US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums National Premier Youth Lacrosse League - Spring 2014

Like most clubs, with the Breakers, it depends which age group/grade you are referring to. Several Breakers teams are very competitive while some not so much. Only someone who is not familiar with all age groups and the overall lax landscape would make a comment like the above.

Any teams leaving to play HOCO or any HOCo teams coming to npyll?

It looks like Kooper's is leaving Hoco and founding their own league "maryland premier lacrosse league". Have not heard of any clubs moving to it. Don't know if it is the same one as under amour was supposedly starting.


It is on their site:

http://kooperslacrosse.com/app/index/list/?org=kooperslacrosse.com

What is Hooper's? HoCo is a joke and there are only 1-2 decent clubs who play in it.

Koopers started out by a group that MLC.

dave pietramala's kids play there and his brother is one of the leaders

HoCo had more than 1-2 good clubs (Green Turtle, FCA, Rough Riders, etc) and the Crabs were going to go there full time if NPYLL didn't go grade based

Will crabs have a 2022 team in npyll this year?

It does not look like Crabs are fully on-board with the teas for individual grades. Here is what their website says:
5th grade is 2022 and 6th grade is 2021, but the are writing it up like it is one team.

5th & 6th Grade:

Looking for athletic and energetic players who desire a very competitive lacrosse experience centered around systematic practice and high-end travel lacrosse competition. Commitment Level for this program is intense and additional Rec Teams is not allowed. However playing for your School Team is OK.
Open Tryouts in August and September.

Under 13’s:

Looking for 6th & 7th Graders who are interested in getting more out of their lacrosse experience and are interested in playing with the CRABS during the Fall of 2014 into the Spring/Summer seasons of 2015.

Under 15’s:

Looking for 8th Graders to play the Winter of 2014 and Spring of 2015 in the National Premier Youth Lacrosse League. This team will travel to Long Island and New Jersey to compete against other Top Club Teams in the region. Players with prior “AA” experience make good candidates for this team.

2018’s – The Fantastic Freshman

Calling for Top Notch 9th Graders who want to play Summer ball with some of the best players in the area. Joining the CRABS organization at this level is the best way to get into the club for the high school years. This group represents some of the best Freshman in the State.

2017’s – Super Sophs

The most important recruiting year, our Super Sophs traditionally receive a lot of interest at the various recruiting tournaments. Highly competitive, this team is very hard to make. Returning players must check with their High School Coach to make sure they are going to be available during the Summer’s main events. This needs to be clarified prior to securing your spot.



2016’s – NO TRYOUTS for 2014/2015

2015’s – NO TRYOUTS for 2014/2015
This team will play in the Vail Shootout in Colorado in June 2015

FCA fields good teams. GT used to field good teams. The club was going to fold before a couple people stepped up, but the teams are pretty marginal. Rough Riders is a terrible club. They get killed all the time.

Does anyone know for certain if NPYLL is going grade based this spring?

Come on now, you know Breakers only has one good team. As with Looneys, their 2020 team is good. For some reason there is a huge amount of talent at that age in the Baltimore region allowing Looneys, Breakers, Crabs and FCA to all field fantastic teams

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Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.

Crabs and a couple other clubs were driving reasons for all teams to go grade base now.
Goodbye age based club teams in MD. Thanks to Crabs on encouraging holding back players and Thanks to Howard County Recreation Department for starting a Grade based club league two years ago with MYLA. Both should have a place in Maryland Hall of shame for youth sports.

The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)

agree about 2020. annap hawks, roughriders legit as well. Thunder, Laxworld, Rock may not be AA but still good. FCA, Looney's and now Breaker have decent second teams too.

Dbacks headed to HoCo and Koopers league. Npyll is wide open for 2022

dbacks moving all teams or just 2022?

Was that part of a club wide decision? Most of the Diamondback teams should play in the Hoco, but the 2022s could hold their own in the NPYLL.

It has always been wide open. I don't think the Dbacks have ever won the NPYLL championship.

Its will be wide open in 4 years when your best 3 players are Crabs.

