Have a daughter who graduated from college last year and a freshmen in high school now . Have been following this web site and the school girls tournament for some time . Back in the day everyone complained that YJ and CR ran school girls and were biased in their selections etc and that the teams did not win the tournament every year as a result, that said cannot remember a year when a LI team did not make at least the finals .
Fast forward to now .( My freshmen made team 3 about where she belongs ) The politics in the selection process are worse than ever and there were kids on team 1 that anyone who has been around LI lacrosse long enough knows did not belong( side note CR and YJ are no longer involved).Several teams were over represented . Sorry but you have a player who has been considered 1 of the best players in the country in the 2018 age group for some time now who gets cut while a player from a below average team who is not good enough to play midfield on that team ( has 1 goal 0 assists on season ) make team 1 as a midfielder , of course her coach was at the tryouts . The result is the first time in a long time no LI team makes the finals.
Yale was a poor venue for this event .