Crazy right? The tournament and everything associated with it is1st class and an absolute blast. Amazing scenery, no humidity, legal pot....
What this does show is that Long Island still dominates this sport on age. The best athletes play lacrosse on the island, they practice ALOT and having a team that plays together for a long time clearly has a benefit.
Everyone wants to say the rest of the country is catching up, but it’s really not happening. The rest of the country is getting better at lacrosse and top players from some bordering states can go toe to toe with best players from LI, but lacrosse is a team sport and LI has the best on age teams.
And Team 91 dominates the youth landscape winning 3 of the 5 years.
2020 Team 91 - Crush
2023 Team 91 - Bandits
2024 Team 91 - Wolfpack
No holdbacks.
No 2023’s
No guest players
No WSYL-only team
One team for holdback lacrosse. Same team for WSYL.
70% of team has been together since the beginning, in 2nd grade.
Yes, we’ve seen your same old post across multiple Forums with the same old blah, blah, blah. Speaking of unnecessary and lacking any sense of self-awareness, classy job running up the score to settle a LI beef on national television, WP. Hope that satisfied the coaches and parents. Cringeworthy. Deep down, your moral compass to come on these forums to perpetually brag and trash other teams is no better than MadLax. Running up the score was icing on the cake. The audience tuned out early on your biggest day, the stadium emptied out early as it was clear you are no ambassador for the age on sport, and ESPN2 is probably regretting they televised this event as it was a total loss for their commercial ad sponsors in the second half. Also, the 8 to 10 teams that got clobbered with double digit lopsided losses and went 0-5 or 1-4 in pool play (pretty much
what WP did in the first two games with 19-1 and 18-1 pool play wins), likely won’t incur the time and expense to send their 2025 teams next year. So next year, likely less ad money and less teams which is a bad thing. Sadly, it won’t be surprising if we just witnessed the beginning of the slow demise of the last national age on tournament in the country.