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CANT play against good opponents? Funny

Ouch! Someone got beat by GC and Ryken I see!

According to Laxpower here is the Hill Academy Schedule:

3/14 Springside Chestnut Hill (Philly)
3/15 Georgetown Prep
3/16 Calvert Hall
3/17 Loyola Blakefield
3/18 Archbisop Spalding
3/19 Boys' Latin

Hill Academy is just an IMG in the north, without football. Most kids only go for one semester and they recruit from all around North America. They also get bunch of Edge lacrosse players

Pretty sure McD has been added to their list of games.

Not on McD School Athletic website schedule . Good out of conference teams there Chaminade, Haverford, New Canaan, Durham and a few Good teams from DC area. Tough schedule prior to their MIAA season.

New topic of discussion:

Best team in the eastern shore, other then KI or Queen Anne's

I don't really know much anyways. And I know that some of the best players come to the "mainland." Severn and St Mary's benifits the most out of this, but the hawks 2020 navy commit lives on the eastern shore but goes to McDonough. I imagine he lives there, as the commute would drive anyone insane

Talbot has a strong team. Usually on par with Kent Island. Not always. Worcester Prep very strong too. As far as club.....Kaos U13is good A level. Quiet Storm has a strong HS JV. Dark Horse and Triple Threat usually have a decent team among the many age groups. Eastern Shore teams aren't grade based. Not enough kids over here. Giovanni, McD/Hawks 2020, is a 5 day boarder. He has played for several clubs over here before graduating to Hawks. He is even better on the football field, gets perfect grades and a helluva artist. I have a Looneys 2021 player that played several teams over here too. It's pretty sweet living on this side. I only cross the bridge for lacrosse and the airport.

Hill Academy is indeed a sports academy. They offer hockey or lacrosse and it's located in a suburb of Toronto. 90% of the lacrosse players commute to the school from the greater Toronto area. The other 10% do come from other parts of North America. The boarding students are not their best players, either.

They have 3 lacrosse teams: middle school, junior varsity and varsity. The JV and V are divided based on grade and not ability. The 2019's and 20's are on JV and the 2017's and 18's on V.

The school is very demanding. Past players have gone on to Harvard, Cornell, JHU, UNC, etc. Hill Academy players can be found on many college rosters at every level. It isn't for everyone and the staff is very up front about that. It is intense. Maybe some students only last for one semester for that reason.

As far as recruiting goes my guess is that the reputation of the school speaks for itself and players come to them. How hard does McDonogh, Boys' Latin, Calvert Hall, etc. have to work to recruit players? Probably a similar situation.

Hill Academy is indeed a sports academy. They offer hockey or lacrosse and it's located in a suburb of Toronto. 90% of the lacrosse players commute to the school from the greater Toronto area. The other 10% do come from other parts of North America. The boarding students are not their best players, either.

They have 3 lacrosse teams: middle school, junior varsity and varsity. The JV and V are divided based on grade and not ability. The 2019's and 20's are on JV and the 2017's and 18's on V.

The school is very demanding. Past players have gone on to Harvard, Cornell, JHU, UNC, etc. Hill Academy players can be found on many college rosters at every level. It isn't for everyone and the staff is very up front about that. It is intense. Maybe some students only last for one semester for that reason.

As far as recruiting goes my guess is that the reputation of the school speaks for itself and players come to them. How hard does McDonogh, Boys' Latin, Calvert Hall, etc. have to work to recruit players? Probably a similar situation.

Hill school offers quality pre-MIAA season competition to many of the A Conference teams during their spring break swing thru the states. Love to watch them multiple times when they come thru Baltimore in March. Speaking of BL, I'm interested in hearing any "educated" opinions on how coach Brian Farrell's second year will be? Anybody have a read on that team?

Anyone know of a good youth lacrosse league in Hawaii. My family is being relocated their due to the military. Thanks

Thank you for your service. My buddy is in the Army and was in Hawaii for many years. Just got sent to Colorado this year. I will ask him

Thanks

Are you living in Honolulu?

How about Severn and St. Mary's Ryken being undefeated in the Annapolis Indoor League?

