US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Girls 2030-5th Grade Fall 2022/Summer 2023

If your daughter can handle the coaching style, TG by far.

Observations from tryouts.

Tried out for:

YJ Suffolk
Top Guns
Liberty
Jesters

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YJ Suffolk- 1 day 2 hours about 90+ girls…strange setup where the A team wore blue pinnies, B team wore yello pinnies, new girls wore red pinnies. Seemed like only B team could only scrimmage and do drills with the A team. new girls were generally nudged to play with the B team and weren’t necessarily permitted to play the A team. No to much defense was played. All shots on top of the crease on top of the goalies. Not sure what they did for the goalies to tryout. Making 3 teams this year. Tryouts finished early with about 30 min left

Top Guns- 1 day 2 hours about 80-90 girls pretty transparent tryout. Speed test/ race. About 5 Small sided games. After each small sided game, girls were filtered to other fields. by the end 1 field pretty much had the A team. really had to be special player to shake and bake as defense was pretty good.

Jesters- 2 days 2 hours each day about 70-80 girls…drills and small sided games. Same type of filtering where 1 field ended up with the A team players Good defenses. Players were pulled to the A team field. Felt Massapequa players favored…it is what it is…. All works out at the end.

Liberty 2 days 90 min each day..about 60-70 girls…drills small sided games. Girls filtered to A team field… too hot for tryouts back to car with AC

-Most tryouts seems pretty fair except YJ
-heard of a lot of politics involved for certain teams. Girls still on A team based on 3rd grade performance… basically legacy admission to A team bc older sister played or something similar.
- legacy admission bc favoritism towards hometown of club I.e. Massapequa
- Top guns seems to be the only one with a goalie program. Really took time with the goalies
- YJ- everyone at tryouts including the new girls could make top guns, jesters, liberty A team. Did not see a ball dropped or a passed missed.
- lax on Long Island continues to be strong. 70-90 girls at each tryout

If your daughter can handle the coaching style, TG by far.

If you have the option of both, you choose the one where you’ll get more playing time. You can outsource training.

Other things to look for:

1. Are they playing in tier 1 tournaments love love lax, lax for the cure etc. Tournament that D1 college coaches attend

2. club directors relationship with college coaches (this is why I think Liberty will not go away.. DG connections for top 10 lax college coaches and all the Ivy coaches through the years…also think this is why Jesters made the partnership with liberty. Access to the Rolodex) by default you’ll see this by where the clubs college commits are going. Anyway think TG has the relationships here while Jesters is catching up which is why I say playing time

3. Training