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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.

Have the team/division alignments been resolved for HoCo yet?

Are they going with 8/8/8/8/6?

Have you seen 4 leaf kids? They drive themselves to games. It’s a joke. Not sure about 3D NE.

Signed up already - cavalry, 3D ne, 4 leaf, rush, stealth, legacy and prime time

3D NE, 2Way, Express North, 4 Leaf and Laxachussets all have Hawks/Madlax holdback numbers from what I’ve been told.

You guys, the LI crowd, can come to us. When you start beating Maryland teams consistently, then we’ll come to you

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.

Play one tournament on age not grade that’s all we ask.

Man the Hawks and Madlax dads are outstandingly annoying boasting about their teenagers.

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

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.

Hawks beat 3D in the fall.

Whose the 8th elite team?

And Express North smacked Madlax . . . But it was the fall so take it for what its worth.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

PREDATORS!!!! Talk of Baltimore

Agreed. BLC and KP will go 0-6, and 1-5, in no particular order. Let them develop in AAA.

KP is in AAA per source

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.

Just heard it’s the Predators that are headed to elite.
detest and doubt all you want, those kids can play.

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.

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.

blahahahahaha. Preds and their usual delusions of grandeur.

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.

Team 91 will fight for elite. They require it for the club’s rep.

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.

Think True Annap went 3-3 in elite last year and finish ahead of Crabs and Next Level so doubt they'll drop.

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

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.