This is not true, all this [Censored] is from a disgruntle parent for some reason against talk of Baltimore. Why come on here and tell these tall tales? What is motivation? We all know, you are just another lacrosse person whose hopes and dreams are slowly fading away as you realize your son will never be that player
You can ask any parents of the 30+ players who've left the team in the last 18 months and they'll repeat it almost word for word. Be my guest.
Former Pred parent here. Can confirm the coaching and program are bottom feeders with no class. If you could post pictures on BOTC I’d give my anonymity away to send the pics of our former Preds coach (rarely had 2, never had 3) on the sideline ON HIS PHONE during the game. The constant texting was bad enough but one game he took a call…..no it wasn’t an emergency. Turns out it was club director. How great is that. Guy calls his coach right in the middle of the game. Stay away from this organization. Bad people. Confirmed with friends in NY that this is how they do things….live and learn but where there is smoke there is fire and this board is clearly on fire about how bad the people are. Forget the team, the whole organization is rotten.
This is same guy posting as multiple parents. Preds are better than most Clubs. Sorry you had a bad experience , maybe look inward instead of blame game. But then that would cause you to realize , little Johnny just isnt up to being a player to stroke your ego.
Definitely not one guy, because I'm one of them, and I'm not the other. As I posted earlier, you have a minimum of 60 parents (not counting re-married parents, the coup de gras of lax parenting in Towson). Pretty easy to find one, three, or ten of them who will back up any of it without batting an eye. You can believe me or not, it's fine.
Where I disagree with the other Preds parent is that from what I saw, the NY Preds program is just fine (not elite, but fine), especially at the HS level. I mean it's a well established club in a lax hotbed, it should be "Fine." And I'll go even further and tell you that my interactions with 2027 and 2029 MD Preds parents and coaches were 100% positive. The MD club has a very weak culture, and it's very much like each Preds team is its own club, there's no consistent coaching, workouts, plays, or schemes that are sent down from the Directors. So in some years (2027 and 2029 at least), you have good culture and a team of kids who love to play together, and in some years (2028), the Club just hasn't been able to get it together.
The 1/3 of kids who stayed from last year are a good mix of starters, backups, and bench warmers and the club filled the rest of the roster with kids from FCA White, Zingos, and True. They will do just fine at AA, and probably will win a game or two at AAA. For us, it was a matter of how can you claim to be developing kids when you have 1 coach at practice and games, a 28 man roster, and easily 1/3 of practices are canceled (closer to 2/3 of practices in 2021-2022).
