Show up or shut up. This tournament is run by the governing body of lacrosse nationally. Why not participate? If you do not show, your opinion is without merit. Come play and let the score do the talking otherwise it just rings hollow. This tourney is also age based and not grad. year so perhaps that is the real reason those teams stay away. It cannot be money or the travel, these programs have/do both for other events. It also supports growing the game around the country which is the best reason to go and support the cause.
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We don't have to�..LOL More of our girls get recruited to Div. 1 programs because we are the hotbed for lacrosse. Isn't that the goal of the club lacrosse scene, to get recruited. Yet your director chose to ignore a major recruiting event how many of your girls missed out???? They could of been seen, but your director took you guys to Colorado, with few college coaches. You have good players but more of our girls play college lacrosse at a higher level than yours does. The only reason you traveled to Colorado was so your director could win and use it as a marketing tool o bring more girls into her program. You New Yorkers are notoriously Fair Weather fans, parents are probably flocking to her tryouts since she won, "Gold, Silver and Bronze" with out playing a mid-atlantic team. Joke
[/quote]More of your girls get recruited to D1 schools? Lets look at the numbers as provided by lax Power.
2015 age group
Maryland 142
Virginia 49
total 191
all of N.Y. 186
Granted the total number of the 2 combined states exceeds the total of N.Y. but lets be real we're even if nothing els [/quote]
There you go using Convenient stats, wasn't talking about all of NY, talking Long Island. Take upstate NY out of that number and it's closer to 80 girls from Long Island. Most of the upstate teams are smart enough to not go to the U15, but rather play in front of college coaches. Ha, even the upstate parents are smarter than you guys. [/quote]Actually, it's 102 gels from L.I. alone thats 53 more than the whole state of Virginia, and only 40 less than that incredible "hot Bed" known as the entire state of MARYland, and we're about half your size and population with no major city. Looks tike the true hot bed is with the Lawn guy landers [/quote]

Here we go again with not letting facts get in the way of truth. The population of LI is 8 million. The population of MD is 6 million. As far as LI having no major cities, that probably helps LI's numbers since it is suburbs. Being that lax is a upper-middle class, white dominated sport, I'm not sure the inner city kids of Baltimore add much to the recruiting numbers.