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She withdrew her name. Let it rest.

Thank you for explaining this Shelley. Why did you apply then ? Mikes daughters are alums and asked you too ?

You sound like a meddling parent whose kid was cut from one of her teams. You are taking this way too personal, so that has to be the reason why you feel scolded. You are definitely sore. Get over it meddling parent, your kid just wasn’t good enough.

Now we get it. Your underperforming kid was cut from SW!!!!

A newbie chiming in here but where did that SW comment come from? This is nothing to do with SW. Talent always prevails greedy person.

Here's a great question-WHY DOES ANY OF THIS MATTER??????

A newbie?! Nothing newbie about your kid getting cut from one of her teams. That is exactly what happened. That is why my you are obsessed with SB. I am gong to start calling you a stalker from this point forward. Get over it stalker, your kid had minimal talent and was cut…move on. I love it when a meddling parent thinks their kid is the best player in the world. Especially those meddling parents who can’t accept that their kid was cut. She withdrew her name.

I agree. Someone wants to keep inserting her name for whatever reason. It does sound personal.

You could have just typed the last sentence and let that be it. Sheesh.

Cause she wasn’t getting the job! Her high school team
Is sad now.

OK Stalker. Your kid was definitely cut from her high school team. Keep writing and we can reduce it down to identify you. I have a nice suspicion.

Your kid was either cut or didn’t play much.

IAAM going to the shot clock for 2022

Wow. Much needed.

So glad all the tournaments are all over for the summer. I get so
worried for all of these same girls I see at every tournament, I worry that they will get sick of playing lacrosse! It’s been a long summer and organizations should pull back and stop asking so much of these girls.
My daughter feels that she can’t miss out on any of it and it drives her crazy! We have a life!

You also have a choice to delete it all and not do it.

If playing in 4-5 summer tournaments is too much for your daughter maybe she shouldn't be doing it. 2 practices a week and 4-5 tournaments in 2 months isn't too much lacrosse. No if your sending your daughter to a camp every week and she's playing in UA and other events it can be a bit much. But I hope that if your daughter is doing all of that she really is interested in playing in college.

Don’t do too much. It’s not necessary. Do what you
Think is best for your child. Don’t fall fear to fomo.
You’ll learn come recruiting time that over doing it
Is not necessary. Trust me I’ve been through it.

I don’t think she is talking about just a 4-5 summer club circuit.
The NTDP combine just finished up today in 100 degree heat a week after Lake Placid and before that the AS/UA weekends. Plus camps you cannot miss for FOMO with colleges. Kids are now back to school for fall sports so their summer is over. Tuscany stinks in the summertime anyway, but this year it’s been heavenly because the crowds are way down
These kids had no summer and if they aren’t thinking twice about everything they have no life, and their families all go along with it. I guess I’m just observing out loud. I hope it’s worth it. I hope your kid doesn’t get called to the carpet late May of their Sophmore year and told that they are giving away your spot and it is ok to transfer.

Let the debate begin:

10 Years of Excellence: VSN’s Team of the Decade
https://varsitysportsnetwork.com/10-years-of-excellence-vsns-girls-lacrosse-coach-of-the-decade/

No. 1 Goalie: Megan Taylor, 2015, Glenelg High School

No. 2 Goalie: Caroline Federico, 2013, Maryvale Prep

No. 1 Defender: Sarah Cooper, 2018, Notre Dame Prep

No. 2 Defender: Sami Chenoweth, 2016, Manchester Valley

No. 3 Defender: Liz Bannantine, 2012, McDonogh School

No. 1 Midfielder: Taylor Cummings, 2012, McDonogh School

No. 2 Midfielder: Zoe Stukenberg, 2013, Marriotts Ridge High School

No. 3 Midfielder: Lizzie Colson, 2016 Manchester Valley

No. 4 Midfielder: Andie Aldave, 2017, McDonogh School

No. 5 Midfielder: Francesca Whitehurst, 2015, Roland Park Country School

No. 1 Draw Control Specialist: Maddie Jenner, 2018, McDonogh School

No. 1 Attacker: Megan Whittle, 2014, McDonogh School

No. 2 Attacker: Caroline Steele, 2015, Severn School

No. 3 Attacker: Hannah Mardiney, 2018, Notre Dame Prep

Coach of the Decade
CHRIS ROBINSON, MCDONOGH SCHOOL
by Katherine Dunn


The Baltimore area boasts a history of outstanding girls lacrosse coaches, but when it comes to winning, none can match Chris Robinson.

