Originally Posted by Anonymous
VLC mystique? That is actually very funny. They've had two good HS teams in the past 5 years. For a while in some grades it was easy to poach kids in middle school from other clubs based on rec team friendships or school ties. But that is a hard model to sustain and it is fair to say it didn't sustain at VLC. The lack of resources to hire more non parent coaches for middle school teams and the complete absence of youth teams makes it impossible. I would wager the real competition to Madlax is the revamped Next Level club.


I have an eldest son who played Madlax throughout, a younger son who did both Madlax and VLC and have several friends with kids in the VLC program right now, and your post has several inaccuracies.

VLC has had several very good teams.

2014 - VLC was better than Madlax (we saw it firsthand)
2015 - VLC was much better than Madlax
2016 - VLC was better than Madlax
2017 - VLC is much better than Madlax
2018 - Madlax is the better team (though someone said that team is breaking apart, but no idea if that's true)
2019 - Madlax has a much better team

So in six classes, VLC had a better team than Madlax four times.

Unlike BW, VLC has never poached any kids. Where did you get that?