Baltimore area has a rec laccrosse program that went up to 7th grade all the kids switched to the team nearest to them
Kelly Post runs up through 8th grade and the club survived True Baltimore's best (and substantial) effort at destroying it in 2020-2021, only to see the KP 2028s collapse internally in 2022.
Many of the KP kids were at most of the Baltimore area tryouts.
There was a secret early recruitment to Team 91 (8 starters) One kid made Crabs One kid made FCA White Two? kids made Predators
The rest of the parents, especially those unaware of the silent summer T91 defection, were kind of left in the lurch, and the kids ended up at LTLC, True Baltimore, or the former Kelly Post "B" team which I guess will now be AA or AAA.
I'll let somebody else comment on the details of the drama that caused the blowup. But any time you have a parent reaching out to another club (91) to make a deal for 8-10 kids to go to that new club outside of the tryout process, obviously all is not well.
Please stop making up falsehoods. It wasn’t a parent who reach led out and orchestrated anything.
First of all, who cares, really. Youth lax is contractual and you can put your kids wherever you want if the coach agrees to take them, and you pay the invoice. I know the parents who ended up randomly going to True were blindsided and "not thrilled", but most parents (by the time their athletic son is this age) knows this is the case.
Second of all, the only people rankled about discussing this, is the parents who took part in the "mutiny" to 91, so, we see you.
Third, who are you kidding. "Falsehoods." (also, when you know every other word in that post was dead-on accurate). These are 12 year olds spread across multiple schools and don't have an agent. The parents had a huge role in it, even if (especially SINCE) it wasn't discussed on the KP pre-tryout parent zoom calls this summer and when asked "where are your kids trying out," a certain number of parents who'd already committed to 91 basically said, huh, what, oh who knows, what tryouts ha ha / nervous laugh?. With tryouts in late July.............This was a topic of discussion at tournaments in June, "5 kids are going to 91" "10 kids are going to 91". "KP is imploding and they're all going to Crabs." It wasn't all accurate but it sure wasn't a secret. You didn't do a great job keeping it quiet. KP kids signed up for July camps in June registered club......"Team 91 MD." Showed up to July camps before tryouts in.......91 shorts.
Somebody spent a lot of energy making sure some kids had an inside track (and that happens every day in youth lax) while other specific kids who you have known for years, did not have that access or even a heads up. And it's a tough world out there, so that's fine too. But we see you lol. Welcome to the fold, you are not better than anybody else making transactional relationships for their kids' benefit. And it's fine. Just don't pretend you're better than the holdback parents, the fly-in free agent parents, the paying-for-one-on-one-Deemer-Class parents, or whatever else.
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