VSN’s Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Decade, Robinson guided McDonogh to a perfect record, seven IAAM A Conference championships and seven national No. 1 rankings between 2011 and 2017. Before he left the program to coach in Florida, the Eagles’ national record 198-game winning streak had reached 177 games. They broke the old record of 103 in 2014.

Chris Robinson has won 410 games as a girls lacrosse high school head coach, including a national record 198 straight during his illustrious tenure at McDonogh School.
During Robinson’s 13 years as head coach, McDonogh went 255-10, a winning percentage of 96.2, with 10 IAAM championships and eight national No. 1 rankings. He was VSN’s 2013 Coach of the Year, USA Today’s 2016 and 2017 All-USA Coach of the Year and a two-time Baltimore Sun All-Metro Coach of the Year.

“I always tell people he just knew how to win…” said former Eagle Andie Aldave, VSN’s No. 4 Midfielder of the Decade.“There was just something about Chris where his energy and his intentions were like, ‘We’re just going to win no matter what the circumstances are,’ and I think having him on our sidelines, we knew that going into every game. Obviously, we played different teams and some were better than others, but either way, he always found a way to win. He knew who should be on the field, he knew what play to call. It wasn’t perfect, but he just always had Plan A, Plan B to Z for certain circumstances and that’s why we were always so prepared.”

Taylor Cummings, the best player in Eagles history and their current coach, said it was all in the details.

“We did so many game scenarios and game situations that he really focused on the little details which in turn built his lacrosse players’ IQ and helped us become smarter and more intelligent players. We had a lot of really talented lacrosse players and he made us thinkers too,” said Cummings, VSN’s No. 1 Midfielder of the Decade who went on to win three Tewaaraton Awards at Maryland.

Robinson said a lot of factors went into building the dynasty in the hotbed of a sport that already boasted six winning streaks of 54 or more games, including two of 103 — Loch Raven (1982) and Mount Hebron (2007).

McDonogh drew much of the area’s top talent because of Robinson’s track record. He and his brother Scott Robinson run one of Maryland’s top club programs, M&D Lacrosse, and many of those players went to McDonogh. He also praised his assistants, especially his brother who coached the Eagles’ stifling defense.

“Beyond that, the kids bought into our unselfish style of play,” Chris Robinson said. “Even though we had a lot of star players — kids that went on to be Tewaaraton winners and college All-Americans and everything else — they realized that we were a better team if we had seven offensive threats on the field at once, seven defenders all in unison and I think that was a real key to our success. We were able to remain so unselfish despite having so much star power.”

Robinson also helped the Eagles deal with the mounting pressure brought on as the streak climbed toward the previous record, surpassed it and continued to balloon. The players always said they didn’t think about the streak, but some, after they graduated, admitted that it was hard to put out of their minds.

Megan Whittle, VSN’s No. 1 Attacker of the Decade, said Robinson helped the Eagles keep it in perspective.

“I think a strength of his was his ability to focus on one game at a time,” Whittle said. “We never talked about the streak. It was always, ‘Who are we playing next week? You can’t think about everything we’ve done. We can’t think about what’s coming next…’ And that’s why it worked. I wasn’t thinking about championships. I was thinking about who are we playing on a Wednesday afternoon.”

Before he arrived at McDonogh, Robinson had already established himself as a top-level girls lacrosse coach. In six years at Mount Hebron, the Vikings won five state championships and were ranked No. 1 in the country twice. At one point, they won 54 straight games.

He’s taken his Midas touch to Lake Highland Prep in Orlando where he guided the Highlanders to the 2019 Florida state championship and to the No. 4 ranking in the Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse Girls’ Top 25 in his first season, 2019. They were undefeated during the COVID-shortened 2020 season and reached the state final this past spring.

