Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Hi, My daughter is fairly new to lacrosse (she has about 1 year under her belt), she is interested in joining a club team. We live in Northern Virginia. Are there any recommendations for clubs that could be a good fit for a newer player?

There are 2 NVA programs at the top level per say, Pride and Stars. They both have A and B teams, but depending the year, those B teams are still pretty talented/skilled etc. If your desire is to play at the top levels, these are the 2 programs to look into and decide. A few levels down from those 2 are programs from Cardinal, VA Metro and 3d, which are still competitive etc. For HS (assuming this is for 2025), Pride and Capital are the 2 programs as Stars ends at 8th grade. Good luck in your search.

That is odd that Stars ends in 8th grade. Seems like a good program. Why end it at 8th grade and where do these girls go after 8th grade?

Stars was/is always been a Middle school program when it was started. About 2-3 years ago, Stars started the younger program for starting at 3rd grade. However, they were originally a 6-8th grade program. The "traditional" feeder for the top girls was then to go to Capital for the HS years. This year, Stars is starting a 25 team but won't really "compete" per say with the same talent that is trying out for Capital. To summarize, the top Stars girls would traditionally go to Capital, some to the HOCO MD clubs and then others to VA Metro, Cardinal etc.