TJ sports recruiting

[Anonymous]

Are there any benefits to going to TJ for the sports over say, enrolling to St. John’s or Gonzaga?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any benefits to going to TJ for the sports over say, enrolling to St. John’s or Gonzaga?

Sure. At a St. John's or a Gonzaga, you will constantly see coaches trying to recruit kids that are better than yours. And if they matriculate during their sophomore, junior, or senior year, your kid is out of luck. You're also probably going to start out on Freshmen or JV teams at those schools (or, frankly, at larger base schools).

If you are a very solid performer with experience at a high level in a team sport at TJ, there is a very strong likelihood that you will be an impact varsity player from day 1.

A previous poster overemphasizes the extent to which athletes struggle academically. Most of them actually report being stronger students during their sports season because the lack of free time enforces the development of time management skills that are broadly applicable down the road.

What sport is your DC interested in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any benefits to going to TJ for the sports over say, enrolling to St. John’s or Gonzaga?

Sure. At a St. John's or a Gonzaga, you will constantly see coaches trying to recruit kids that are better than yours. And if they matriculate during their sophomore, junior, or senior year, your kid is out of luck. You're also probably going to start out on Freshmen or JV teams at those schools (or, frankly, at larger base schools).

If you are a very solid performer with experience at a high level in a team sport at TJ, there is a very strong likelihood that you will be an impact varsity player from day 1.

A previous poster overemphasizes the extent to which athletes struggle academically. Most of them actually report being stronger students during their sports season because the lack of free time enforces the development of time management skills that are broadly applicable down the road.

What sport is your DC interested in?

Seriously. If the situation were as PP described, TJ would not be able to field teams.

[Anonymous]

A troll started this thread and is replying to themselves with nonsense about TJ sports.

Unlike students at base schools, TJ students prioritize academics over sports. While individual sports at TJ have seen some successes, this is largely due to the skills students developed before entering TJ. Team sports at TJ are more recreational than competitive. TJ students participate in sports for physical health, stress management, and team camaraderie, but they are quick to scale back if it starts affecting their academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A troll started this thread and is replying to themselves with nonsense about TJ sports.

Unlike students at base schools, TJ students prioritize academics over sports. While individual sports at TJ have seen some successes, this is largely due to the skills students developed before entering TJ. Team sports at TJ are more recreational than competitive. TJ students participate in sports for physical health, stress management, and team camaraderie, but they are quick to scale back if it starts affecting their academics.

Couldn't have gotten this more wrong. I'm PP and I responded to OP - IP addresses will confirm that we're two different people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A troll started this thread and is replying to themselves with nonsense about TJ sports.

Unlike students at base schools, TJ students prioritize academics over sports. While individual sports at TJ have seen some successes, this is largely due to the skills students developed before entering TJ. Team sports at TJ are more recreational than competitive. TJ students participate in sports for physical health, stress management, and team camaraderie, but they are quick to scale back if it starts affecting their academics.

As the bumper stickers have said for decades (saw one out and about last month): "TJ, we came for the sports."

And then there was: "Robinson, we stayed for the academics."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

My TJ kid played a sport all four years at TJ and all three seasons each year. He was also heavily involved in another outside of school competitive sport for the last three years at TJ. We knew lots of other kids on my kid’s teams who were just as involved with sports at TJ.

His academics never suffered and he went to a very competitive STEM oriented university- the admissions counselor noted to him at one point that they really liked the fact that he did so well at a school like TJ while also spending significant hours each week doing two very different sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

My kid was a solid football player in middle school, so we thought he'd conquer TJ like a champ. But those Freshman fall practices went on late, often getting home around 8pm. By the time he showered and ate, it was 9pm, and with half his homework still untouched, staying awake past 11 was a struggle. Stress piled up as his grades in Biology and English formed a nice half-moon shaped C, while RS1 was a solid D. Math 1 was a nightmare all by itself. Weekdays were filled with practices until 7pm or games until 9pm, leaving us parents frustrated and him facing losing game performance and failing grades. We all eagerly awaited the season's end in mid-November, hoping to focus on academics, but the road to grade recovery was tougher than intense two hour agility drills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

My TJ kid played a sport all four years at TJ and all three seasons each year. He was also heavily involved in another outside of school competitive sport for the last three years at TJ. We knew lots of other kids on my kid’s teams who were just as involved with sports at TJ.

