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Seven teams make the playoffs in division. Not very hard to make the playoffs. Small schools practice all year around. Big difference!

The demographics of Long Island are changing. The talent pool very different from ten years ago. Texas is becoming the hot bed after Maryland.

I think NJ would like a word w you; obviously, you know nothing about girls HS lax

🤣 Thank’s for your input dad. Only difference is that some schools have 4-6 D-1 level players, others have 1-2. Sufffok A has 4 good teams that would compete well with any other LI public

Demographics for NJ changing too. I didn’t mean any offense but talent is coming from a much broader area. As to knowing about HS lacrosse I do track all D1 and D3 players coming out of HS for the NCAA. It’s my post retirement job.

Of course demos are changing but look at top 25 girls HS teams and you’ll see why NJ is a hotbed for GIRLS (boys HS in NJ is another story)

I can’t dispute NJ’s quality of HS programs. I’m also looking at raw numbers. NY/NJ metro area still has top notch talent, it’s just less in raw numbers than ten years ago.

St Louis is a huge growth area, as is Indianapolis. Texas as well, which helps that Charlotte North came from Dallas. It’s really, graphically speaking, a flattening curve line spreading where the players are coming from.

An important aside is the 2028 Olympics. This version of the game is not the game we play in the US. It’s a middie game. It will be very interesting the route they go picking the team.

Good luck in your spring championships.

No love for goalies? Dont sleep on rachel hall hailing from outside of H-town

An important aside is the 2028 Olympics. This version of the game is not the game we play in the US. It’s a middie game. It will be very interesting the route they go picking the team.

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It's really unfortunate because it's a bastardization of the game....but I suppose you have to take what you can get with hope over time we get the real game into the Olympics

The game is certainly growing, but would put Florida, Colorado, and California ahead of Texas as far as emerging "hotbeds".

As we get close to the end of the season, SE girl has separated herself as the best player in Suffolk. Wow! Hope she gets the recognition she deserves and politics don’t real they’re ugly head luke they have in past!

SE kid put up her numbers against sub par competition......take a look at the schedule. She is phenomenal player, but to say she is head and shoulders above other top players is just not accurate

They all play the same teams. Pretty sure all the top goal scores put up big numbers against weak teams. She is also not “head and shoulders” above some others. However, has shown that she is deserving of the top player in Suffolk county this year. Only one other that is in the running who lost draws badly whenever she went against good competition.

Spot on, all of it.