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None at 91 or FCA.

So assuming you mean Roughriders since no one else has had tryouts.

Wow Igloo must have hit a nerve. National Championship backfired on team 91

True, but a couple points. That describes my son, and we tried to play 2021 but our club wouldn't allow it since it is grade based now. He always played on age until it went grade based.
Also, like it or not, it is best NOW to play 2022 because if not, you won't have spring lacrosse.

No API helmets at RR tryouts. Lots of other helmets

So where were all these API helmets? Lax World?

Mensa member: So if you're in 8th grade but should be going into the 9th grade, what private or public school is going to let you play spring lacrosse with them. There are no other 9th grade age rec or club teams that play in the spring. Oh I see, take the spring off and play with your 2021 team in the summer. The number of nitwits posting on these forums multiplies daily. A lot of non-athlete parents living through their kids. Life's not fair, The kids that study at Andover Prep have better teachers than yours, a lot of them are also older, many of them will crush their competition in college because they're better prepared. Welcome to life and stop complaining. By the way if your son was that good you would want him playing up to get better.

Have you seen the DN 2023 Team? 2024 team or 2025 team??? Are they nothing without K21's also?? LOL

Those teams are nothing without some of their best players either. So there.

Mensa member: ha! The fact that you fail to see the irony in telling me life is not fair after you whine that your overage entitled reclass highly prepared butt kicking Andover Prep son of an athlete won't have anywhere to pway in the spwing because there's no spwing weague for 2021s... 😢😩

I don't believe this to be accurate; the key players that "left' have been upgraded; particularly in Goal and Face Off. The 2022 will be much improved.

Thanks Mark. We'll see about that.

Really? Wow! So Matt Hogan is going to lie and play freshman (2021) on an 8th grade team (2022)? Wow! How disappointing. I wonder what these kids high school coaches will say when they are forgoing JV or Varsity spots to play 8th grade? This has disaster written all over it.

What if you were born Sept 2 or even Aug 31 ? No repeating or maybe did repeat kindergarten , on the advice from every teacher and well within the rules of all school guidelines and until the middle of last year on board with all lacrosse guidelines. When Lacrosse decides to change the timeline again this year what will everyone be saying then. A few days or even weeks makes such a difference? Calling out all kids and suggesting they are cheaters is deplorable and flat out an excuse for most.
I completely agree that holding back in middle school or high school is a problem, but when almost all your sports is a U11-U13 with a year playing on the younger side a year playing on the older is fair.
For the most part the issue on this site is an excuse for most for why there son is lost a game.

Anytime; just informing the uninformed!

All these teams improving where are the players coming from? Some teams most be dropping off.

As many as he will have, it will be far less than D.C. express, madlax, fca, and Crabs. Please stop acting like this is the team leading the holdback charge. Either you are ignorant of the entire lacrosse landscape or you have other issues with the Hawks.

API goalie at RR.

The only one uninformed is MM himself. He just doesn't get how much of a SOB he is and how much he is not liked in youth lax. He is a total pos that is only interested in himself and his kid. Doesn't mean crap how much he knows or doesn't know about lax, no one wants to be associated or be around him.
Just trying to keep you informed Mark.

OUCH!! MM is getting a bad reputation..Is there anyone that will stick up for him??

No difference in age of a heldback kid and a prefirst kid.. Age is what youth sports goes by in all YOUTH Sports except lacrosse. It may not be right for a small minority of kids to old..but they seemed to survive for 50 years until three to four years ago when the whole grade based garbage got started and let kids play down.

Wow, you seemed to have hit every crazy obsessive branch on the way up the nut tree. How about giving the kids a break. You may like the lacrosse all day every day but your kid will pay in the long run.

How? is MM not coaching anymore?

Who cares? It's August. Give your son a break, or at least us on this board who could care less he got another t-shirt.

Totally depends on which players they lost. 2nd and 3rd string move every year to get more time. Did the starters move? Anyone have the scoop?

Then tell the clubs to start tryouts later. Yeah, it was our choice to go to lacrosse tryouts the first week of August.

what are you talking about, give us details because this sounds like it is accurate and true

Good luck to the API kids trying out for the Hawks this weekend.

Should have a solid B team with all the Dbacks coming over

9d1 had 20 kids at tryouts. Will Crabs have more or less?

No idea what you are talking about. Hold backs are all over football and basketball. Get out of your bubble and look around before you run your mouth.

You are an idiot.

Why would they leave API? why would they leave a nationally ranked team?

The same reason kids left 91.

Most will probably stay. A couple are leaving. Some of the best kids will stay and work with Dukes. Others are looking for greener grass. They are nationally ranked #3, but locally ranked #8. Coaching and development are sometimes questioned which is why kids may leave. Overall negative vibe by some of the parents also may push some kids away.

The Hawks (and every other top team in the country) are following the HoCo age requirements and age requirements of 99% of the tournaments. No rule breaking will occur. Some bitter people want to go back to 3rd grade rec rules and consider any violation of those 3rd grade rules "cheating".

Not in YOUTH sports that lead up to High School. Not one governing body of YOUTH sports recommends or promotes grade based teams. Try as you might to justify the older prefirsts/holdbacks/reclassed players. Age base is the norm for YOUTH sports.

I heard that API was canceling their boys teams now. They just canceled all of their girls programs last week. Anyone else hear that?

Definitely an idiot.

In regards to MM, do yourself a favor and run far very far away from him!

He is a horrible coach and treats his players like trash! Calling a 13 year old a f@cking [lacrosse], f@cking stupid idiot and that they suck and should quit is totally unacceptable!

Every wonder about why he isn't coaching at higher level??? Because his behavior is so horrible that no college or MLL team will take him! Yes, he assist at Gilman, but he is very careful about his behavior there because they will kick him to the curb if he acts up.

Most players tryout for other teams we will see if they stay or go . Most stay with the same team.