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Ehh everyone loves to detest on the True program.. money grab bla bla bla (all clubs are money grabs btw.) Solid staff, great support for players and coaches, ample opportunity to get better. Specialized position skills training offered outside of practice times. Great option if you’re in the Annapolis area and don’t want to deal with the egos that go along with the Hawks players, staff, and parents. I’d say less than 10% of the true players could play for the Annapolis Hawks. Those egos have been earned with a decade of superiority. Ironically enough there is plenty drama and ego in the true program, just without the winning. The only thing that they are earning is W-2s for their coaches. Every club is a money grab. You are paying for a chance for your kid to grow, get noticed, and hopefully play at the next level one day whether it be D1, D2 or D3. The biggest money grabs are the National teams. Absolutely outragious prices just to play in a tournament or a clinic. On another note....if you are a KP or Blue Claws parent are you moving your kid after this season knowing they have no teams after 8th grade? Blue Claws have a ‘25 team. So it looks like they might be offering hs teams. Not sure about KP. I have 2 kids who just went through this somewhat recently. One is a hs Jr, and the other is a freshman. From what I saw, there is no reason to move in 8th grade. There are a lot who reshuffle at freshman year. And the roster sizes open a little too. Plenty of options out there for hs freshmen.
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Ehh everyone loves to detest on the True program.. money grab bla bla bla (all clubs are money grabs btw.) Solid staff, great support for players and coaches, ample opportunity to get better. Specialized position skills training offered outside of practice times. Great option if you’re in the Annapolis area and don’t want to deal with the egos that go along with the Hawks players, staff, and parents. I’d say less than 10% of the true players could play for the Annapolis Hawks. Those egos have been earned with a decade of superiority. Ironically enough there is plenty drama and ego in the true program, just without the winning. The only thing that they are earning is W-2s for their coaches. Every club is a money grab. You are paying for a chance for your kid to grow, get noticed, and hopefully play at the next level one day whether it be D1, D2 or D3. The biggest money grabs are the National teams. Absolutely outragious prices just to play in a tournament or a clinic. On another note....if you are a KP or Blue Claws parent are you moving your kid after this season knowing they have no teams after 8th grade? Blue Claws have a ‘25 team. So it looks like they might be offering hs teams. Not sure about KP. I have 2 kids who just went through this somewhat recently. One is a hs Jr, and the other is a freshman. From what I saw, there is no reason to move in 8th grade. There are a lot who reshuffle at freshman year. And the roster sizes open a little too. Plenty of options out there for hs freshmen. Accurate and key points: 1) Summer before 9th grade is the time to leave 2) Slightly more spots than MS years (rec teams go away but numerous 9-12th only teams show up) 3) KP held tryouts for 2025s and 2024s last summer but the (only slightly verified) story is that at least the 2025s were beamed up to the True Baltimore mothership. 4) Not sure if KP is actually running a 2025 or 2024 team, based on #3. I don't know why clubs WOULDN'T run high school teams honestly. They rarely practice (no more 4x per week), rarely play (no more HoCo), and cost twice as much as MS teams. The "cost" morphs into "paying for access" to coaches who will coach you (correctly this time, unlike the dad coach you had at 91 or Zingoes since 3rd grade) or make a call on your behalf to a HS or college coach.
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Have the team/division alignments been resolved for HoCo yet?
Are they going with 8/8/8/8/6?
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Dear Maryland area teams,
If your team is looking to play the best teams in the north east the tournament to join to see the most of them will be the Tristar Lax Clash, so far 3D NE and 4 Leaf are signed up, you’d have to imagine Express and express north will be there for sure as it’s an express event, and all the other too Long Island teams SHOULD be there (91, legacy, S2S, rush, rebels, turtles & igloo), and I’m sure others from New England/Jersey will be there! You bring the old bay and crab cakes and we’ll bring the bagels, and BECSPK
Yours Truly, Long Island Dad Have you seen 4 leaf kids? They drive themselves to games. It’s a joke. Not sure about 3D NE.