His academics never suffered and he went to a very competitive STEM oriented university- the admissions counselor noted to him at one point that they really liked the fact that he did so well at a school like TJ while also spending significant hours each week doing two very different sports.

This is the sort of thing that happens all the time at TJ. The students who achieve the strongest college outcomes are usually the ones with diverse resumes. The job is to show the school that you will either donate yourself or inspire others to do so, and athletes fit that bill very well regardless of whether or not they're recruitable.

What the above poster didn't mention is that their student probably had greater athletic opportunities at TJ than they would have at their base school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

My kid was a solid football player in middle school, so we thought he'd conquer TJ like a champ. But those Freshman fall practices went on late, often getting home around 8pm. By the time he showered and ate, it was 9pm, and with half his homework still untouched, staying awake past 11 was a struggle. Stress piled up as his grades in Biology and English formed a nice half-moon shaped C, while RS1 was a solid D. Math 1 was a nightmare all by itself. Weekdays were filled with practices until 7pm or games until 9pm, leaving us parents frustrated and him facing losing game performance and failing grades. We all eagerly awaited the season's end in mid-November, hoping to focus on academics, but the road to grade recovery was tougher than intense two hour agility drills.

This story does not quite ring true. A solid middle school football player is likely participating with the Varsity, not the Freshmen (TJ does not have a Freshmen football team or a JV for that matter, but the freshmen who are not varsity ready do have practices and skill development opportunities while they get ready for Varsity). The practices also end in almost all cases by 6:30, so the student would have to live incredibly far away to get home around 8 PM even after changing time in the locker room.

The games are exclusively on Fridays or in some cases Thursdays when there is no school on Friday, so those aren't a concern either.

And there are no such things as "two hour agility drills".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A troll started this thread and is replying to themselves with nonsense about TJ sports.

Unlike students at base schools, TJ students prioritize academics over sports. While individual sports at TJ have seen some successes, this is largely due to the skills students developed before entering TJ. Team sports at TJ are more recreational than competitive. TJ students participate in sports for physical health, stress management, and team camaraderie, but they are quick to scale back if it starts affecting their academics.

As the bumper stickers have said for decades (saw one out and about last month): "TJ, we came for the sports."

I like the car magnets with the T and J with the number 1 between them, I want to pull up to the drivers and ask if they are going to change that to a 14.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure about the benefits, but most kids try out a sport and join lots of clubs. However, once a C or D grade drops on the report card, the first thing that gets cut is sports.

The only kids who have the time to do sports for more than one year are the academically advanced students who can manage to go home after two to three hours of sports practice plus car ride, complete their homework, and be prepared for quizzes the next day. Managing sports along with academics is not for the faint of heart, few manage to do them beyond freshman year. Junior year academics is brutal, last thing they are thinking about is doing sports.

My TJ kid played a sport all four years at TJ and all three seasons each year. He was also heavily involved in another outside of school competitive sport for the last three years at TJ. We knew lots of other kids on my kid’s teams who were just as involved with sports at TJ.

His academics never suffered and he went to a very competitive STEM oriented university- the admissions counselor noted to him at one point that they really liked the fact that he did so well at a school like TJ while also spending significant hours each week doing two very different sports.

played a sport all four years at TJ and all three seasons each year? did your kid ever go into the TJ building or just played outside everyday before heading back home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:played a sport all four years at TJ and all three seasons each year? did your kid ever go into the TJ building or just played outside everyday before heading back home?

This struck me as so funny for some reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A troll started this thread and is replying to themselves with nonsense about TJ sports.

Unlike students at base schools, TJ students prioritize academics over sports. While individual sports at TJ have seen some successes, this is largely due to the skills students developed before entering TJ. Team sports at TJ are more recreational than competitive. TJ students participate in sports for physical health, stress management, and team camaraderie, but they are quick to scale back if it starts affecting their academics.

As the bumper stickers have said for decades (saw one out and about last month): "TJ, we came for the sports."

And then there was: "Robinson, we stayed for the academics."

Nice stickers, but those are only for the advanced academics kids. Others are buried deep in academics, just trying to climb out of Cs and Ds.