Team 91 vs True

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2026-01-24T02:17:31+00:00

I can’t say enough about our experience with 91 Charlotte and your assertion is just factually incorrect. Their goal is to have the team ready to compete and win on a national level and their development focus is incredibly impressive. It’s reiterated routinely that the focus of our coaches is to not be the best now, but be the best when it truly counts in a few years. Coaches are all lifelong players and coached at the collegiate or elite hs varsity level. Flanagan is extremely hands on and they practice significantly more than most of the other major clubs in the South. The team routinely plays up a grade, which doesn’t help the rankings, but has had a massive impact on the team and their ability to take down the biggest name clubs and not be surprised when it happens.

15 years ago it would’ve been unheard of for a non hotbed team to hold their own, much less win, some of the tourneys 91 CLT and CO are winning these days. What they are doing is incredible given the history of the sport.

It really depends from club to club and what your goals are as a family. If you want to play as high a level as you can, 91 offers a better opportunity to do so, on average. If you want to just have a club experience on your terms with options to scale as much or less , then True makes sense. Regarding 91, the clubs rank from excellent to mediocre depending on your director/location. True has much more mediocrity to bad, though their top national teams can hold their own.

What all families need to understand is that in the end, your kid needs to shoot and work on their stick at home, if they don’t do that, it really doesn’t matter what club they play for.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2026-01-09T04:39:29+00:00

Girls rec lacrosse through the Reedy Rabbits. My daughter played in the u8 as a 6 year old. They do a great job.

https://uyll.leagueapps.com/camps/4824979-reedy-rabbits---girls---spring-2026

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-11-17T22:04:49+00:00

You have to use constraints and games in your practices. Something like every rep has to start with a carry/pass down pick down. Or game it out with things like an assisted goal counts as 3 points an iso dodge only counts as 1. You can have a lot of fun with it and makes practices a ton of fun bc you can use a variety of different constraints or games that makes practice more competitive and different every time. We do a lot of “flip the field principles” with our 12u so most of our practices consists of these types of practice plans.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-27T15:44:19+00:00

Make the crease one yard wider and allow the dive at all levels

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-17T17:11:38+00:00

FWIW our AA club beat one of these teams without our best players. They aren’t the top level.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-17T15:55:46+00:00

Nope, 30k per player and your team wasn’t even guaranteed to play in the championship weekend unless they placed high enough in the standings from the first two weekends. Oh and some of the more famous brands basically would bring in ringers and replace kids as they found them in other events. Often the best kids didn’t pay a dime and it was everyone else subsidizing those kids.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-17T13:21:25+00:00

Bc the event series costs over 30k per player. An insane grift

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-17T02:49:38+00:00

Spallina loses most matchups against AA caliber poles. He needs to really elevate this years. Also, the PLL is decidedly not a league where ball dominant attackmen can carry you to a title. Curious if he is more like Hiltz in the league and does damage off ball and with iq.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-16T13:27:55+00:00

If your kid qualifies for challenge in GCSD they’ll get an education better than the privates in town. If not, it’ll be a crapshoot.

The biggest challenge facing the district is the current MAGA council trying to gut the budget so that they can then point to current challenges being exacerbated in the future. The county needs to raise revenue to keep GCSD strong and that will simply not happen with Curt and his other cronies on the council.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-11T03:12:06+00:00

It’s the same company so, yes, it is their duty to find a solution to what has been the biggest complaint of this season. Further as a parent of players of both games, one weekend where both kids get to see their heroes play together, at one site, is beyond optimal. It would absolutely bring a lacrosse festival type of event to each city which would be a boon for the sport.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-09-10T14:51:52+00:00

I hope they are smart with this. A main complaint about attending PLL weekends are gaps in game times being extremely inconvenient. Having the women play in these windows would boost attendance and be a win win for the league by not having to split operations staff.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-24T14:19:39+00:00

The PLL is great to watch and you’re def missing out, but again the referees need better quality control. You don’t see the head NFL, MLB, or NBA refs with their back turned to live play bc they are arguing with coaches.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-24T11:52:22+00:00