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Signed up already - cavalry, 3D ne, 4 leaf, rush, stealth, legacy and prime time
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3D NE, 2Way, Express North, 4 Leaf and Laxachussets all have Hawks/Madlax holdback numbers from what I’ve been told.
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Dear Maryland area teams,
If your team is looking to play the best teams in the north east the tournament to join to see the most of them will be the Tristar Lax Clash, so far 3D NE and 4 Leaf are signed up, you’d have to imagine Express and express north will be there for sure as it’s an express event, and all the other too Long Island teams SHOULD be there (91, legacy, S2S, rush, rebels, turtles & igloo), and I’m sure others from New England/Jersey will be there! You bring the old bay and crab cakes and we’ll bring the bagels, and BECSPK
Yours Truly, Long Island Dad Have you seen 4 leaf kids? They drive themselves to games. It’s a joke. Not sure about 3D NE. You guys, the LI crowd, can come to us. When you start beating Maryland teams consistently, then we’ll come to you
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Signed up already - cavalry, 3D ne, 4 leaf, rush, stealth, legacy and prime time We see those teams regularly and not one of them has been able to beat Madlax or the Hawks. The only team relevant up there is 91.
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Dear Maryland area teams,
If your team is looking to play the best teams in the north east the tournament to join to see the most of them will be the Tristar Lax Clash, so far 3D NE and 4 Leaf are signed up, you’d have to imagine Express and express north will be there for sure as it’s an express event, and all the other too Long Island teams SHOULD be there (91, legacy, S2S, rush, rebels, turtles & igloo), and I’m sure others from New England/Jersey will be there! You bring the old bay and crab cakes and we’ll bring the bagels, and BECSPK
Yours Truly, Long Island Dad Have you seen 4 leaf kids? They drive themselves to games. It’s a joke. Not sure about 3D NE. You guys, the LI crowd, can come to us. When you start beating Maryland teams consistently, then we’ll come to you Play one tournament on age not grade that’s all we ask.
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Man the Hawks and Madlax dads are outstandingly annoying boasting about their teenagers.
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3D NE and Express North are legit. Both teams would be a toss up vs Madlax and Hawks . . . and they would lay a beat down on the rest of the DMV teams. To say 91 is the only relevant team north of MD is just not accurate.
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3D NE and Express North are legit. Both teams would be a toss up vs Madlax and Hawks . . . and they would lay a beat down on the rest of the DMV teams. To say 91 is the only relevant team north of MD is just not accurate. Agreed
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Have the team/division alignments been resolved for HoCo yet?
Are they going with 8/8/8/8/6? I don't think there's another meeting until next week..........I'd be happy to be wrong about this, so fire away. 8/8/8/8/6 is a good look for this age group. 8/10/8/12 (last numbers I heard on the practice sidelines lol) seems less ideal.
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3D NE and Express North are legit. Both teams would be a toss up vs Madlax and Hawks . . . and they would lay a beat down on the rest of the DMV teams. To say 91 is the only relevant team north of MD is just not accurate. Agreed Hawks beat 3D in the fall.
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Whose the 8th elite team?
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And Express North smacked Madlax . . . But it was the fall so take it for what its worth.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state?
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? I heard the 8th elite team is 91.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? I heard the 8th elite team is 91. 91 NY maybe. 91MD is made up of last year's kids who went 1-6 in AAA, a bunch of new kids from AA 1-6 Swarm, and some kids from 0-7 AAA HoCo Pink. For the kids sake I hope they are not going elite.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? I heard the 8th elite team is 91. Maybe they throw VLC in bc it's mostly the Cavs team they tried to put there a year ago. Brutal way to start a new team but I guess it will build character.
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If that’s the case they should just go 7 teams. Holding to 8 teams makes no sense if that last team can’t compete (Team 91) or doesn’t want to be there (Kelly Post).
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If that’s the case they should just go 7 teams. Holding to 8 teams makes no sense if that last team can’t compete (Team 91) or doesn’t want to be there (Kelly Post). Should actually be 6 teams.
