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Does anyone know anything about the Yellow Jackets 2025 team?

This is their first year, website says Joe Spallina is coaching (daughter is in 3rd). Great coach if he can dial it down to an age appropriate level. Should attract all the parents who think they are raising the next Shannon Smith.

Does anyone know anything about the Yellow Jackets 2025 team?

AMEN...contrary to what some money-grubbing director will tell you, little susie wont miss a beat if she doesn't start playing travel for a few years..just think of the 6k in cash that you will save..

Any parent that signs up a 3rd grader for travel lacrosse is a complete lunatic. Take your kid to Disney, not some cow pasture in backwater, Maryland

Yes, wait until your child is in 6th or 7th grade and then she can get placed on the 5th team with other girls that can't catch or throw. Good call. If your girl wants to play lax, then let her play. That team will be very good eventually. The goalie for that team is already playing on the 2025 91 boys team.

Does anyone know anything about the Yellow Jackets 2025 team?

Yes, wait until your child is in 6th or 7th grade and then she can get placed on the 5th team with other girls that can't catch or throw. Good call. If your girl wants to play lax, then let her play. That team will be very good eventually. The goalie for that team is already playing on the 2025 91 boys team.

If this is true her parents need their heads examined.

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If this is true her parents need their heads examined.

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Good goalies are crazy. Gotta come from somewhere. Ive seen this kid she wears no pads just gloves helmet chest protector. Doesnt even shrug when a ball hits her. Just plays it.

thanks Goalie dad.

Lol my daughter is a 2023 that plays attack there Sherlock. She's shoots lax balls not eating them and is happy to leave the running to every dummy who wants to be a middie

be patient...YJ will soon offer a Pre-K division...

This is their first year, website says Joe Spallina is coaching (daughter is in 3rd). Great coach if he can dial it down to an age appropriate level. Should attract all the parents who think they are raising the next Shannon Smith.

be patient...YJ will soon offer a Pre-K division...

I'm hoping so. I've got a 1st grader I drag to every tournament on the east coast. Might as well throw her [lacrosse] out on the field instead of her picking weeds and digging in the dirt ;-)

Why is he not coaching a 91 team, where he has a financial interest? This must confirm to the girls lax community that if one of the 91 directors doesn’t believe in his own organization they must not be a worthwhile club to join, he would not even have his own daughter play there?. Kind of a slap in the face to the 91 girls program.

Why is he not coaching a 91 team, where he has a financial interest? This must confirm to the girls lax community that if one of the 91 directors doesn’t believe in his own organization they must not be a worthwhile club to join, he would not even have his own daughter play there?. Kind of a slap in the face to the 91 girls program.

91 is his brother's program - not sure he has a financial interest other than as a coach on the boys side.

Or 91 doesn't have that age

They don't. They have a 3/4 combo team which is a B team. YJ put together a 2025 A team, a 2024 A team and made a combo 2024/25 B team.

Who else has a 2025 team?

I think the bigger question is who are they going to play? other than fledgling PAL teams which travel clubs LI , Md. NJ have a 2025 team? i dont think any.



This is the first year YJ has a 3rd grade team. I'm sure 91 would have been happy to create one too. The 91 girls program is looked at as sub-par. This has just been confirmed. Would never have my daughter there after seeing this!

91 is his brother's program - not sure he has a financial interest other than as a coach on the boys side.

{quote}I think the bigger question is who are they going to play? other than fledgling PAL teams which travel clubs LI , Md. NJ have a 2025 team? i dont think any. {/quote]

Yeah, thats why I was asking. I don't know of nor can I find any in NY. I suspect the team will be playing in the 4th grade B bracket. So far I haven't really seen many 4th grade brackets outside of Long Island either. I was just curious if anyone knew of another 2025 girls team that I may have missed. They're a dime a dozen in boys but not for girls.

This is the first year YJ has a 3rd grade team. I'm sure 91 would have been happy to create one too. The 91 girls program is looked at as sub-par. This has just been confirmed. Would never have my daughter there after seeing this!

Ummm... So you read something by an anonymous person and make a decision about where your daughter plays? Go away troll, I'm sure they are glad you aren't on their sidelines. And good job breaking down 3rd grade girls into A & B teams. Lol. Keep living vicariously through your kids!

