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Lacrosse Mag listed Spallina as No 1 for girls 2025 for fall. Did they play in any good tournaments? Thought they were only playing indoor
with 2024 B teams?

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Ok, I'm going to jump the gun on Lacrosse Magazine and give you my top 20 based on what I have seen/heard/believe. Admittedly I haven't seen all of these teams play, so a lot of it is just guesswork based on past history and overall program strength. This is just for fun, so tell me what I have missed, who I've overlooked and who I have too high:

1. Yellowjackets Spallina (still #1 until someone beats them)
2. Hero's Green (still get the edge over M&D based on 3 straight NGLL Championships)
3. M&D Black
4. Monster Purple (tough team, need to commit less penalties)
5. Skywalkers Blue
6. Pride Red
7. CT Grizzlies Navy
8. LI Top Guns Black
9. Eagle Stix
10. Nxt Black
11. Yellowjackets Lomangino
12. Steps Blue
13. MD United East (Would have been higher but lost to Hero's Green 2026 last weekend)
14. Salt City Snipers
15. LBC
16. Stars Blue
17. Primetime
18. Nems
19. BBL Elite Black
20. South Jersey Select Pink

YJ - Hard to beat a team when they don't play them. Agree Hero's and M&D in top three. Monster and TG both commit way too many penalties. Did
Skywalker's play any top teams this Fall? Not sure that Pride's record this fall is top 10 team.

National rankings huge margin for error in Covid season. MD VA area rankings I will weigh in on.
1-2 Heros/ Mnd
gap
3-6 skywalkers, pride, Nems and LBC
smaller gap
7-10 Stars, Md united, Hoco, Cavlax?
narrow gap
11-13 Mnd Red, Coppermine, Heros white

Funny. Which 2025 has hero’s green 2026 played and lost to?
Agree with top 5. Then md United East is within 6-10.

I agree that Maryland United should be ranked higher than Nems, LBC, Stars, Coppermine, Hoco, etc., but it’s hard to put any 2025 team in the top 10 nationwide after being dominated by a pure 2026 team (no matter how good), especially when MDU has at least one recently reclassified 2024 on the 2025 team.

Who cares about rankings. Lax magazine never even sees the games. Just results. Take your whatever # ranking and show it off at the country club to impress your friends.

Ahhh, MDU parent here (sitting at the country club impressing my friends). I checked and the recently reclassified 2024 on MDU was a school age 2025 who's family thought she should be playing at the 2024 level b/c she is "awesome". (Sound familiar in these forums?) Now an average player on a much better team. MDU 2025 have never lost to the MDU 2024 team scrimmaging at practice.

You absolutely can not accurately rate any team, any grad year, based on this past summer and fall seasons because of the pandemic, where thousands of players across the US didn’t participate for whatever reason. End of story. Do not lose sleep on rankings. You all are being ridiculous.

Who appointed you the grand poobah of 2025 girls lacrosse? Unless you were in hiding it’s safe to say that based on the games played very few if any teams were missing players due to Covid.

I thought we were all grand poobahs here on the forum? What changed?

You had rosters of the 2025 teams in front of you to make the statement that very few if any were missing? Cool!

M&D vs Heros Green - 4 games decided on who wins the last draw and gets the last shot.

I have to think that their head-to-head record since 4th grade has to be 50-50 or close to it. It will be nice to see if some of these girls will get to play together in HS.