[quote=Anonymous]It is funny how so many people cry politics on these select tryout events, yet it is many of the same girls selected from two completely different events with zero common connection.
Many of the same "impartial" people are involved with selection for UA and School Girls. The same clubs are represented and very often take care of their own, whether picking their player or not picking someone perceived as their player's competition on the recruiting circuit.
Here are the School Girls coaches for 2018. All these people were evaluators...
LI Metro 1: Matthew Maloney (Mattituck) & Steve Levy (East Islip /LEGACY)
LI Metro 2: Mary Bergmann (Westhampton) & Thomas Carro (Suffolk CC/YJ)
LI Metro 3: John Geagan (Mercy) & David Kotowski (Holy Trinity/ELEVATE)
You really are a loser. "Their player's competition on the recruiting circuit " may be the funniest thing I have seen. Don't know all of the coaches but here are some factual examples of why what you are saying is nonsense. Maloney , well of the 5 players who went to the tryout from Mattituck it looks like 2 made a team, as Mattituck is a decent team not exactly taking care of his own. Steve Levy , well his own child was cut from any team and she is easily good enough to play so again taking care of his own seems like nonsense. Bergman , again had none of her players on the top team and had one who was on top team last year but team 3 this year , again does not seem like taking care of her own. Carro had 1 of his YJ players on top team which honestly seems low for 1 of the if not the top 2019 team on LI.
There are a lot more examples but convincing people that have kids that were cut that politics may come into play its not all politics is impossible.
You are correct, it is impossible. Many parents are delusional and have no idea what they are talking about. If you brought in the coaches from Maryland , North Carolina , Boston College, James Madison , Princeton , Towson, Stony Brook, Florida, Navy and Northwestern to evaluate the crazy parents would still cry foul when their daughter didn't make the team. Don't you know they get it wrong all the time .
Both Under Armour and School Girls are excellent events but Under Armour is more competitive. My older daughter played in both tournaments and the level of play at the Under Armour Underclass event was much
higher and the competition was more intense (At the time UA Underclass had only one division). It was by far the most competitive High School lacrosse games my daughter played in.
Was the selection process perfect? No, there were a few girls left off the roster who were just as strong as the girls who made the team but there were no girls (that made it) who didn't belong on the team. 22 of the 24 girls on that team just completed there freshman or sophomore year in college (two are still in HS). The large majority of those girls are excelling at the college level at many of the top programs (Stony Brook, Florida, North Carolina, Penn State, Syracuse, Richmond, USC, UMass). I believe a few have been working through injuries.
The complainers can whine all they want about politics and how the selection process is rigged but the results do not lie. For the most part, the players who are selected to these teams are also the same players who were offered spots by the best college programs and many more times than not those players go on to star at their respective schools.
Some parents will always have an excuse as to why their daughter wasn't selected or recognized or why they didn't receive offers from Maryland, North Carolina, Northwestern, Boston College etc... There will always be an excuse and they will always say it is all political.