The cesspool of youth club lacrosse now starting at younger ages. When we parents going to wake up? Get your kid a tutor and have them study instead of throwing a ball against a wall. If you are breading a college communications major and a summer lacrosse coach you are on the right path!

If you are breading a college communications major and a summer lacrosse coach you are on the right path!

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

FL6, Blue Devils, E3, Empire, Next Level and YJ have 2025 teams. Not sure who else.

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

Funny, it was actually the most prominent 91 coach breaking the 3rd grade girls into a&b by snubbing his nose at his own organization. He knows 91 girls is a B program and won't have that for his daughter!

That would be a 4th grade team - unless they plan to cheat.

be patient...YJ will soon offer a Pre-K division...

All kidding aside its different strokes for different folks
If your kid wants to play - let her play pal ball or travel if you are so inclined
But keep it in perspective
They are still babies

sorry..there is not a 3rd grade girl (or boy) who decides they want to do travel lax on their own--especially if they don't have an older sibling to follow after!...while I don't doubt that your 3rd grade daughter 'enjoys" travel lax, something tells me that she wouldn't know travel lax from travel tiddlywinks if it were not for a parent pushing her that way..but I may be wrong and your daughter is that much further advanced than most/all other 3rd graders around....but to say she "begged to play" is a bit of a stretch....

I completely agree. The key is fun. If they're having fun, any you can reasonably afford it, do it. Keep it in perspective. I think the stats are something like 1% of youth players play in college, or maybe thats just D1. Regardless if you're looking for a path for college tuition your money would be better invested in a 529c than a travel lax program. If your kid likes competing at a higher level and loves lacrosse then travel is a great way to make that happen.

For our part, my older daughter - older being 3rd grade lol, she enjoys travel lax. She likes the competitiveness and that all the kids try hard which she doesn't get in PAL. Will she even be playing lacrosse in 5 years? Who knows, she's 8. My younger one it remains to be seen whether she'll want to do it. She likes lax but she's not _that_ into it so I would be hesitant to put her into a travel program. The older one begged for it, the little one could give a crap.

Each kid is different, just make sure you and your kid are doing it for the right reasons. Hope that helps.

so your current 3rd grade daughter has been "playing up for a few years now"?...wow...amazing to know how driven she was in 1st grade...remarkable...

Relax a bit, you are in for a long ride ahead. If your daughter can tell the difference between 3rd grad PAL or travel you might just have a prodigy on your hands

Kindergarten actually. And more like luck. One of those right place right time things. I'll tell you about it over a beer some day.



I'm not so sure there is such a thing as a 3rd grade prodigy. There is a difference in the focus of 3rd grade travel kids vs. a good chunk (but not all) of the strictly PAL kids. Its either different interest levels, different maturity levels or both. All of which is likely to change over time. A great 3rd grade player might not be so great in a few years or might not even be playing and a terrible 3rd grade player could be the next Shannon Smith later on in life.

Elevate has a 24/25 combo team

Of course Elevate has a team. They would have a team at the 2027 age group if people would give them their money.

Elevate had promise a year or two ago. I thought that they would be the next big club. My daughter plays on a team from the Maryland area and saw that they were starting to become more competitive. In the last year and a half they just have not progressed. Seems like girls have opted to go elsewhere.

Of course Elevate has a team. They would have a team at the 2027 age group if people would give them their money.

FL6, Blue Devils, E3, Empire, Next Level and YJ have 2025 teams. Not sure who else.

[quote=Anonymous]Is Wright the A team?

Your on the wrong thread Wright is the 2023 B Coach

2023 YJ doesn't have an or b team. They have 2 teams. Technically wrights would be the a team, as they were better. Next year who knows?

2023 YJ doesn't have an or b team. They have 2 teams. Technically wrights would be the a team, as they were better. Next year who knows?

Thorn is the A team
Wright is the B team

Only a parent from a B team would ever say that there is no A or B team just two teams. They are both very good, and as another poster mentioned, lots can change over the next year or two, but let's call it what it is.

Thorn's team was supposed to be the A team. Since the Thorn team has lost to the Wright team two years in a row it is clear which is in fact the better team. You lose once,
you had a bad day. You lose twice there is no need for further discussion.

Thorn's team was supposed to be the A team. Since the Thorn team has lost to the Wright team two years in a row it is clear which is in fact the better team. You lose once,
you had a bad day. You lose twice there is no need for further discussion.