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Don’t worry freshman Dad, you will see where your precious super star really belongs soon. This will be a warm up for you both for recruiting time. Hold on, there are always surprises.

How do families with low incomes survive the whole recruiting process. It seems like you have to be rich and loaded to attend all of these college camps all across the country.

Unfortunately, you are right. One of the reasons why this sport is dominated by kids mainly from affluent families.

Agree, a lot of schools won't recruit you unless you attend their camp. Which eliminates many families who don't have the means to afford the whole process. That is why you see affluent families from the upper Northeast (Mass, CT, NY, to an extent the Baltimore/DC and the rich suburban areas of Atlanta dominate the recruiting landscape. Many families don't have the resources to afford this and all of the clinics, camps, trainings, etc. its a shame.

The cost to send film/highlights to coaches has to be at an all time low. The question is how many diamonds in the rough are out there for colleges to find? Geographically the sport is expanding but still very tightly focused compared to other sports. Minimum stick skills takes time to develop, 3 years? 6 months intensive? Not sure. Field awarenesses + combination plays etc. takes time as well but might be quicker to pick up from other sports like basketball. Once a threshold of skills is reached it seems to be all about the athlete. I think the difficult skills, especially stick skills, keeps someone just picking it up in high school to have much of any chance of playing in college, except ridiculous athletes. Around 8th grade you start to see earlier stick savvy players but lower in athleticism start to fade as more athletic girls catch up to stick handling to a certain threshold. Obviously you can always get better at skills but girls lacrosse seems to hide athletes until a threshold is passed more so than most sports.

Somone sounds like they have a case of the bitters. Don't worry upperclassman dad. Your D can still play club her junior year if she doesn't make varsity and a 3rd year on JV isn't an option.

Good try but wasn’t our reality

Everyone likes rankings!!

Top Draw team:

1. Heros
2. SW (top girl overall)
3. MND

Top Middies:
1. Heros
2. MND
3. SW

Top Attack:
1. MND
2. Heros
3. SW

Top Defense
1. MND
2. Heros
3. SW

Top Goalies
1. MND
2. Heros
3. SW

Sounds about right if you only look at MND, Heros, and SW. Nice post!

Top Parents Bragging:
1. Heros
2. MND
3. SW

No other teams should be considered. The rest are B teams.

HAHAHAHHAAHAHA. Okay MND dad!

UA150 deadline was last night. Do they pick more from top teams or do they try to spread it out between lots of teams? Also, do the Club coaches rate the players on their teams for this?

Here are last year's rosters: https://www.underarmour150.com/index.cfm?do=cnt.page&pg=1019

Seems to be dominated by Sky Walkers and M&D girls (represent 20% of rosters). Not sure how the evaluation is done....

UA150 is the same week as Girls High School National Championships. MD schools did not go last year for some reason which is why there are more MD girls at UA150. HS National Championship sidelines full of top coaches. Anyone whose hs team is invited to Nationals is not going to UA. Look at the coach lists. Better coaches at HS Nationals for sure.

59 Maryland girls on last years 2024 roster. Of those 59, 35 from M&D, SW and heros FYI. Girls national championships no Maryland teams last year.

While not a top team, Garrison Forest will have 2 likely starters and another 2-3 who at a minimum will be solid rotation players. Still expect them to be bottom of the league this year, but can see them getting to middle of the pack in a year or two.

Ummmm, not even close. Plus the top players at Nationals are usually committed. Many schools will send coaches to both, but it is usually assistant to National Championships

Not close because the top coaches are at HS Nationals:

Head Coaches (most had multiple coaches there): Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, Notre Dame, Cornell, Hopkins, Ohio State, Penn, Rutgers plus Phil Barnes (UNC) and Jen Kent (BC). UNC and BC didn't even go to UA. Michigan didn't go either sent whole staff to HS tourney.

Not all high schools go so UA is also a good option but not the same level of coaches there.

Not so. Same level.

UA 150 is owned and operated by Robinson sports…….

Do the 150 for film - my dd did it her first year.
Lots of other regions come in with players. A girl on her team from FL is now going to Brown. Tall and athletic but was very green in experience- so it doesn’t matter your skills!
The only reason the M&D, SW girls do it is because they are proactive about getting into college for lax. You need to have a few small references
And some video lined up for the application. Moot point at this time. But you must be fwd
thinking!
I was talking with a mom from HS team and she had told me she skipped Texas this year as a 24! That’s not the year to be skipping!

All the area team except NEMS. They didn’t think it was worth the trip.

It’s free to apply so what’s to lose?
Also get the film so the the coaches know to check into your games by the time the G8 or MidAtlantic starts!
Tell your coach/ director that you want the team to play up in tournaments so you get seen more.
At this point in your playing it’s more about showcasing than winning. Get selfish. Sorry.

Loyola Indoor. When is it not okay for one girl to score 90% of a team’s goals? Amazing talent but when defense figures out how to slow her down then it is a problem……

Which team are you talking about. If the other team has a player scoring 90% of the time maybe you need a new coach to figure out how to stop her.

St. Mary’s will have 1

What club is she from?

M&D Black. former MU and LBC

6'0 DC middie? Good for St Mary's,

Hmmmm, LBC to MU (or MU to LBC) to M&D. And will be "starting" at St. Marys when they already have a dominant draw girl going to Georgetown and the other two middies are committed to Clemson and Denver. Seems to be a confident Mommy or Daddy!

Funny to hear all the 25 parents with this same song. Those kids already there are better and will play unless it’s mop up times. Can’t wait to see the mess at some of these school with 7-8 freshman entering and 1-2 make varsity this year.

MND Black doesn’t have a MDU/LBC girl.

The 6 foot LBC to MU to M&D girl… are we talking 25 or 26?

Do you mean CCLax? M&D Black has several girls that just a few years ago were on CCLax. 26s have the MDU/LBC girls.

She’s definitely NOT on the 25 team

Yeah, she's 2026, prob premature to discuss her starting as freshman when she's not officially in HS yet.

She's on the 26 team.

8th grade parents please go to the 2026 blog for middle schoolers and get ready for NGLL LOL