He also started a branch of M&D Lacrosse in Orlando and it has grown from 31 players to 200 in three years.

At McDonogh, Mount Hebron and Lake Highland combined, Robinson has a career record of 410-22-1, giving him a 94.7 career winning percentage.

One of the Highlanders’ three losses over the past three years came against St. Paul’s and coach Mary Gagnon, who was never able to beat Robinson’s McDonogh teams. Coming off the IAAM A Conference championship this spring, she plans to play the Highlanders again, perhaps next spring.

Although Scott Robinson is not coaching with his brother in Florida, Gagnon said a critical head-coaching move is hiring great assistant coaches. She said the Robinson brothers set the bar high for other coaches and Chris Robinson has kept it high, going 49-3 at Lake Highland Prep.

“They were so hard to go up against, so well prepared,” said Gagnon. “They scouted the other teams and knew the talent of the other teams. They made every other coach have to raise their game to beat them… When I went to St. Paul’s, I was like I’m going to have to be a good club coach, I’m going to have to put time and effort into getting players to come to St. Paul’s and I’m going to have to be prepared to play the best talent. The way they prepare, I’m going to have to prepare. They took coaching to a different level.”

Did the The Sun come out with Player of the Year or first or second teams for the 2021 season yet?

I'm guessing it's not happening since they never ranked any teams or anything all season. Fall sports are starting. They aren't going to go back and do any lacrosse coverage at this point.

Connin the Barbarian for COY!

They had All Carroll and All HoCo at the very least.

Ha, congrats to the BM goalie on her commitment to University of Maryland.

She may play by her junior year

WHERE ARE THE BIG COMMITMENTS MARYLAND GIRLS? You’re getting outpaced by YJ AND GZ.

MUCH better lacrosse programs out there now.

MD girls are doing what they should be doing and exploring their options and going on visits. Why would anyone commit to the first school they visit? YJ pushes their girls to commit as early as possible.

Or, maybe the LI girls who committed, have done their homework before 9/1? That’s smart , ready to make their move. The schools they committed to are not unknown schools. Duh

Well considering they weren't allowed to talk to the coaches or be on campus with the current team or attend classes or you know, do the things that everyone should be doing before deciding where to spend the most important 4 years of their lives I'm not sure what homework you are talking about. Not saying they are unknown schools. Yes everyone knows these are good programs. But until you visit your daughter may not know if it is a good program for her. The rush to commit early and for parents to brag on their kids is not a good thing FYI. Duh.

Maybe the Maryland girls have more than one option and need to do their due diligence before committing. Maybe the college coaches are willing to wait longer for the better Maryland players. Just sayin LI Dad...

I would be negative too if I had been as completely wrong ^ as you were about the BMS goalie.

I am surprised by the lack of local commits (only 2 so far), but also I don't believe any local girls are in the top 20 for the class of 23 compared to the class of 22

she won't play much until her junior year because she is not better than the 2 goalies ahead of her. that is not negative but reality.

Is that based on your 100% knowledge of MD lacrosse? Could you be more bitter for some unknown reason. Why must ADULTS go on here and feel the need to put their 2 cents on someone's ACCOMPLISHMENT. Honestly, A LOT of these girls may not see the field right away, but WHO CARES. They made the right choice for them, no need to make ridiculous comments just to make your self feel better.

A lot of schools are snatching up Goalies quicker then other positions right away?

In comparison Capital already has 6 D1 commits.

I love people like this. Maryland gets one of the top 5 goalies a year so I am sure the BMS goalie is aware that she has 3 exceptional goalies in front of her and will have exceptional goalies coming in behind her. That is the way it works, at every position, at a top 5 (more like top 20) school. If you are the one that questioned her abilities in the original post, stink it up, admit you were wrong, and be happy for her like the rest of us.

Well the players can't talk to coaches, their club directors can and do frequently-- the last 2 weeks of August are the busiest weeks of the year for most club recruiting directors. Most players especially top ones know who is very interested in them well ahead of Sept. 1st. Anyone who says otherwise is either lying or misinformed.