BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Girls 2025-3rd Grade Fall 2015 Summer 2016

{quote}I think the bigger question is who are they going to play? other than fledgling PAL teams which travel clubs LI , Md. NJ have a 2025 team? i dont think any. {/quote]

Yeah, thats why I was asking. I don't know of nor can I find any in NY. I suspect the team will be playing in the 4th grade B bracket. So far I haven't really seen many 4th grade brackets outside of Long Island either. I was just curious if anyone knew of another 2025 girls team that I may have missed. They're a dime a dozen in boys but not for girls.

This is the first year YJ has a 3rd grade team. I'm sure 91 would have been happy to create one too. The 91 girls program is looked at as sub-par. This has just been confirmed. Would never have my daughter there after seeing this!

Ummm... So you read something by an anonymous person and make a decision about where your daughter plays? Go away troll, I'm sure they are glad you aren't on their sidelines. And good job breaking down 3rd grade girls into A & B teams. Lol. Keep living vicariously through your kids!

The cesspool of youth club lacrosse now starting at younger ages. When we parents going to wake up? Get your kid a tutor and have them study instead of throwing a ball against a wall. If you are breading a college communications major and a summer lacrosse coach you are on the right path!

If you are breading a college communications major and a summer lacrosse coach you are on the right path!

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

FL6, Blue Devils, E3, Empire, Next Level and YJ have 2025 teams. Not sure who else.

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

Funny, it was actually the most prominent 91 coach breaking the 3rd grade girls into a&b by snubbing his nose at his own organization. He knows 91 girls is a B program and won't have that for his daughter!

That would be a 4th grade team - unless they plan to cheat.

be patient...YJ will soon offer a Pre-K division...

All kidding aside its different strokes for different folks
If your kid wants to play - let her play pal ball or travel if you are so inclined
But keep it in perspective
They are still babies

sorry..there is not a 3rd grade girl (or boy) who decides they want to do travel lax on their own--especially if they don't have an older sibling to follow after!...while I don't doubt that your 3rd grade daughter 'enjoys" travel lax, something tells me that she wouldn't know travel lax from travel tiddlywinks if it were not for a parent pushing her that way..but I may be wrong and your daughter is that much further advanced than most/all other 3rd graders around....but to say she "begged to play" is a bit of a stretch....

I completely agree. The key is fun. If they're having fun, any you can reasonably afford it, do it. Keep it in perspective. I think the stats are something like 1% of youth players play in college, or maybe thats just D1. Regardless if you're looking for a path for college tuition your money would be better invested in a 529c than a travel lax program. If your kid likes competing at a higher level and loves lacrosse then travel is a great way to make that happen.

For our part, my older daughter - older being 3rd grade lol, she enjoys travel lax. She likes the competitiveness and that all the kids try hard which she doesn't get in PAL. Will she even be playing lacrosse in 5 years? Who knows, she's 8. My younger one it remains to be seen whether she'll want to do it. She likes lax but she's not _that_ into it so I would be hesitant to put her into a travel program. The older one begged for it, the little one could give a crap.

Each kid is different, just make sure you and your kid are doing it for the right reasons. Hope that helps.

so your current 3rd grade daughter has been "playing up for a few years now"?...wow...amazing to know how driven she was in 1st grade...remarkable...

Relax a bit, you are in for a long ride ahead. If your daughter can tell the difference between 3rd grad PAL or travel you might just have a prodigy on your hands

Kindergarten actually. And more like luck. One of those right place right time things. I'll tell you about it over a beer some day.



I'm not so sure there is such a thing as a 3rd grade prodigy. There is a difference in the focus of 3rd grade travel kids vs. a good chunk (but not all) of the strictly PAL kids. Its either different interest levels, different maturity levels or both. All of which is likely to change over time. A great 3rd grade player might not be so great in a few years or might not even be playing and a terrible 3rd grade player could be the next Shannon Smith later on in life.

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

Of course Elevate has a team. They would have a team at the 2027 age group if people would give them their money.

Elevate had promise a year or two ago. I thought that they would be the next big club. My daughter plays on a team from the Maryland area and saw that they were starting to become more competitive. In the last year and a half they just have not progressed. Seems like girls have opted to go elsewhere.

Of course Elevate has a team. They would have a team at the 2027 age group if people would give them their money.

FL6, Blue Devils, E3, Empire, Next Level and YJ have 2025 teams. Not sure who else.

[quote=Anonymous]Is Wright the A team?

Your on the wrong thread Wright is the 2023 B Coach

2023 YJ doesn't have an or b team. They have 2 teams. Technically wrights would be the a team, as they were better. Next year who knows?

2023 YJ doesn't have an or b team. They have 2 teams. Technically wrights would be the a team, as they were better. Next year who knows?

Thorn is the A team
Wright is the B team

Only a parent from a B team would ever say that there is no A or B team just two teams. They are both very good, and as another poster mentioned, lots can change over the next year or two, but let's call it what it is.

Thorn's team was supposed to be the A team. Since the Thorn team has lost to the Wright team two years in a row it is clear which is in fact the better team. You lose once,
you had a bad day. You lose twice there is no need for further discussion.

Thorn's team was supposed to be the A team. Since the Thorn team has lost to the Wright team two years in a row it is clear which is in fact the better team. You lose once,
you had a bad day. You lose twice there is no need for further discussion.