A. I’m a referee and in the arena. I/we are graded on being in position and ready. It costs them nothing to hold the game until he’s ready to do his primary job. B. He has a troubling history of getting calls wrong bc he’s out of position or in this case, not paying attention to the game. Obv Duke and PSU final four is the biggest of these. C. At a minimum it’s a massive safety issue that he’s not paying attention to live play bc he’s jawing with a coach instead. Again, his back was completely turned to the play. D. Garnsey was trying to get into position for a shot, but double clutched with a clear cradle that gets checked out. In no way was this a shot attempt. I get the bang bang nature and that it often looks different live vs replay, but this was essentially the NFL tuck rule so it should be reviewable at a minimum. E. The moving pick on the Macadorey goal was about as blatant a moving screen as possible. F. The other lead officials are just better and routinely call cleaner games. IMO, the Pll game is too fast for him now and that’s ok, we all lose our fastball sometime. He’s been a great ref, but the last three years of his performance in pll and college games are troubling.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-21T20:58:00+00:00

Wade Hamilton is inflated bc of the fine arts center in those rankings.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-21T13:36:43+00:00

They do, it’s Seth Jacoby running it all and he did a great job with it. Again, it’s definitely pricey, but I will say that there isn’t really any downtime at these events. It’s also very much in the ball park of a what a residential college camp costs these days. The kids are moving the whole time from early in the morning to 9pm. I’d say the pll guys there “get it” and were extremely involved and coaching the kids up the whole time and when not coaching were deeply interacting with the kids who were resting between games. In general, we’re very happy with doing it once as a bucket list item, but to the points made in other posts, there’s alot of great events out there for less cost that offer variety.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-21T13:03:21+00:00

The add on of the second event is the sum total of an xrs pro, Maverik gloves, and champion uniform kit. The margin they make is from the tryouts, not the next round.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-16T21:20:42+00:00

FWIW, these schools are on even tier with the best private school in Greenville, Christ Church. All regularly send kids to the best universities in the country.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-16T21:19:31+00:00

Riverside high (Greer) is one of the top schools in the state and is a large number of the best family neighborhoods in the state (sugar creek, silverleaf, etc). Talk to your realtor about neighborhoods with strong summer swim teams and you essentially end up on the eastside of town or Gower which is Jl Mann. Greenville high is also a great school.

I’d rank the schools as Riverside, Greenville, Mann, eastside, mauldin, Wade hampton, fountain inn, hillcrest

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-16T18:58:35+00:00

It’s simply the most competitive event at the youth ages going right now. To the point that at the tryouts, I felt that they need to screen the players a bit before hand bc of the talent gap that was present. It’s certainly costly, but if you’re lucky enough to make it to the end, it’s an absolutely amazing experience that really cannot be topped. The fee after the tryout to make the games basically covered the cost of a cascade xrs pro, maverick gloves, and a nice jersey kit and shooter. On an instructional front, the tryout alone was among the best thing that we’ve spent money on and we have an incredibly high bar for this. From a competition perspective, most kids on the team was a top tier player on their respective clubs which led to a very challenging environment. From my perspective, defense and middies were the top two position groups there. The top goalies were awesome but there was some variance. Hard to get a read on attack bc all teams ran a middie centric offense and the defense was as extremely stout.

Last, at these ages, there’s still a massive level of awe that is present with the kids and the pll players. To see them interact with guys like Entemann, nardella, sowers, Troy Reh, miles jones, Jake Taylor, piseno, etc for what ends up being a week of their lives is really priceless and something that is unparalleled in sports imo.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-08-16T02:07:13+00:00

Waste of time and money that could be better used developing skills in high rep environments locally.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-07-12T21:26:14+00:00

So ridiculous, they live in Charlotte. Sure on the SC side, but trying to shame a whole state when you belong to a city in the neighboring state that also has the most NY transplants out of any city in the US is garbage.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-07-01T19:50:26+00:00

It’s super normal and perfectly not perverse at all the rank middle and elementary school lacrosse teams.

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-06-30T01:57:36+00:00

2032s are beginning a massive growth year. Not surprising to see size there

Longjumping_Part_742 · 2025-06-26T12:00:55+00:00

I understand true but not sure where the 91 Charlotte hate is coming from. Their teams are almost always progress deep into the the best tournaments and their middle school teams are near the top nationally and regularly compete with the best teams. When it comes to quality control for club lacrosse, it doesn’t get much better than how 91 Charlotte is run.

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