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my daughter plays for yellow jackets..from may, june and july we had over 24 practices. It all depends on what team and who your coaches are.

Material provided by our Back of the Net announcement thread carried into our Back of the Cage Yellow Jackets forum.

Your right. Only the "blue" teams get the best of the best as far as getting your money's worth. Extra practices, good coaches, and the ability to try out wearing their blue uniform. It is difficult for the other players to prove themselves, specifically in the younger age groups, and be moved into the "blue" program. The older girls seem to be selected more on skill than the younger girls.

My kid played on the Pride, Yellow Jackets and Liberty. Pride= walk on team coached by HS kids, YJ = as long as you can buck up your kid will be put on "a" team coached by hung over college kids and they play their girls down in every tournament, Liberty = disciplined and the most selective, coached by college coaches. I will find out soon if it was all worth it, my kid deciding between 2 D1 schools and had quite a FEW d#3 interested. Her grades are 88-94 overall avg, not a great student but she tries. Thanks for this blog, wish it was done sooner and hope we all halp each other.

Where is the Liberty run out of?

The tryouts for the Liberty are on the Tryouts board with the locations. Is that what you were looking for?

They are really not based out of any certain area- practices are generally held in Nassau County- St. Doms, Mitchel Field and Seaman Neck Park. The woman who runs it is Danielle Gallagher, I believe she is also involved w/ USA Lacrosse? You can google it- legit operation, the organization does not take on everyone who tries out-unlike other clubs who will take anyone with a check. 3 girls later I found out the hard way.

Thanks for this site, good stuff.

The past two years I have seen girls walk onto a team in the spring, never having attended a tryout. That's legit or a girl with a check?

That is due to the fact that some girls quite the teams over winter and there was still space on teams - this was my kid 2 years ago

The past two years I have seen girls walk onto a team in the spring, never having attended a tryout. That's legit or a girl with a check?


Sounds like a Yellow Jackets team....

No it was liberty. Two of my daughter's friends have skipped tryouts and then gone on to get a spot on a team with no tryout. Two years in a row I have seen this happen and I have no ill will towards liberty, just stating a fact.

Do not listen to that Liberty parents who clains all teams are coached bY college coaches. All these clubs are coached by college players or experienced parents/high school coaches assisted by college players.

The Liberty is Manhasset and Garden City based. Yellow Jackets are run by Northport Varsity Coach(play on the Yellow Jackets or do not play High School). The LI Express is run by St. Anthonys coaches, Chaminade coaches and Ward Melville coaches and athletic director.

All these programs are the same, the elite players get treated great and the rest can play as long as you pay, IT IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY.

Commitments from the Class of 2011

These are the players who were part of the Yellow Jackets program who will be taking part at various collegiate programs/

Gold: Kayla Arnold (Bayshore) Fairfield
Gold: Jackie Anderson (William Floyd) Dowling
Gold: Shannon Burns (Mt. Sinai) Bryant
Blue:  Kristin Brent (Sacred Heart) Penn State
Gold: Courtney Chmil (Our Lady of Mercy) Fairfield
Green: Samantha Clyne (East Islip) New Haven
Gold: Chelsea Cook (Bayshore) Denver
Blue: Erin Collins (St John the Baptist) Maryland
Green: Sam Desimone (Connetquot HS)  Drew University
Gold: Rachel Dillon (Mt Sinai) Denver
Gold: Sarah Ehrman (Huntington) SUNY StonyBrook
Blue: Krislyn Engelke (Farmingdale) Syracuse
Blue: Caitlin Gargan (Rocky Point) Notre Dame
Blue: Loren Generi (Bayport) NAVY
Blue: Shannon Gilroy (Northport) Florida
Green: Kassi Grant (Connetquot) New Haven
Gold: Diandra Hanna (Calhoun) Quinnipiac
Gold: Kelly Keenan (Wantagh) Sacred Heart
Gold: Renee Kiviat (Jericho) Binghampton
Gold: Kelly Kuerner(Sachem North) SUNY StonyBrook
Gold: Amber Kupres (Connetquot HS) SUNY StonyBrook
Green: Samantha Clyne (Connetquot) Univ of New Haven
Blue: Jamie Leone (Farmingdale) Fairfield
Gold: Jess Liberty (Ward Melville) Old Dominion
Gold: Demi Lopez ( Shoreham) Sacred Heart
Gold: Casey Madden (St Anthonys) Franklin Marshall
Blue: Megan Marinelli (Northport) Georgetown
Green: Ciara McKeon (West Hampton) Central Connecticut
Blue: Erin Magnuson (Northport) Yale
Blue: Casey McGowan(West Islip) Georgetown
Blue: Keira  McNally (Northport) Oneonta
Blue: Kelly McPartland (Farmingdale) Maryland
Blue: Kelly McPartland (Bellport) Adelphi
Gold/Blue:  Meghan Meritz (Farmingdale) Florida
Blue: Codi Mullen (Shoreham) NAVY
Gold: Corinne Nawrocki (Northport) Bentley
Gold: Scarlett Nawrocki (Northport) Lehigh
Blue: Jess Nelson (Northport) Princeton
Blue: Gabrielle Nesi (Garden City) Vanderbilt
Blue: Jennifer Perretto ( Northport) Ohio State
Gold: Christina Rea (Division Ave HS) ) Old Dominion
Blue: Mikaeala Rix (Garden City) BC
Gold: Danielle Robinson (Northport) SUNY Binghampton
Gold: Heather Russell (OLMC) CW Post
Gold: Catherine Schmidt (BayShore) Davidson
Blue/Gold: Nicole Sockett (Manhasset) Haverford
Blue: Barbara Sullivan (Garden City) Notre Dame
Blue: Caroline Tarzian (Garden City) Georgetown
Green: Jackie Ulanoff (Northport) New Paltz
Gold: Holly Ventimiglia (Pat/Med) Jacksonville
Blue: Kelly Weis (Garden City) Harvard
Gold/Blue: Octavia Williams (William Floyd HS)  Hopkins
Gold: Loren Ziegler (West Islip) Syracuse

These six Yellow Jackets players were named to 2011 U.S. U19 training team. Congratulations to these six young ladies on their achievements.

From the 2011 Blue Team:

Shannon Gilroy, M, Northport, N.Y., Northport, 2011
Kelly McPartland, M, Farmingdale, N.Y., Farmingdale, 2011
Mikaela Rix, M, Garden City, N.Y., Garden City, 2011
Barbara Sullivan, D, Garden City, N.Y., Garden City, 2011

From the 2012 East Team:

Dene' Di Martino, M, Manorville, N.Y., Eastport South Manor, 2012

From the 2013 Blue Team:

Cortney Fortunato, A, Northport, N.Y., Northport, 2013

It was good to see Capital Blue 2013 finally get a chance to play YJ 2013. Capital won the Club Championship this summer and YJ won the u15 championship in Orlando defeating a team of talented rising 8th and 9th graders from Northern VA in the final. Capital defeated YJ 8-2 in the President's Cup this past weekend in Naples.