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It's a lot easier to be at one venue when you have 1/3 the number of teams participating.

Facts

My predictions by pool (playoff qualifiers)

Pink: Eagle Stix, M&D
Green: Alliance CA
Orange: LBC
Purple: Hero's, Aces
Blue: Renegades




Semis: Hero's over M&D, Eagle Stix over Aces
Finals: Eagle Stix over Heros

College coaches care about the 28s? At mid Atlantic the college coaches can see the 24 class at one venue.

Your colors for the top 2 are reversed.

Pink: Aces, Crush
Green: Orange Crush
Orange: YJ South
Purple: Eagle Stix, Coppermine
Blue: Renegades

The point is not Anne Arundel County, its Annapolis area. Anne Arundel County Pasadena North and South of Edgewater is not lacrosse areas.

8 mile radius from Severna Park at the north, Davidsonville to the south, Arnold to the East, Crofton to the West.

Alliance CA will beat orange crush, but at least 10. What's interesting in that group, though, is that Urban Elite will likely go undefeated as well. So the playoff spot will likely come down to GA.

Will be interesting to see if either team goes to a slowdown early as a result.

Baltimore area / Towson and surrounding area. St Paul’s, McD’s, NDP and all of the other private schools. Now I understand the girls come from all over but majority are pretty close. Honestly the entire State, Long Island and quite a few other areas are all really talented.

So, no one left MDU or Crush? We have only heard of an FCA girl on Coppermine. Is this really the only movement? The rest of the teams will remain primarily the same? Seems off from all the potential movement talk a few weeks back.

Suffolk county is the most talented area for girls lacrosse by a mile.

Ok 2022 “top player on McDonogh” Coach Dad that has had to control all aspects of this kid’s game and PR her entire life! She is definitely NOT the #1 player in the nation BY FAR. She didn’t play that well these past two years but will continue to receive hype thanks to dear old Dad! She will be exposed next year at Maryland!

There is 1.5 million people in Suffolk County NY.

I’m referring to a small 8 mile radius in AACo.

Some of you are really struggling with this concept.

You sound a bit unhinged.

Everything is arranged well in advance of tryouts. They are pointless except to fill up B teams, get rid of some problems and get everyone agitated.

I'm sure this occurs in some aspect for a few players and more so with "targets" attending practices or guesting in games prior to tryouts etc. However I don't think this is the case for most. Our DD just switched teams and no "arranged" deal was in place prior to tryouts. Went through the process and it all worked out. Just our experience but as we learned, you want to be seen as much as possible.

Totally unhinged. It’s the same troll who constantly bashes that family, McD, and M&D 2026.

I’m sure an 8 mile radius around mt Sinai , NY would yield just just as much talent

Im not debating the validity of tryouts. I am saying there was supposedely going to be a decent amount of movement and pick ups. Tryouts or not, there still was no movement other than the FCA girl that was referenced a few threads back?

You have to get near the field to be exposed.

Don’t sleep on Kent County! Talent pool is deep! Big investor funneling money into new club. TBD!!

There's more movement than what's posted on here. All will find out soon enough....

You all have been drinking too much of the Kool-Aid. Queen Anne’s county has the best players in girls lacrosse. Go home and sleep it off.

Can you name multiple Tewaaraton winners from your county? If not, you're not in the conversation.

Why so secretive? Tryouts are over? Who is benefiting from this movement?

Howard Countt probably has the best pool

Some good matchups today at Mid Atlantic, hopefully the rain holds out! Aces with a big win yesterday.

The success of two players does not invalidate the steady flow of good D1 players year after year.

One really has nothing to do with other.

wait till Monday. A good amount of movement, but nowhere near what some people expected. Most of the top teams taking 3-5 new players, not the 7-10 that some folks expected.

After what happened to the M&D 2026 team last year. This year they are waiting to tell players their status.

Can’t wait for parents to realize college coaches don’t give a F about girls until going into 10th grade and it really picks up the following summer (going into 11th)

All the middle school showcases are a joke and money grab

Most coaches think parents are clowns

It's mid Atlantic weekend? Where is the big surprise debut?

Girls were absolutely told their status after tryouts. Red currently trying to fill the team with girls that did not tryout and were cut from other Lower A/B teams

I agree with 98% of this. If an underage girl really impress at camp, the coach will write her name down and maybe ask her to register on their propect website. However, all it means that is this kid will get on their radar -- nowhere close to an offer

I do think it makes sense to do a showcase or two as an 8th grader -- just to understand how they work, but it should be more for development than exposure.

Looks like the best was saved for last, M&D, Skywalkers, Aces and Eagle Stix. Eagle Stix on top over Aces. Big weekends for M&D and Skywalkers (Skywalkers looks strong!). Some surprising results in the top 2 brackets.

Ace's Elite parents are the worst parents of all the teams I've every watched. Not a big fan of the coaches either, always cheating with substitutions, offsides, etc.

Great weekend of lacrosse once again in the Maryland area. Congrats to Eagle Stix on winning and to all the out of state teams making the trip. Watched a good bit of the games while waiting for our next ones to start. I am really not sure why there is so much animonsity and resentment towards other teams. Most of the parents of these players played lacrosse at this age and we all should be enjoying watching the game we all grew up playing and loving. There are talented girls on every team, and dedicated coaches committing their time and energy to the growth of our daughters. Do they get caught up in the games sometimes, sure…but so do most of us! To say these parents are the worst, I dislike that coach…come on. The season is long as you may have only seen a team once or twice that you played this weekend…and you are throwing judgement at a team / club while watching a small subset of their season.
The girls are young and I did not see any college scouts at Franklin HS this weekend. Congrats to those that won and great job to those that played their best and came up short.

We played against Ace’s Elite 2028 team and I thought the parents were not any different than parents of other teams we played. I do think there is entirely too much “coaching” by parent spectators. I am all for cheering and encouragement, but shouting instructions to one’s child can only distract the child and may be in conflict with the instructions from the team’s actual coaches. This observation applies to the parents of every team we played and in no way is directed solely to Ace’s Elite parents. In fact Ace’s Elite parents weren’t as guilty as most.

Great comment!

Also agree with this. I'm sure there are always a few select bad ones and bad behavior but for the most part it's pretty calm and normal. Some good games this weekend for sure. Its great seeing Aces and Eagle Stix continue to travel and come to the big tourneys, they provide a great level of competition. Congrats to Eagle Stix on the Win!

It was a very good weekend of Lacrosse. Thankfully it wasn't a wash out! Congrats to all the teams that participated and to the Eagle Stix for winning the championship. I was able to meet parents from different teams from different state (Georgia, Colorado, California, etc.) and all of them were positive and overall very nice people. Pretty much happy to be there to compete to find out how they stacked up. The only complaint we heard was the fields were not the best. Looking forward to the fall and another competitive season. Its good the game is growing.