who moves up? who moves down? who is new?

North Kitsap lacrosse's program recently dissolved, none of the players were showing up and the coaching staff wasent either, There middle school team is still around though

Did they decide who's moving up and down at the June meeting or whatever?

Anyone know if they're getting a team for next season?

WHSBLA past meeting minutes state that PCCS (Providence Claasical Christian School) in Lynnwood is looking to start a program for 09, maybe that is the "Lynnwood split" that is rumored.
Meeting minutes also indicate that Archbishop Murphy has interest in having a team for next year.

I've heard the idea of regional play being kicked around and really don't like that idea. Having Mercer Island, Issaquah and Bellevue play against the likes of Sammamish, Eastside Catholic and others would not work. You don't learn the game if you never possess the ball. You would be setting up blow-outs that neither team benefits from. It's not to say D-2 teams can't get to where D-1 teams are, but forcing the issue prematurely will hold everyone back. I'm sure it's not easy to recruit to a team that is getting blown out game after game.

I advocate three divisions. Teams that are well established, have the financial resources to run a top notch program, have access to fields, have school support (not all school districts support Lacrosse) and have a history of high quality play are D-1. D-2 would be for those transitional teams that aspire to D-1 but don't have all they need to be there and be consistent. They may be relatively new, they might still be developing their feeder programs, etc. Good solid programs that just need a little more to get to the next level. Maybe this is where Northshore, Seattle Prep, Nathan Hale and Redmond belong right now. Maybe Lynwood and Roosevelt would do well here as well. A third league, D-2a would be for start-ups, programs that haven't been able to recruit strongly, teams that have shown difficulties in keeping their numbers up. This could be a more developmental league. This way, teams would be playing on a level playing field and the competition would be strong within the leagues.

Non-school soccer is like this. You have Select, club select, and recreational leagues. It seems to work just fine. The numbers continue to grow at all levels in soccer.

lynwood and roosevelt should both move down, it's not fair to the kids to have to play teams which honestly are just alot better and never have a real shot a success. It's more fair to the players on those two teams to be in D-2. As for moving up the only team that should do so is Prep, if at all. Prep put up a couple wins against D-1 opponents early and big numbers against most D-2 opponents. Congrats to NorthShore on winning the title, b ut i don't think they can roll with the teams in D-1, Prep even after losing has a much better shot in D-1 and that's just the simple truth, and to the other comment, it is a serious, serious long shot to say northshore would make playoffs no doubt in D-1, serious long shot

so final say:

Prep to D-1
Roosevelt to D-2
Lynwood to D-2

thats it

Except in the really unusual situation (heavy losses of seniors like Tacoma suffered last year), the winner of D-2 should always move up. In the case of Northshore this year, they are losing few seniors, and have the core of their team coming back. Plus, you need to look at more than just this past year. The previous year they were something like 14-2. They had a huge plus/minus in scoring. They have a strong feeder program. What do they have to gain staying in D-2? Nothing. They should step up to the challenge and compete in D-1. I have no doubt they'll be able to make the playoffs.

Seatle Prep should move up as well. I don't think they should have moved down in the first place. They had 4 wins in D-1 before they moved down. I don't think that's enough reason to move down. Prep is a young team too, so they should be able to do well in D-1.

Redmond is still forming as a club, and they don't have the numbers yet to move up. They played their JV games this year with half their players swinging between the two. As they gain in numbers, I see them moving up in another couple of years. Plus Redmond will have one final split in a couple of years when Lake Washington High School splits off. So they should wait before moving up.

I think prep should move up and roosevelt down and possibly lynwood. Northshore is a definate possibility but i think they might struggle. But then again that was said when Puyallup was going to move up and struggle and to most peoples suprise basically made it to playoffs and only got beat by one by most other teams.

Regional conferences seem to be a popular idea that could happen instead of D1 and D2. However, if the current system stays (D1-D2), Roosevelt will move down and Lynnwood should as their whole team was seniors and they still sucked. From D2, Seattle Prep should move back up as they return almost everyone and they have much better coaching this time around. Northshore could look into it, unless Woodinville starts a program. Redmond would be a possibility, but I think they will stay down for at least another year or two due to heavy graduation losses this year (Burke, Olin, etc.).

honestly no one should move up. Roosevelt and Lynnwood, two teams that never should have moved up in the first place, go back down. Or they should combine both leagues together and create conferences bases on on region. Seattle (city) teams, eastside teams, northern teams, etc.