It's an indoor box lacrosse league with teams in or around Anne Arundel County. Severn is no supprise, they have the best lacrosse in or around Anne Arundel County. I cannot comment on Ryken.

LOLOLOLOL.... Severn is 2-15 against St. Mary's in the current century.

lolololoooololol

Well Severn beat them 17-4 last year, we're talking about 2017 lacrosse season here.

Is St. Marys going to be better this year?

Yes in base housing

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This is the person that is moving to Hawaii.

I found some online, you didn't specify what age but nonetheless, the lacrosse programs are 7-18, as there is no high school lacrosse there. Also buying stuff will be incredibly expensive due to the shipping cost.

http://alohalax.org/app/index/list/?org=ALOHALAX.ORG

This from what I looked up is the only youth lacrosse organization that I could find. They serve grades K-12 boys and girls. There are a lot of military children from my understanding.

http://hawaiilacrosse.com

This is an adult league, personally if you want to play. They hold a tournement every year that draws attention from MLL players. A lot of them play recreationally in the tournement.

There is no club lacrosse, but Aloha Lax sends a team to the mainland every year.

Hope you have a nice time.

Wow, you guys are tough. St. Mary's has ONE down year, after winning the MIAA A conference championship, and someone on here declares Severn "the best in or around Anne Arundel County."

We ARE talking about 2017 and while Severn and Spalding both have solid rosters and coaching... I hate to break to to you... but in the immortal words of The Who... the AA county theme for 2017 will be "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

Severn will kill St Mary's this year...same as last year ...maybe things change after 2017. StM will be 2-7 in MIAA at best

It wasn't exactly a down year, they won a single game the entire year. Severn made it to the final 4 of the MIAA. You guys just pass off severn until they beat St Mary's 17-4 and make it to the final 4. St Mary's has to take 3-4 years to be relevant.

Severn did have a nice season in 2016. I might point out that they were 3-24 in the conference in the three seasons before 2016.

AA county will be fun to watch in 2017. I know St. Mary's and Spalding have improved their teams from 2016. I hope Severn has too.

Thank you

This year, the top 5 public would be South River, Severna Park, Annapolis,'Westminster and Howard

Not a Linganore guy, but a Frederick County guy. You need to add Linganore to this list. THey've won three state titles in the last 5 years (including last year) and they lost some but have a lot of growing and remaining talent on this year's team.

Sorry, typo, 2 state titles in 5 years.

I'm hearing Northern will make a run for the top maryland team.

Can we get a VA Public top 10 list. You can put the 6a,5a,4a on the same list should make it more fun.
1. Robinson
2. 1 of three Loudoun County schools
3. South Lakes
4. Patriot
5. ?????
6-10. ??????

2A is so competitive, am I right?

2A-1A is like comparing that MIAA C/B to the A conference. Sure these teams are good, but they went good enough to compete with the top dogs aka 4A

I think Laxpower does a pretty good job ranking the MD teams. Here are the MD top 20 at the end of last year:
1 Severna Park
2 Broadneck
3 Linganore
4 Hereford
5 Churchill
6 Kent Island
7 Northern/Calv Ct
8 Fallston
9 Liberty
10 Annapolis
11 Howard
12 River Hill
13 Towson
14 Westminster
15 Mount Hebron
16 Oakdale
17 CM Wright
18 Chesapeake-AA
19 Century
20 South River


I'm not so sure about VA, but here is how they wound up last year.
1 Dominion
2 Stone Bridge
3 Robinson
4 Woodgrove
5 Patrick Henry Roanoke
6 South Lakes
7 Woodson
8 Briar Woods
9 James River
10 South County
11 Atlee
12 Centreville
13 Hanover
14 Western Albemarle
15 Loudoun Valley
16 Freedom-South Riding
17 Loudoun County
18 Yorktown
19 Marshall
20 Broad Run
21 Patriot

You cant use Laxpower they use real numbers and stats to make this rankings. I like when you just make the list up out of your head so people can call each other names.

Yes... a kindred spirit.

The bad thing about laxpowr is that they don't give recent wins a higher weight than wins at the beginning of the season. So teams that lost their 1st 3 games show up on the same as teams that lost their last 3 games.

Lax power also doesn't show strength of schedule.