Originally Posted by Anonymous
The purple team only played tougher teams at the Hofstra Tournament, which the brackets were set up so that Black could have a cake walk to the finals to play Elevate.
The purple team was a joke for the majority of the season and ended winning all their games in Deleware while every competitive team at the 2017 age bracket was in Richmond. The parents were going crazy, paying for extra practices rolling their eyes at the complete lack of coaching until Andrew Smith finally was put in place. Taking away the previous year coach completely hurt them at the start of the season as her replacement was likely a decent player somewhere but not a force with regard to coaching.
The Smiths will likely pay attention now as the team is at the HS level, growing pains.
The white team is not a second B team, they are a C team and the expansion was made to not let potential players walk to other teams as they are just 9th graders and there is an opportunity to move up, all very smart business moves as is being the first tryouts each year.
Here is where it gets interesting, how many parents will send in that $500 check before the other Teams tryouts ?
I know personally that a group of the Purple girls that were demoted (yes it stings, but very true) to White are looking elsewhere.
As for recruiting, if you want your daughter playing D1 at a Top Ranked school thats great, she will give up a great deal of the college experience to be somewhat owned by the program. The expanse of the sport to the Mid West presents an opportunity for girls to play at amazing schools and get a great education. If in fact they as Long Islanders take advantage of new College programs they will likely be leaders on these teams, and possibly in their lives, what better lesson than that for a young woman in society today. If your here for anything more than putting a smile on your childs face and learning what a team is you got it all wrong, thats why its called a GAME !!!!!


You have some very good points mixed in there, but you don't know ANYTHING about the White team yet...stick to what you know for now...