You can absolutely pull kids from multiple programs to form a team. Team PA and Team Mass did this last year I believe.
That would not be a team in my opinion.
You lose the very point of team.
But that doesn’t seem to matter to coaches/parents
It’s totally a team. It might not be a club per se but who cares. It’s what the rules dictate.
Or your club team could join without all the holdbacks.
Honestly, if club lax wasn't 98% about marketing and revenue, elite teams in MD would do this. I have little doubt that Hawks, ML, Crabs would be relatively successful in the WS events without their holdbacks, and without their 1-3 kids each from TX, Richmond, etc. If club lax was really - actually - about "benefits to the player" and "the kids' experience" and "developing players" and so on, clubs would simply do that, and the elite clubs with the most holdbacks, out of state kids, etc would still get some wins in a high profile event.
But they don't do it. I wonder why.