The NPYLL has a lot of great teams and no one team or club ever just shows up to pick up their championship. (even with the Crabs taking everyone's top three players)

Because the Breakers are a non-factor overall.[/quote]

Like most clubs, with the Breakers, it depends which age group/grade you are referring to. Several Breakers teams are very competitive while some not so much. Only someone who is not familiar with all age groups and the overall lax landscape would make a comment like the above.[/quote]

Come on now, you know Breakers only has one good team. As with Looneys, their 2020 team is good. For some reason there is a huge amount of talent at that age in the Baltimore region allowing Looneys, Breakers, Crabs and FCA to all field fantastic teams [/quote]

Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.
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The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s

Like most clubs, with the Breakers, it depends which age group/grade you are referring to. Several Breakers teams are very competitive while some not so much. Only someone who is not familiar with all age groups and the overall lax landscape would make a comment like the above.[/quote]

Come on now, you know Breakers only has one good team. As with Looneys, their 2020 team is good. For some reason there is a huge amount of talent at that age in the Baltimore region allowing Looneys, Breakers, Crabs and FCA to all field fantastic teams [/quote]

Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.
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The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

You are either ignorant or just dont like Breakers or probably both. Last year the Breakers had a true U11 team. Half were first year and half were second year U11 players. They had Zero holdbacks on team but many other teams in NPYLL did. The league was screwed up as it started as age base but went to a quasi age/grade base league to accommodate some teams with to old to play in age(holdbacks).. Breakers played right were they should have as the lost a few and won a few. In tournaments they only played in A for age base not grade base. Any other ignorant things you want to sprew

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Like most clubs, with the Breakers, it depends which age group/grade you are referring to. Several Breakers teams are very competitive while some not so much. Only someone who is not familiar with all age groups and the overall lax landscape would make a comment like the above.[/quote]

Come on now, you know Breakers only has one good team. As with Looneys, their 2020 team is good. For some reason there is a huge amount of talent at that age in the Baltimore region allowing Looneys, Breakers, Crabs and FCA to all field fantastic teams [/quote]

Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.
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The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

Come on now, you know Breakers only has one good team. As with Looneys, their 2020 team is good. For some reason there is a huge amount of talent at that age in the Baltimore region allowing Looneys, Breakers, Crabs and FCA to all field fantastic teams [/quote]

Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.
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The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

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Let me get this straight. Crabs is cheating with their holdbacks, but playing down is ok? How'd breakers 2022 do last weekend?

Breakers 2022 at Autumn Classic:
Beat Madlax A Team 5-4
Lost to Freedom 7-4
Beat Leading Edge 11-1

Crabs 2022 at Autumn Classic:
Beat Apex 16-1
Beat Bethesda 7-4
Beat Madlax B Team 15-1
Beat Freedom 4-3 (Champs)

This week Diamondbacks have games against the Sidewinders, Storm, & PLC.

Dback 2022 3-0 this weekend

Dbacks wins 2022

Storm 18-2
Plc 16-4
Sidewinders 17-0

Breakers are like many of the better clubs, They will have many competitive teams. They have more than 2020 that you claim is good.
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The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

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Let me get this straight. Crabs is cheating with their holdbacks, but playing down is ok? How'd breakers 2022 do last weekend? [/quote]

Breaker hater. They didn't play down. They played in U11A appropriate age bracket. You are ignorant as the NPYLL last year had no grade based leagues. They were trying to make grade based teams and age based teams mesh into a league. The NPYLL allowed 7 players to be to old to be appropriate age( U11). The older teams played U11AA. Breakers had Zero of these players to old to play U11 and a young team, So they played in A Diversion. So hopefully since you need to get this straight as it means so much to you, You straight now jerk..

what tournament?

Not exactly tough competition. When are Diamondbacks going to get back in the ring with some real competition? Heard they are even switching leagues this spring?

Navy shoot out

The Breakers 2022 won it all last year and have a great shot at repeating (despite what the whining diamonbacks say)[/quote]

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

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Let me get this straight. Crabs is cheating with their holdbacks, but playing down is ok? How'd breakers 2022 do last weekend? [/quote]

Breaker hater. They didn't play down. They played in U11A appropriate age bracket. You are ignorant as the NPYLL last year had no grade based leagues. They were trying to make grade based teams and age based teams mesh into a league. The NPYLL allowed 7 players to be to old to be appropriate age( U11). The older teams played U11AA. Breakers had Zero of these players to old to play U11 and a young team, So they played in A Diversion. So hopefully since you need to get this straight as it means so much to you, You straight now jerk..[/quote]

New to this discussion, but the NPYLL rules said that if you played in A, you could have a max of 6 players that were in 5th grade. So no, they didn't play in the division they should have.

