US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums MID-ATLANTIC LACROSSE MARYLAND FORUM Girls High School

Mercy’s athletic director just announced on their website they’re moving up to the A conference, so it would appear this was not “fake news”

Read it and weep IAAM A Moms, get a bar tab ready for Mercy Moms at the Valley Inn... https://www.mercyhighschool.com/news/exciting-changes-for-mercy-athletics

Ha- I guess your " very reliable" source isn't reliable at all - so you stop with the false information you are the spreader of fake news! - https://www.mercyhighschool.com/news/exciting-changes-for-mercy-athletics

Your math doesn't matter.... it's happening - https://www.mercyhighschool.com/news/exciting-changes-for-mercy-athletics

You will only have to do math to add up the loses.

0-14 in the league games.

The fact that you all are getting worked up about this, is RIDICULOUS! Move on

Red carpet will get rolled out welcoming them to everyone’s Senior night.

Ok Mercy mom. We will hand out the tissues and calculators at the Inn. You will need both. You will see some real lacrosse and beat downs. We expect you moms to complain about running up the scores. Like we say in the A, “stop us from scoring, don’t complain”. My bad, you don’t need calculators to add up your scores. You can do it on one hand, and in some cases one finger! Say good bye to playoffs and definitely goodbye to championships. I can wait for your players to start quitting and dropping from the team. You will beg to go back to B.

Spoken like a true Qanon nut case!

Don’t need math when they score less than 4 per game.

Teams are now fighting over who gets Mercy for Senior Day.

You will stop coming when you start hearing the laughs and whispers.

Here is my thought. Mercy is one of the few catholic schools around that in comparison to other schools in northern Baltimore is somewhat affordable (17k). They are the girls version of Calvert Hall. They are also starting (at least based on basketball and soccer) to emphasize sports and if they start providing aid to lax players they could have something special. Even with aid not everyone can afford McD, STP, RPC or BM but a 5-10k package can make Mercy very attractive to a family. Especially in northern BC and Baltimore. 5k-10k at the schools mentioned still leaves the parents forking over 20K+-30k+ in tuition vs 7k-12k at Mercy. The sport of lacrosse is growing and not every player comes from a blue blood family. If Mercy builds their program the right way they could be a contender. Probably not next year, but maybe 3-4 years down the line. Make no mistake they will take their lumps next year.

The issue is that they lost to three of the bottom teams. We have 14 teams in the A and now 15. This is crazy. The A just got that much worse.

They will be the next MdS. They will only win up to 4 games a year. You would think that MdS being in Catonsville would have been able to be more competitive, but they have been at the bottom of the A for a long time.

Record in 2023: 1-14. No playoffs for the next three years. They will go back to the B conference after three years.

Oh! The horror!!!!

Let all 15 make the playoffs. Give team 1 a bye.
2-6 get warm up games. Playoff blow outs would be fun

Not sure how religious mercy is but the reason mds doesn’t pull in the Catonsville crew is due to the fact that they are VERY religious. Tough to market to all families when it is that extreme

Let the Mercy mommies gave their day. Next season will be different for them. No more chips and no more outrageous stats from average players. They will now be on the other end of 20-1 beatdowns.

Not to mention they are competing with Howard. County schools and anyone coming from aa co would choose spalding.

Mercy is located perfectly to scoop up from Owings mills, Towson, Timonium, Perry hall and Hartford co. Not to mention the whole east side of the beltway. A lot of “ifs” but if they put the right people in place they could build a program across all sports. Look at archbishop spalding and the growth they have experienced. Mercy could do the same.

****disclaimer my daughter does not go to Mercy. Her team would probably score 20 before the half. So I have no special interest here.

Mds is not any more religious than mercy, NDP or Spalding.

It will definitely be “horrible” seeing them get pummeled. You will feel it. Your days of celebration have just ended. Welcome to “horror”. We don’t want to hear about running up the score.

They won’t. They will recruit from TLC.

This talk about Mercy is the most immature chatter I’ve seen on here. If they lose they lose. Stop with the comments about average players and TLC and padding stats in an average league. It’s obnoxious

Who cares let it go it’s over they’re coming to the A league see where they are 10 years from now and judge em then

All the insecurity over Mercy coming to the A league is insight to how people feel their team might be beat by a team coming from B.

Complete opposite. We don’t want another bad team. We want a team that can actually catch and throw, and doesn’t play in slow motion.

I can assure you that isn’t the case for some of the schools, including ours. The bigger concern is if you can play pickle ball and handle your booze at 3 in the afternoon before games

I can assure you that no one is afraid of Mercy. Seen them play. Shame on the IAAM.

Best response yet.

Yet you are ok with those same bottom dwelling teams winning 1 or 2 games a year every year?

Maybe it should be like Premier League soccer and every year the bottom 2 teams move down to B and top 2 B teams move up to A.

Nice !

They are afraid. Look at their schedules and see how many out of conference cupcakes they picked up. Now with Mercy they might have to drop a top team from another area. The top teams are always ready to play the best.

They are afraid. Look at their schedules and see how many out of conference cupcakes they picked up. Now with Mercy they might have to drop a top team from another area. The top teams are always ready to play the best.[/quote]


Mercy in A division = 0-for every game

Our goal tenders might fall asleep in the cage! Our defensive players will be so bored that they will be doing Tik Toks.

Mercy in A division = 0-for every game[/quote]

You obviously can’t read. I looked at some of the top teams and they played about 6-8 of the top teams in the country.

Where have you been? We don’t want another bad team. Move the bottom four A teams to B and keep Mercy there too.

Nope. They won’t be in the A conference in three years. Parents will be begging to get back to B.