DC. If that talented 29 MnD DC class doesn’t move to Capital, Capital runs the risk of having 3 straight years of underperforming relative to the pre 2027 classes.

I don’t think this is accurate. There are enough good teams in the area to field a competitive Capital team. BLC is 23rd, Stars is 31st, 3d VA is 42nd, and Cavlax is 52nd. Between those teams they should be able to pull enough talent to field a competitive team.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They find out soon if there will be movement.

How do people not know that rosters change significantly after 7th and 8th grade years? There’s normally a lot of movement between most teams at this age.

Not clear if it’s true but it should not come as a surprise. A logical person would rather play for heroes, MnD or MDU now than wait for Capital.

Next year will be even worse as good players on mediocre teams try to make better teams. Why would anyone wait until next year to try out for a better team anyway? There’d be more competition.

I definitely understand why players on BLC will leave this summer for teams that go through high school rather than waiting to be in limbo next summer while they don’t necessary have great choices and their team ends.

Agreed. The state of Capital has to have players in general recalibrating their original gameplan.

Am I missing something? What is going on with Capital?

In general DC area is losing players to Baltimore clubs in the years prior to
Capital tryouts. The DC area 2029 class talent is concentrated at MnD DC. If that talented 29 MnD DC class doesn’t move to Capital, Capital runs the risk of having 3 straight years of underperforming relative to the pre 2027 classes.