VLC parents have no problem welcoming kids who made another club team but have found that they don't enjoy the culture there.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

Does your son want to play for a VLC high school team? If so, yes.

If not, not worth it IMHO. Better off playing box and getting in some real runs - or just do off season lifting and conditioning to prep for spring.

So are these like mini-tryouts? How often will they add a kid to the summer team after the skills session?

They add kids all the time, it's one of the gripes some parents have about VLC. High school level teams should be limited to give the kids on the team the proper exposure and play time. Otherwise, it's just ends up looking like a money grab.

But yes, if your kid is a stand out player for sure they would get invited to play. It's happens every year ...

Anonymous wrote:Box can give a kid bad habits. We did an outdoor winter program (not VLC) and it sure made spring a lot easier after playing in that weather!

It can also improve stick skills, learning to pickup GBs in heavy traffic, understanding 2 man game and picks/rolls and learning to finish in tight spaces ... but to each their own.

Spring weather here in the DMV is nothing. Upstate NY? Different animal completely.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

Does your son want to play for a VLC high school team? If so, yes.

If not, not worth it IMHO. Better off playing box and getting in some real runs - or just do off season lifting and conditioning to prep for spring.

So are these like mini-tryouts? How often will they add a kid to the summer team after the skills session?

Box can give a kid bad habits. We did an outdoor winter program (not VLC) and it sure made spring a lot easier after playing in that weather!

Anonymous wrote:Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

Does your son want to play for a VLC high school team? If so, yes.

If not, not worth it IMHO. Better off playing box and getting in some real runs - or just do off season lifting and conditioning to prep for spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

Meh. Many of the participants are middle schoolers or wanna be VLCers who got cut during tryouts or current VLCers who are border
line cuts and hence need the skills help and want to show VLC they will pay the kitty when needed. So mixed bag. My memory also is that half the sessions were snowed out and the other half my kid freezed his nuts off. I luv VLC, but the better bang is at Next Level, which is indoors.

There were no sessions last winter that were cancelled - the first session snow was stamped out by the MS players, yes the temps can be as low as low twenties and that's for the earlier, SEPARATE MS session - the HS sessions were much WARMER... but you could say the kids attending show commitment by just showing up. Regarding the MS sessions, lots of drills w/ stick work, laxIQ, positional instruction - I highly recommend it especially for attack and middies - w/ high standards for what should be done and the VLC coaches had no probs calling out their own players for lapses (stick not in outside hand, incorrect positioning, not moving ball quickly etc). I did see HS tryouts last summer and despite the VLC coaches actually taking time to teach rather than letting kids fail unknowingly - there were kids who clearly needed laxIQ despite their size, athletic gifts - VLC has a strong focus on this. Mileage will vary - my MS kid became a more confident and competent lacrosse player in just the first few sessions.

Have not heard about Next Level but their teams appear to be very well coached.

Anonymous wrote:Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

Meh. Many of the participants are middle schoolers or wanna be VLCers who got cut during tryouts or current VLCers who are border
line cuts and hence need the skills help and want to show VLC they will pay the kitty when needed. So mixed bag. My memory also is that half the sessions were snowed out and the other half my kid freezed his nuts off. I luv VLC, but the better bang is at Next Level, which is indoors.

Is the winter skills clinic offered by VLC worth it for a high school player?

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Anonymous wrote:How proactive is the VLC college recruitment coorindator?

They have a college coordinator??

Don't know. But the college commitment list shows that coordinated or not, their players land in some great colleges. I especially like the mix of top flight D1 programs with some great academically focused D3 schools.

Anonymous wrote:How proactive is the VLC college recruitment coorindator?

They have a college coordinator??

This is VLC 's 3rd Duke commit

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Anonymous wrote:2020 has two D1 commits at the moment - one player to Duke, another to Air Force. More coming soon ...

Is this the first VLC commit to Duke? Must be a stud. I didn't think the Washington based clubs did well with Due.

I think this is the second Air Force commit in as many years. Is there a coach connected to the program?

Duke player was highly ranked, and always on the radar. His brother also plays D1 lacrosse. Great athlete, even better kid. Believe there was an attackman a few years back that also went to Duke; previous recruiting director for VLC also played there.

VLC doesn't have a direct AF connection that I'm aware of on the coaching staff; but the coaching fraternity in college lacrosse is pretty small.

Anonymous wrote:2020 has two D1 commits at the moment - one player to Duke, another to Air Force. More coming soon ...

Is this the first VLC commit to Duke? Must be a stud. I didn't think the Washington based clubs did well with Due.

I think this is the second Air Force commit in as many years. Is there a coach connected to the program?

2020 has two D1 commits at the moment - one player to Duke, another to Air Force. More coming soon ...