That wasn't a Breakers 2022 team. It was a U11 team of mostly 2021 kids playing down in the U11 B division which was for 2022s [/quote]

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

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Let me get this straight. Crabs is cheating with their holdbacks, but playing down is ok? How'd breakers 2022 do last weekend? [/quote]

Breaker hater. They didn't play down. They played in U11A appropriate age bracket. You are ignorant as the NPYLL last year had no grade based leagues. They were trying to make grade based teams and age based teams mesh into a league. The NPYLL allowed 7 players to be to old to be appropriate age( U11). The older teams played U11AA. Breakers had Zero of these players to old to play U11 and a young team, So they played in A Diversion. So hopefully since you need to get this straight as it means so much to you, You straight now jerk..[/quote]

New to this discussion, but the NPYLL rules said that if you played in A, you could have a max of 6 players that were in 5th grade. So no, they didn't play in the division they should have. [/quote]

This is true. My son got picked up in February last year by a team in the A division and he wasn't allowed to play in games unless one of the other 5th graders could not make it that week. He only played in 2 Spring games and then played with them all summer.

Breakers played within the rules and won. Get your excuses ready for when it happens again next year.

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Let me get this straight. Crabs is cheating with their holdbacks, but playing down is ok? How'd breakers 2022 do last weekend? [/quote]

Breaker hater. They didn't play down. They played in U11A appropriate age bracket. You are ignorant as the NPYLL last year had no grade based leagues. They were trying to make grade based teams and age based teams mesh into a league. The NPYLL allowed 7 players to be to old to be appropriate age( U11). The older teams played U11AA. Breakers had Zero of these players to old to play U11 and a young team, So they played in A Diversion. So hopefully since you need to get this straight as it means so much to you, You straight now jerk..[/quote]

New to this discussion, but the NPYLL rules said that if you played in A, you could have a max of 6 players that were in 5th grade. So no, they didn't play in the division they should have. [/quote]

This is true. My son got picked up in February last year by a team in the A division and he wasn't allowed to play in games unless one of the other 5th graders could not make it that week. He only played in 2 Spring games and then played with them all summer. [/quote

You are both full of it and dont know what you are talking about. It was 7 players allowed not 5 first of all. This was more to accommodate the kids that were U11 playing U9, U13 playing U11,U15 playing U13 not the A and AA brackets. Now remember this was only after the NPYLL started last year as a age based league. Once the HOCO starting draining some grade based teams NPYLL tried to keep some grade based teams along with age based teams. The Hawks or Diamondbacks cant remember which, had something on their website about they would figure out where to play but go out by your grade ???
Out of 14 teams only 3 had a grade attached to them which also meant you could have holdbacks , most of the rest were U11 teams. not 4th grade teams.
Many of the teams were a mix of first and second year U11 players. Like in previous seasons the AA was the older teams and the A was the younger teams. The Breakers last year had half second year and half first year ( they only had 14 players total) This year half are still playing 2022 ( as it is all grade base now).
Are you from the either Hawks or Diamondback. They both beat the Breakers in regular season then lost in Championship series to Breakers. If you are get over it. It is U11???
Breakers played where they should have last year in a screwed up league that was both grade/age based league and letting 7 players in who shouldn't have. This year it is easy, it is grade base..no worries about 5,7,9 extra older players.
You guys are whiners . Nice effort acting like a different poster whiner.

So, who wins NPYLL this spring, curious about each age group and division

The teams defending their crowns are:

Crabs 2019
Annapolis Hawks 2020
Bethesda 2021
Baltimore Breakers 2022
Bethesda 2023

Crabs 2021 and 2022 may be moving to NPYLL to shake things up some.

Any other clubs moving in to take on the best? FCA? Looneys? Rough Riders?

Npyll is hardly the best. Keep dreaming

What other league in the DC Baltimore area comes close?