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congratulations to Coach Thorn of ESM - Tri state and Long Island coach of the year!

what a great year for ESM congratulations to Coach Becky Thorn. What a huge accomplishment!!

Regarding ESM..She must be real good, gets a lot out of many of the girls on the team...not just the coaches select few (stat padders). She has developed a TEAM with substantial depth..good for her and ESM..

Can someone explain to me why S A from West Babylon is missing from the all-long island girls?

No Manhasset girls with all those All Americans and All Long Island team players. What's up?

She made team Missed picture but is listed in Bios. Would have been nice to mention she missed picture

Not bad for a nasty bully!

Senior Under Armour All American Girls from Long Island playing for the North Team.
Congrats on the highest Under Armour honor!!
Quite impressive to have 7 LI girls on this most prestigious team made up of the best girls lacrosse players in the country!!!! LI is proud of you!!!!

Kristen Adams, Garden City, Defense, UPenn
Lauren Daly, Shoreham Wading River, Goalie, Boston College
Kathryn Hallett , Manhasset, Midfield, Princeton
Nicole Levy, East Islip, Attack, Syracuse
Holly Logan, Cold Spring Harbor, Midfield, Johns Hopkins
Samantha Lynch, Huntington, Midfield, Notre Dame
Sydney Pirreca, Mount Sinai, Midfield, Florida

Most of the girls you mentioned are Seniors. Next year will be a reloading year unless some girls really step up their game.

You must be missing something there are Manhasset girls on these teams. One exception the Underclass team a player who would have sure made it was injured and did not try out

Great for them, hopefully they don't wash out of the lax program after a year or two like 50% do.
Will they be able to maintain their GPA's so that they can be Top Guns and Yellowjackets coaches for their careers?

Why are two Girls from GC on the New England Under Armour Team?
I did not GC was considered part of New England.

ELIGIBILITY: Boys and girls who, in July 2015, will have just completed their freshman (grad. year - 2018), sophomore (grad year- 2017) or junior (grad year- 2016) high school season. You must live within the geographic region* for the team you are trying out for and be in good academic standing.

Maybe they are sick of the LI politics?

Maybe they tried out for Long Island team and had a bad tryout so did not make team . It's a ridiculous and desperate move by a couple egomaniacs who could not stand that other kids were more deserving . Sets a very bad precedent going forward , watch CR take advantage of this in coming years and have all her YJ kids try out for New England just to stick it to some LI coaches she does not like .

We all are but to think your special and violate the tryout terms is a great lesson to teach your child. You couldn't make here so go somewhere else and ruin another girls chance. Nice way to represent Long Island and your hometown. (Oh I know they own ski houses in New England)

We all are but to think your special and violate the tryout terms is a great lesson to teach your child. You couldn't make here so go somewhere else and ruin another girls chance. Nice way to represent Long Island and your hometown. (Oh I know they own ski houses in New England) [/quote

Maybe they do have ski houses but it still violates the rules and guarantee you that the UA people do not know the real reason these ego maniacs did what they did . Read the rules and its a clear violation , hopefully comes back to bite them .

Have a safe trip and good luck this weekend all those traveling to Towson for games ,represent Long Island well.

And New England

I dont agree with LI girls trying out and playing for a different region either..but to each their own..

I imagine it will be a little awkward when they bump into their freinds and club/HS teamates on team LI while wearing New England uni's

or maybe its just us parents that care..

That is just absurd that players from LI will be on a New England team.

It's one thing to tryout for another region if you could not make the tryouts. However, to tryout for LI - not make it and then go to another region is absurd. UA just lost all credibility in their already tainted tryout process.

Maybe that's why LIers went elsewhere, to avoid the tainted process that we know exists in our region.

How can UA allow kids to tryout in multiple regions? It is against their own rules? What are we teaching our kids - you did not make the LI team, so let's tryout again for another region and hopefully you will make a different team.

Lastly, why would a girl who is already committed to college go to another region?

I guess she wants to play...

Not sure it is a huge coup when it is highly politicized and tainted in the selection process. If it was a fair tryout- which we all know will never happen- then it is a huge coup. For now, it is a resume stat that you pay a lot of money to attend.

Haha, touche. Valid point.

What was not fair about the tryout?

Did the coaches select a large number of girls who play for their high school or club teams?

Who were the evaluators?

Were all of the evaluators from the same club?

Did the evaluators select a large number of girls from their high school or club teams?

Were there any girls who made the team who have no high school or club affiliation with the coaches or evaluators?

I watched the final game of the tryouts and the level of play was very high. All of the 40 plus girls on the field could have been selected.

I think the process was fair. It is unfortunate that their is only one team from Long Island. Maybe UA will consider two teams in the future, one Nassau and one Suffolk.

Sounds like sour grapes to me when you say the process was political, tainted and unfair.

Congratulations and good luck to the girls who made the team.

No sour grapes, just truthful. Lots of people have lots of connections and some don't even admit to the fact that they make phone calls!! Sounds like a very defensive response. Lots of back phone calls, attempts or having privates with coaches prior to tryouts, connections between clubs. Sorry your so angry about the truth. Good for your daughter if she made it, but be honest with yourself in that there is a lot of political play with ALL of these tryouts. We all know how the lacrosse world works these days and is very unfortunate. No sour grapes at all just honest! BTW that is the typical response when someone brings the truth to light that my daughter didn't make it....that's all you got I guess.

Then why did they originally try out for LI ,kind of destroys that point

If UA was truly invested in a fair and honest process the answer is simple. Where do they attend high school. They want the $$. Sad thing is parents are so obnoxious and callous that they don't even think their daughters are taking spots away from girls who live in the New England region and attend school their year round. Typical LI parent who doesn't stop until they get what they want. Don't want to hear the BS it is what the kid wants, we all know they live vicariously thru their children! Shame on them and shame on UA. Again, not a taineted, political, unfair process???

Look at the Brine rosters from this past week, LI kids playing for 5-6 different states

You sound like such a [lacrosse] , congratulate the kids that made it and move on . If it was so political than how do explain so many YJ kids making the team . You make accusations about phone calls etc but then are too cowardly to state who , or what schools , or what connections like a coward . Just so douchy.

Brine said it would be that way at the tryout. That's a bad uninformed argument.

Some Parents think they are above everyone else. They have to look good in their town at any cost and do not care who they step on or hurt.

If the UA rules on eligibility do not restrict the kids to the region where they attend school, then the parents are not violating any rules. Change the rule on eligibility, don't dame the parent/kid who tries out for the event.
Similarly, the US Lacrosse organization should change their US "Championships" rules to restrict the number of teams from one club… or stop giving "automatic bids." Let the teams qualify each year from each region. You might see more teams coming to the regionals to qualify.

ELIGIBILITY: Boys and girls who, in July 2015, will have just completed their freshman (grad. year - 2018), sophomore (grad year- 2017) or junior (grad year- 2016) high school season. You must live within the geographic region* for the team you are trying out for and be in good academic standing.

SELECTION: Each player must register for their geographic region*.Players will be judged by a panel of knowledgeable sources including coaching experts from that region. Each team will consist of a maximum of 24 players and will be chosen based on position and their performance at that day's tryout. Walk up registration will cost $190 for boys and $130 for girls.

What was the story with inside lacrosse invitational ? , hearing minimal college coaches attented and weak competition ? Was it as thin as they say ? Elevate crushed all competition ?

So clueless

Some of the final UA girl's games were canceled today. Two fields were lost due to rain and unplayable fields.