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Well said. Both add a lot to a team. One has also been doing it against kids at the 2019 age and older and that is quite different.

"Yes, YJ picked up a very good 2020 player. However, there is a current 2020 YJ player that is a fantastic player that may actually be better than the one you're getting. There are also at least 2 TG girls that match her in skill. She certainly won't hurt the YJ team but that team already has a bunch of talent."

Too funny , hey YJ get ready for this family, someone posts about a kid already on YJ and this new kids family member already thinks its about her. They will tell you about her lacrosse IQ until they are blue in the face. Have watched the kid already on your team is a much, much better team player, the one you are getting is a me first player.

So true...the perspective from ROSE color glasses ...WB kid clearly best all around in 2015...EI kid is best Attacker..ESM goalie tie with SWR and St Ants mid is really a def...best position players on LI

Please remember that these are all opinions. No one is disparaging any of the girls being mentioned. Yes they all have their plusses and minuses. Some are better at draw controls, feeding, shooting etc.

The WB girl and Mt. Sinai girl are the most complete package players of the girls I have seen play at that age group. As midfielders, they play solid two way lacrosse, their speed, their shooting , passing puts them ahead of the rest.

The Manhasset girl is very good, just a tad below the other two (IMO). The MC girl was the top at that age about two years ago but some of the other girls have caught up to her and passed her as far as speed and Lax skills (again IMO).

The other TG, YJ Blue and Liberty (and a few Elevate girls) all "got game" as well. Good luck to them all!!!

I thought I would have more dignity than to ever come and write on this blog. It’s bad enough I looked at the sight but when you hear your daughter has become a target for a disgruntled adult or a few adults, temptation becomes too great and you give in. But, we’re human and the last string of banter has put us over. I’m not registering but I don’t want to post anonymously. My daughter is a 2020 player that is trying out for YJ in a few weeks. When someone refers to her as the 2020 kid that played on TG 2019, you might as well put her name since there is only 1 kid that fits the description. For 99% of the YJ and TG families it is completely irrelevant what we do but to the 1% who seems to care, enough already. All your animosity is doing is drawing unwarranted attention to my daughter. Not just the person bashing but the person defending her. Please stop. You are feeding them! There are always people who do this whenever there is change. The right people get it and ignore it. There are so many good players and these girls are so young. It’s ridiculous to play them against each other who is better than who. They are all good and only together can they be great. Let them be. We have two older daughters playing competitive lacrosse so we know how this works. A few new dads of new young kids fight over who is the better team, better kid, better tattoo, better griller, better beer drinker. After 9th grade no one cares and the fighting begins with a new hot head dad coming into the new scene of travel lacrosse. I thought I could endure this stupidity until it blew over but I broke! For the record (and I know most of you don't care) but for the one who cares way too much, yes my daughter is trying out for YJ in a few weeks. She is hoping to make a new team, new friends, new teammates and CONTINUE with the great friendships she made at Top Guns. So are we. We hope the people at YJ will form their own opinion of us and our daughter. We hope she is a nice addition to any team she makes hopefully adds to the level of play that currently exists. I hope both YJ and TG lose a few games each so we can teach our girls to win with humility and lose without an excuse. You win some, you lose some. They are all good and will all find their way and grow in the process. Stop the bickering, the name calling and all the ugliness. I know there will be a string to follow this one poking at “the mom who posted this”. Let’s not dignify this site or this individual character or characters with any other posts on this subject.
JS

WB girl has the whole package. She gets the job done, and done well, through great skill and no dirty tricks.

MS girl has great skill and I'd like her better as a player if she wasn't always trying to do something shady. For instance, when taking a penalty shot she turns her back to the ref to "tie her shoes" while simulaneously tightening her strings to make her stick legal. She's got enough skill so she doesn't have to resort to those maneuvers and yet she does. I don't respect that aspect. She's also refused to shake hands at the end of a game. That said, I think she'll do great at UF, I really do.

EI girl has a great shot and great crease skills. She likes to play with one other player who will feed her or vice versa, she doesn't always look to see who else is open. It will also be interesting to see how she does not playing for her father, who, let's face it, runs just about every offensive play through her.

YEAH YEAH YEAH, how about you earn your spot, instead of backroom deals.

How much lacrosse do you watch?
Doesn't everyone run their offense through their best player?

IMO I would say two best middies are from MS and WB and two best attackers from EI and MC. All bring something to table and for major part very talented and make players around them better. Not all are perfect but all are great at their positions

YEAH YEAH YEAH, how about you earn your spot, instead of backroom deals.

What you seem to be unable to grasp is that this is not a back room deal, it is being done in the open for all to see. That is because the player is going to be in the top 24 at YJ and has earned through her play to be on the top team. It is really time to get over it. Frankly, it is a favor to the kids on the border of making the top YJ team as they should clearly know the situation by now and can tryout elsewhere if they do not like their odds. Getting on the team in 4th grade does not mean you will be there in 11th, or in this case as a rising 8th grader. You earned or lost your spot based on your play, a two hour tryout with hundreds of kids to evaluate will not show the coaches anything new.

Not really interested in you making excuses, said family still needed to earn their spot on YJ, just like everyone else. No just because she's a good player. There are a lot of other good players that had to tryout and earn their YJ stripes not already put on the team and then told to appear at tryouts to not make other teammates parents angry.

We will never respect this family, don't care what you, mama or papa bear says.

Not really interested in you making excuses, said family still needed to earn their spot on YJ, just like everyone else. No just because she's a good player. There are a lot of other good players that had to tryout and earn their YJ stripes not already put on the team and then told to appear at tryouts to not make other teammates parents angry.

We will never respect this family, don't care what you, mama or papa bear says.

Not related to this family at all, but so far you have been the embarrassment.

LR did nothing at school girls...didn't know she was on the fields

IMO I would say two best middies are from MS and WB and two best attackers from EI and MC. All bring something to table and for major part very talented and make players around them better. Not all are perfect but all are great at their positions

I'll take that, if it makes you feel better. Still doesn't change the situation.

JS... tell us what is the reason behind leaving TG

Because the parents want her to be the best!

To the parents of this young girl please go away. So we don't have to read this crap anymore.

WB and EI kid are pretty much by themselves. ..LR plays on a loaded team. . What kind of players would they be in that program were they could not be face guarded , doubled and triple teamed. ..

Do any of you know that there are 2 other leagues besides suffolk? Best crease player bar none is K.B. (S.H.A), one of the best Mid is also from the catholics, I.M. is definitely better than the ones you mentioned. If you looked outside you small world you would see most of the best players are outside Suffolk. Just because they don't seek the glory, doesn't diminish there ability

Do any of you know that there are 2 other leagues besides suffolk? Best crease player bar none is K.B. (S.H.A), one of the best Mid is also from the catholics, I.M. is definitely better than the ones you mentioned. If you looked outside you small world you would see most of the best players are outside Suffolk. Just because they don't seek the glory, doesn't diminish there ability