STJ Girls Travel Lacrosse Teams

Stars Lacrosse runs throughout the year:

• Fall Season: late August-December
• Winter Season: clinic offerings + winter league
• Spring Season: March-July for teams participating in the spring league
• Summer Season: ends in mid-July

*Our fifth-grade team practices and competes in the Fall and Summer. They will start up practices in the late Spring to allow players time to play recreational lacrosse. Club participants are expected to make all practices and tournaments.

Scheduling Conflicts: We encourage our athletes to play other sports, and understand that if there is a conflict with a school sport, their school commitment comes first. 

Stars aims to provide three coaches per team who have played the sport and love working with middle school girls.  Many of our coaches have played lacrosse in college and have coached at the youth, middle school, high school and college level.  

In some cases, there may be a coach assigned to a team who is a parent.  We aim to provide consistency for the girls especially since our program runs all year.  A Stars Director is present at most practices and tournaments and we strive to know each player in the program. We plan to have two coaches per team at all tournaments.

Age Groups: Players play with their respective age group and compete with their grade year. There have been a couple exceptions made when there is no goalie in the grade.

Divisions: From the fifth grade and up we provide two teams per age group. At the third and fourth grade level, if we have enough players there will be two teams.

We split the players up to provide opportunities for the players to develop and learn the game at their appropriate skill level. Players will be placed on the blue team (very competitive) or the black team (competitive) and will remain on the same team for the full year.  We try to reassess and give every player equal opportunity.

Stars practices are primarily held at The St. James. We also hold practices at St. Stephens St. Agnes, Episcopal High School, and GMU.

We attend three to four tournaments and a playday in the fall and three to four tournaments in the summer.  We try to send our teams to the most competitive tournaments and some teams may travel to New Jersey, while others will be in the Maryland area.

The aim at STJ Stars is that every athlete plays at least half a game.

Practice attendance is required if the girls want to play well as a team. If a player is continually absent from practices she may miss a rotation of her playing time in the next tournament.

If teams compete in an advancing tournament, all players may not get equal playing time.   

We provide a platform for our athletes to be seen and evaluated by college coaches. Our High School teams will participate in top recruiting tournaments. We provide recruiting seminars and assistance to the athlete in developing a comprehensive plan. Our coaches work with the players to set goals and help them achieve their dreams.