r/lacrosse • u/Desperate-Macaron225 • Apr 27 '26
Built free camp & club directory for girls lacrosse — would love feedback
I'm a girls' lacrosse mom in MD, and I recently built out girlslacrosseclubs.com — a free searchable directory of girls lacrosse camps and clubs organized by state (check out the camp guide specifically). Think of it like a Yelp for girls lax.
It's still growing — I'm adding camps every week — but camp season is coming up fast and I figured it's better to share it now than wait until it's "perfect."
Would love feedback from this community. What info matters most to you when picking a camp? Anything missing that would make this more useful?
Backstory if you're curious: A few years ago I didn't know anything about the sport beyond the elementary rec games I watched. When my kids started moving up from rec, I tried finding info on clubs and it was rough — word of mouth (not always balanced or reliable), inconsistent and outdated websites, nothing centralized. You're basically just googling and hoping someone's Instagram is updated with tryout dates. The last two summers we started looking beyond the local high school camp, and I realized there's nothing centralized for finding camps either. I would have loved a reliable list to start from, so I used my AI/tech background to put this together.
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u/Express_Help2498 Apr 27 '26
This is amazing! Thank you for all your time and effort!
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u/Desperate-Macaron225 Apr 28 '26
Thank you! It was my first experiment building a site and gathering data with AI. Still lots of review work to have clean data, but thousands of hours easier than pre-AI!
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u/Express_Help2498 Apr 28 '26
AI has been super helpful to me in data analysis for teams. I can put all the data in, and the AI will tell me strengths and opportunities, and it will even write up practice plans for me. What model are you currently using?
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u/Desperate-Macaron225 Apr 28 '26
Last year, was using a lot of ChatGPT, this year Claude (Cowork/Code) and Gemini. How about you?
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u/Express_Help2498 Apr 29 '26
I use Claude as my day to day but sometimes I will put team and player data into ChatGPT and it does a better job of digging into it.
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u/g4rbl3 Coach Apr 28 '26
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u/Desperate-Macaron225 Apr 28 '26
thank you! i've sent my girls to BCA camp before, and one is planning to attend the UMD camp again this year. Great reminders, somehow I've missed the ones I know best!
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u/Its_apparent Apr 27 '26
This is awesome. I've been looking around for my daughter, and they aren't incredibly well advertised. Great work! Looks like I found one that'll work, based on this search.