BOTC - US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2028-6th Grade Fall 2021/Summer 2022

Both Venom goalies are very good. Whoever labeled them "starter" and "backup" is attempting to stir the pot to no avail. They are the Venom goalies and will each receive great training, coaching and exposure.

Mr poolin care to share how old these mid-Atlantic “6th graders” are?

2028 Listen to yourself. I know this, The legit one. Proved what a lost you are. Go look in the mirror and realize, and say I am a lost.
91 Going Down, Down, Down.

"2028 Listen to yourself. I know this, The legit one. Proved what a lost you are. Go look in the mirror and realize, and say I am a lost.
91 Going Down, Down, Down."

Not sure what the above angry gibberish even means. As for "top 10" goalies in the country, who knows. It's foolish to make a national list as there is no way to have possibly seen all the goalies in the country play and I'm sure there are some GREAT goalies out there on horrible teams that you have never encountered. As for the Venom goalies, they are good whether on your list or not. Keep hatin...

Huh?

Looks like moderators changed Wording(Which is fine). Your pretty smart, should be able to figure out.

I honestly don’t think people really care about people going to Florida. I think it’s more about what the cost entails and the pressure you have to actually go. I know lacrosse is a rich mans sport but some of us are blue collar guys, working 2-3 jobs to help pay for a game our kids love. I for one don’t really need the extra expense of going to Florida in January for my 6th grader. Yes, I could tell my kid he’s not going. But when his whole team is going and your kid is the only one who’s not……..it’s tough. Best of luck to all this spring

This troll post is from a not so bright 6th grader from DMV. Next Level doesn't have 3 goalies and while I'm sure some of these kids are good players, none of them are truly the 'best in the country.' There are great goalies from all over, including several from LI, but also NJ, NC, TX, etc.

Any thoughts on PLL Youth Games? Is it worth it?

MD Dad here. Our 2028 was invited, which I'm grateful for, but it's during "ground zero" tryout weekend in the DMV (July 31), so we declined out of some level of caution & avoiding schedule insanity. Easily over 50% of good to mediocre clubs in MD/DC will have at least one tryout day that weekend. Probably 50% will have tryouts at least two days that weekend.

This scheduling by Apex is not unintentional, as they are trying to draw national kids to MD, not MD/DC kids to MD.

Agreed.

I'm the dad of one of these listed above. I know 2028 goalies. Pollin and Robinson are 1A and 1B or vice versa. There is a 2028 who plays for 3d Georgia 2027 who is very good, and True Illinois Premier 2028 has a really good goalie. Plus, the Texas Cannons 2027 kid listed plays his age group with Nationals LC 2028. He's listed too low. He was head and shoulders above the rest of the kids at the Apex Games.

The event was poorly run in my opinion, but the lacrosse was better than expected. I thought it'd be the other way around. It looks like they're drawing pretty well to the summer event, but we can't make this one. My kid had a blast.

People have officially lost their minds. Ranking individual 6th grade players....

Why is this on LI board

Don’t label kids! They might be great now but by the time they graduate high school they could end up being a hasbeen!

Ranking kids is a Maryland message board thing, keep it there.

Speaking of Maryland if you ever see tournaments that post pictures of the champions at a given event have you noticed the kids are way older looking than our LI boys. I don’t get why you would want to defeat younger kids. Sad that it will probably benefit them as far as college goes but it just seems unfair.

Go for Madlax 2028! They have a 2008 birthday on their team.
Hawks, next level and 2way not far behind.

We just got back from sandstorm in California and the 2028 field was strong. The size of the kids on the Texas and Cali teams was enormous. Really tough to say it but md/va/ma kids were not as big as these kids, holdback or not. At this point, I would suggest the LI families play in whatever group the tournament let’s them since the entire country plays by different rules. The Texas team had kids that looked like 2026s with a few 6th graders sprinkled in.

Lacrosse has no rules it’s beyond absurd.

The rest of he country has learned from the MD model! If being a holdback is an advantage, that’s what they are doing!! US Lacrosse HAS got to address this already! It’s getting out of control. Let’s get to age based in youth lacrosse! Period.

I don’t doubt it. It really needs to be age based at this point.

It’s never going to happened. From 2nd grade on there is one aged based tournament, the WSYL. Which has been dominated by LI teams.

especially texas Douglas Brooks from Friday night tykes blays for texas cannons 2025 kids 6'7 300 a frickin unit!!!!!!!!! these texas football kids wont be beat.

US Club Rankings are a joke. For example, 91 Venom is not ever ranked. BTB is ranked in top 25 and Turtles ranked almost 50th when they are basically the same team. Sidenote: Both teams are not good. "B" teams are ranked ahead of "AA" teams. Come On Man!!!!

91 hasn’t played enough games to qualify.

Jm3 played in sandstorm recently, only games listed and they are already in top of list. It is silly but by the end of the summer I think the list will make more sense.

Says the angry Rebels parent hahaha

Legacy shows a record of 3-3
91 venom shows a record of 4-0

how do you/they sort that and rank legacy 11 ?

6 games minimum to get get ranked so legacy made the cut. Fairly universal agreement that Venom is top 5 and could crack into top 3 if they beat 3dne, express north, hawks or madlax. Bored Md dad does a much better job of ranking than the joke rankings being put out there right now. JM3 is a one and done team, mostly 3d NE with a few hawks and LIE players.

Uh they beat Express North. Handily at NLF
I do hear North is improved and “older” now but Venom is certainly improved as well

Was the moose lax 2028 box team the old team or a new team just for box?

It’s was 91 in disguise, plus few ringers. No big deal, Few of kids were on moose but went to 91.

Speaking of ringers…. I guess the feud is over? Turtles kids playing box for the rebels in an effort to make the rebels look better than they are in reality?

Not sure what that even means. Kids that were on turtles maybe.

You know…. The Smithtown drama with many kids leaving the rebels to start the turtles, they were playing for the rebels yesterday and scoring most of their goals.

Who made up the O2 in box? They beat legacy in the championship game

One kid, and now he's on Rebels. Did not score most goals. Have to let this go. Rebels are an outstanding program going up, up, up. Turtles will be gone in couple years. Its ok, just move on

That’s because they jumped ship once again and went back to the Rebels ! 2028 Smithtown parents are just plain toxic. Sure they won’t be happy with Rebels either.

It most certainly wasn’t venom in disguise. If it was venom they would have been called venom. Mooselax 2028 box roster is kids from several clubs who have been practicing and playing for a few months. Kids from venom, surge, S2S, Harborfields and others. Plain and simple nothing more nothing less, kids just playing a fun style of lacrosse.