Parents/players: please CLICK HERE to register for this year's MSLCA FREESTATE SHOWCASE. The showcase is open to all players in the the 2024, 2025, & 2026 graduating classes.
* Players do NOT need to be nominated in order to participate in the showcase. Any player interested in playing in college should attend the FREESTATE SHOWCASE.
High school and club coaches: please CLICK HERE to nominate players from the 2024, 2025, & 2026 graduation classes for this year's MSLCA FREESTATE SHOWCASE.
The Maryland State Lacrosse Coaches' Association is proud to host the FREESTATE SHOWCASE in June 2023. The MSLCA has hosted this prestigious showcase/tryout event since the late 1990's. The MSLCA FREESTATE event is the longest running lacrosse event of its kind in the nation. For more than 25 years the MSLCA FREESTATE event has been one of the top showcase events in the country. The MSLCA's sole goal of the event is to provide the public and private school boys' lacrosse players and affordable and fair showcase event. Game film from Cruitcast for all Showcase games and the Top44 Games is INCLUDED in the registration cost!!The FREESTATE SHOWCASE is a can't miss event for the summer.
The FREESTATE SHOWCASE is a progressive showcase which will feature two divisions: Rising Senior Division (2024s) and Underclass Division (2025s/2026s). All uncommitted 2024s, 2025s, and top 2026s should attend the FREESTATE SHOWCASE. The MSLCA will provide a team of evaluators to evaluate and rank the players at the showcase and invite back the top-rated players from the player rankings to play in the FREESTATE TOP 44 Games. The FREESTATE TOP 44 Games will feature the top 44 2024s in the FREESTATE RISING SENIOR TOP 44 Game and the top 44 2025s/2026s in the FREESTATE UNDERCLASS TOP 44 Game. The FREESTATE TOP 44 Games will be evaluated and the FREESTATE TOP 22 RISING SENIORS and FREESTATE TOP 22 UNDERCLASSMEN will be announced as the MSLCA ALL-FREESTATE TOP 22 for their respective division.
We will begin to update a list of college coaches who commit to attending the FREESTATE Showcase in the coming weeks.
In 2022 the following colleges had coaches attend the first round, the TOP 44, or both:
Here is a list of colleges that have attended the FREESTATE event in recent years:
Air Force, Army, Bucknell, Delaware, Denver, Drexel, Georgetown, Harvard, Hobart, Jacksonville, Lafayette, Lehigh, Loyola, Marist, Maryland, Michigan, Monmouth, Mount St. Mary’s, Michigan, Navy, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn, Penn State, Princeton, Providence, Richmond, Robert Morris, St. Joseph’s, Towson, UMBC, Virginia, Yale.
Albright, Arcadia, Belmont Abby, Christopher Newport, Drew, Eastern, Elizabethtown, Ferrum , Frostburg State, Hampden-Sydney, Howard Community College, Lebanon Valley College, Limestone, Lynchburg, Lynn, Mary Washington, Marymount, Marywood, McDaniel, Middlebury, Mount Union, Ohio Valley, Pfeiffer, Princeton, Queens, Salisbury, St. Mary's, Stevenson, Trinity, University of the Cumberlands, Virginia Wesleyan, Washington College, Wesley College, Widener College, York College
NEW THIS YEAR:
All players that make the FREESTATE TOP 44 will be automatically put on the MSLCA Pre-season Watchlist for consideration for All-State and the Kelly Award . The players who make the TOP 22 will be named to the MSLCA Pre-season Watchlist as well as being named the MSLCA ALL-FREESTATE TOP 22 teams.
BIG NEWS!!!
