At the middle school level, their 8th grade team is always very good. The teams get incrementally worse as they get younger.
Could it be that they actually get better as they progress?
Depends on how you count "better." As a squad, yes: The faithful kids from the youth team are gradually sloughed off, placed on the "practice team" and endure things like attending tournaments where they don't even play a minute, or being replaced by "guest players" a month before HoCo starts (or even after HoCo starts). They leave frustrated (because "91 doesn't cut"), and 91 seems to replace them with better talent. So by attrition and addition, yes the "team" gets better, no question.
Do the players selected by 91 in 4th, 5th, 6th grades progress? From any metric, no. Many quit lacrosse entirely and many more drift back to A/B level rec club teams so they can be the stars that T91 promised them they would be.
