[quote=Anonymous]where did the new M&D girl come from?
She’s from California. Hearing she’s the top player in the country at her age group. Flying in for games. Her parents wanted her to play on the #1 club team in the U.S.
If it's #16 from Alliance, then M&D just got a lot better. Thought she was easily the best player at Mid-Atlantic. And she is an even better passer than shooter, so she won't create an alpha dog problem.
Nope not going to M&D[/quote But is 100% joining a Md team.
Hero's. Can't imagine her joining any other MD team. But Heros doesn't have a reputation for bringing in out of state kids like M&D.
Looks as if NEMS is in dire need…supplemental tryout #2 scheduled for 24 September!
Well... half of last year's team, at least, is now on SW Blue or White so I'm sure they have quite a few openings.
SWB has 2, Coppermine has 1. Not sure where the rest went.
Shame. They had talent. 3 great players go to M&D 2 years ago. Now a couple more leave. If they would have stayed together, they would have been a top 15 team nationally.
Never would have happened. The head coach was a doofus.
A couple more left??? At least 10 left. Thats as bad as it gets for a Maryland Lacrosse club. The coaching and team morale could not have been worse.
A small club like NEMS with its limited resources and without a strong recruiting director was never going to keep its best kids. Same reason clubs like Renegades, CCLax, Integrity, etc lose kids. Nothing against the clubs themselves, but by 7th/8th grade talented kids who want to play in college go to places with recruiting track records.
As competition for D1 lax spots intensifies, I would expect to be even more consolidation to top programs.
No offense, but you really don't have a clue what you are talking about. I bet your 2027 is your oldest kid.
Integrity has a pretty solid track record of putting kids into good D1 programs, Florida, Duke, Penn St, Maryland most recently.
CCLax might be the oldest club in the state, predates M&D and Hero's. Their owner has been around forever. Their mistake was not buying into the club scene earlier and trying to keep spring for Rec and summer for club. They also was one of the last to have club for middle school and older. Other clubs like Integrity and MD United kinda blew past them for this reason.
Consolidation doesn't really happen because for every kid that takes the place of a HG or M&D kid in 8th 9th grade, there's a kid looking for another club to join.
In fact, there's more clubs today than 5 years ago. There's money to be made.
5 years ago, you would see lots of girls going to top 20 schools from B and C level MD clubs. Not true today.
How many 2025s from Integrity, CCLax, Renegades combined will go to top 25 schools? Not nearly as many a five years ago.
The number of clubs will continue to increase since there are $$ to be made, but top talent will pretty much only reside at top 5 or 6 clubs.
