M&D is fortunate to have strong and physically mature girls who are already good at lacrosse come to their teams early. So their teams are particularly strong when girls are young. It is not the coaching or the M&D model. Their coaches aren't any better than other clubs. M&D is a collector of already talented players. And I can't speak to the 29 black team but M&D teams also play to win. They emphasize winning at all costs. They do not play all of their players equally and also have girls sit the bench for entire games against strong teams. They like to win and they play to win. Since most girls on M&D teams are already strong lax players their teams stay somewhat strong in high school. It's in recruiting when M&D coaches are forced to play players equally that the various abilities on the teams start to show and they start to lose games. In high school and recruiting is when other club teams "sneak up" on M&D because they've been forced to develop players as opposed to just taking the best and biggest 5/6/7th graders. if you watched the 23,24 & 25 black coaches play advancing tournaments and NGLL games before recruiting you would see that lots of girls sit while others play almost the whole game. You will see the same as the 26,27, & 28's come through. If the coach stays around the 29's will play the same way. You will see M&D parents shocked when the girls get to high school at how many other good girls and good teams start to pop up. Their games get more competitive and they start to lose games. Same happens to heros.