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The eighth team is KP. People are just starting notIntelligent rumors. It is the 7 from last year plus KP in elite.
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The eighth team is KP. People are just starting notIntelligent rumors. It is the 7 from last year plus KP in elite. Ok how about the rest of the divisions?
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And Express North smacked Madlax . . . But it was the fall so take it for what its worth. We’ve already been down this road— literally half of Madlax starters were not there. Football take precedence in the fall. The two times these teams played in the summer with full rosters, it was not competitive— something like 9-2 and 7-3.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? PREDATORS!!!! Talk of Baltimore
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If that’s the case they should just go 7 teams. Holding to 8 teams makes no sense if that last team can’t compete (Team 91) or doesn’t want to be there (Kelly Post). Should actually be 6 teams. Agreed. BLC and KP will go 0-6, and 1-5, in no particular order. Let them develop in AAA.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? PREDATORS!!!! Talk of Baltimore Oh no not that again. Predators will be fat and happy at AA, hope their coach is smart enough to put them there. What a disaster that would be at elite.
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Just heard it’s the Predators that are headed to elite. detest and doubt all you want, those kids can play.
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KP's website lists two teams for 2028, but not sure how current it is. If true, it's possible they have one in Elite and one in AAA.
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KP's website lists two teams for 2028, but not sure how current it is. If true, it's possible they have one in Elite and one in AAA. Their 2nd team is a middle-pack A team. Good kids whose #2 sport is lacrosse. Not headed into AA or anywhere else. Rumor was that when 8 kids showed up to True Baltimore's tryouts (True has an "ownership interest" in KP now), True co-opted the KP #2 team for fall tournaments, so I am curious whether their A-level team is branded True or KP for the HoCo season. Guess we'll see soon.
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Whose the 8th elite team? That's the mystery. Rumor mill is that both KP and Claws refused to go to Elite but if that's true, somebody else stepped up. Can't imagine it was HLC, and FCA White would make zero sense. Anybody else from last year's lower AAA would be......a bad look. Maybe some team from out of state? PREDATORS!!!! Talk of Baltimore Yes, they talk about how bad the NY team is and wonder why someone would try to open the same in a crowded landscape. Of all the brands to go under Preds is the bottom of the barrel. SMH.
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Just heard it’s the Predators that are headed to elite. detest and doubt all you want, those kids can play. blahahahahaha. Preds and their usual delusions of grandeur.
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Anyone from VLC know if they are going to try elite. Defense is pretty good. But will have hard time scoring goals. Bet they are in elite next year so I could see them trying it.
Also I’m not sure why people are so sure it is a 6 team league. Who has True Annapolis beat recently that suggests they will be competitive in elite? I think it is maybe a 5 team league with BLC, True, and whoever is the eighth team in a different class.
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Team 91 will fight for elite. They require it for the club’s rep.
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KP's website lists two teams for 2028, but not sure how current it is. If true, it's possible they have one in Elite and one in AAA. Didn't they field just one AAA team last year? I think that team did well in AAA, but it seems unlikely that they recruited and trained an entire second team that is roughly as good in a year.
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Anyone from VLC know if they are going to try elite. Defense is pretty good. But will have hard time scoring goals. Bet they are in elite next year so I could see them trying it.
Also I’m not sure why people are so sure it is a 6 team league. Who has True Annapolis beat recently that suggests they will be competitive in elite? I think it is maybe a 5 team league with BLC, True, and whoever is the eighth team in a different class. Think True Annap went 3-3 in elite last year and finish ahead of Crabs and Next Level so doubt they'll drop.
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3D NE, 2Way, Express North, 4 Leaf and Laxachussets all have Hawks/Madlax holdback numbers from what I’ve been told. True story. And on top of that some of these teams teach kids to play dirty. 4 leaf being top offender so watch your back boys
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by 8th grade elite will have 10 teams I predict
VLC Crabs 91 Hawks FCA ML NL True Annapolis BLC/DCE
And someone else who probably won’t win a game but they will need a tenth. Your guess is as good as mine who that is.
For this year though I heard it’s 91 as 8th team.
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