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Wait and see. Still having tryouts.

Pre-Fall Tournament Rankings among the 2022s?

Teams are not done with tryouts yet. Freak.

NL won't be back in Elite - they lost 3 of their better players to DC Express

Then how weak is DC Express?

api won't be back in elite either.

DC Express will compete with Hawks this year. Got deeper and stronger.

FCA picked up some strong player too. The problem is, Hawks picked up a bunch also.

Koopers is the team this year, their 2021s that are really 2022s are forming a team.

RR is stronger and has the best coaches

DC Express will have more holdbacks that's for sure

Agreed - this will be the team to beat if all 5 Koopers 2021s join with the Philly all-stars.

Overall they are pretty small and probably don't have enough holdbacks make a real push for the HoCo championship.

Did fca and Express get the kids from other teams or just reclassing within the organization?

Any chance Lax Factory, Looneys, 3D , Thunder, Peninsula, or Club Blue moves up?

Fca and crabs might consider moving down also.

Crabs and FCA will never move down, take that to the Bank. Both have former high school and/or college HCs in charge and on the staff. Coaching becomes more important as the boys get older. Both of these clubs have great connections with high school and college coaches. Lots of selfish parents out there: you have to be crazy to leave either or these two storied clubs.

I guarantee that Fca, crabs, and api willl all play in elite

Maybe Koopers moves up and Next Level moves down. Crabs and FCA will improve from last year. 91 and RR will move down. Hawks and Bethesda will be at the top. API might not survive.

Does it matter ..

Crabs and FCA will never move down, take that to the Bank. Both have former high school and/or college HCs in charge and on the staff. Coaching becomes more important as the boys get older. Both of these clubs have great connections with high school and college coaches. Lots of selfish parents out there: you have to be crazy to leave either or these two storied clubs. [/quote]

child please

RR was one of the top teams in the age group at the end of last summer. I read somewhere they had 60 boys try out. Am I missing something.

FCA kids from other teams

FCA will be much improved this year. Crabs is going to struggle as usual. Neither of them are moving down.

RR is much better this year. So is FCA. Crabs and 91 will struggle this year. None of them will move down.

Crabs lost several of their best players to other teams.

HOCO Elite league

Hawks
BLC
FCA
DC Express
Koopers
RR
91
Crabs
Mad lax
API

Hopefully we will all get a chance to play each other once.

Ok. Sure you are correct. But how can RR get better to compete in AA? 0-12 two years. No picks ups from best teams. No kids from AA teams rushing to RR. Stop it RR dad. Next up 0 and 18. Go A or maybe B. Take 89-2 with you. That team skews playoff seeding for teams that belong in AA. All teams don't have the luxury of the schedule for auto wins against RR and 89+2. And for that matter until this year looneys. Those 3 combined for 2-30 record in HoCo over 2 years (89 + 2 only 1 year).

2022 is the year of the reclassed 2021's... Whats the general observation...is it just a few..a lot ..or hardly any??

Wonder if many are switching due to schools they intend to go to in High School...Know several that have done that?/

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Looks like you're talking about 2023. This is 2022 genius

Hawks 3 reclass from 2021
We know crabs 2 or 3 reclass
Fca will have some
Joining the pack is API will have 3 or 4 reclass from 2021

This year 2022 is the year of reclass

Thanks you detective holdback.

So clueless, yet so confident!

Another case closed by detective holdback.

I doubt the nova and Bethesda kids filling the gaps in 2022 are doing it to go to BL.

Just think how good BLC and D.C. express could be if they joined together.

Home of the pinched FO heads!

How many reclasses does BLC have? They sure have some big boys.

Wonder how the actual boys playing feel about being reclassed. Obviously the parents buy into it. Parents either wanting their kid to have an advantage on the field or tired of watching their kid get beat out by a prefirst ( same thing as reclass, just earlier).

Crazy world of lacrosse. Generally similar things happen in other sports like this at the High School level..not Youth..