Same thing happening in West Islip. Some grades are better than others as far as doing some tournaments, usually in the spring. Kids playing for clubs all over. They still must make committment to J.V./Varsity team first though.
Originally Posted by Anonymous
3village has a great program for in-house and PAL. They nmade a decision that if a child wanted to play travel lax on the 3v team, the child could not also participate on one of the elite teams. Their slogan--one town one team.

That worked for many years, however, the last few years have seen large defections from some of the younger teams. The current 6th, 7th and 8th grade 3v travel teams have been decimated. Kids and coaches have left the program to participate in the elite world--gladiators, express, 91...

The result is that these 3v teams cannot compete in the A bracket of tournaments any longer. they are now plauying in B brackets or town team only tournaments.

For the older grades-9th, JV and varsity-those teams were able to keep most of their kids and are still playing at a very high level.

So what worked for a long time, is no longer working. change has come to this sport and the town teams must evolve or lose in every toutrnament...

that said, at the HS level for school ball, the best kids in 3v get to play regardless iof which travel team they are plauing for...