Can anyone make sense to me on DC school sports?

[Anonymous]

Is there really no governing sports organization for middle and high school sports?
DCIAA?
PCSAA?
DCSAA?

What's the difference other than the "richer" charters can afford to enter more leagues? Can a kid do an individual entry into an event like track and field or XC or volleyball if their team doesn't have a team?

Why how can teams like Latin compete in multiple leagues?

[Anonymous]

Are you drunk?

[Anonymous]

I'm confused by it, too, OP. My main question is whether DCSAA has only State Championships or whether they have other events as well.

[Anonymous]

I think individual entries are ok in cross country, not sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there really no governing sports organization for middle and high school sports?
DCIAA?
PCSAA?
DCSAA?

What's the difference other than the "richer" charters can afford to enter more leagues? Can a kid do an individual entry into an event like track and field or XC or volleyball if their team doesn't have a team?

Why how can teams like Latin compete in multiple leagues?

DCIAA runs all public school sports. DCSAA runs DC state championship tournaments of all DC schools (public and private).

If your DCIAA school does not offer a sport, you are free to play the sport at another DCPS school (eg, a Walls student wanting to play football could play for JR or another DCPS school, though you have to make the team).

There are then sports that DCIAA does not jurisdict such as crew, lacrosse, ultimate and field hockey because there are not enough DCPS teams. However, DCSAA does have tournaments in lacrosse, field hockey and ultimate.

I don’t believe charter schools allow students to play for other chargers or DCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

One of the many problems with overcrowding JR and Deal with OOB students is that it makes many of the other schools noncompetative in many sports and it also prevents many talented JR and Deal kids from playing a due to roster size limitations. It’s sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there really no governing sports organization for middle and high school sports?
DCIAA?
PCSAA?
DCSAA?

What's the difference other than the "richer" charters can afford to enter more leagues? Can a kid do an individual entry into an event like track and field or XC or volleyball if their team doesn't have a team?

Why how can teams like Latin compete in multiple leagues?

DCIAA runs all public school sports. DCSAA runs DC state championship tournaments of all DC schools (public and private).

If your DCIAA school does not offer a sport, you are free to play the sport at another DCPS school (eg, a Walls student wanting to play football could play for JR or another DCPS school, though you have to make the team).

There are then sports that DCIAA does not jurisdict such as crew, lacrosse, ultimate and field hockey because there are not enough DCPS teams. However, DCSAA does have tournaments in lacrosse, field hockey and ultimate.

I don’t believe charter schools allow students to play for other chargers or DCPS schools.

If you attend a DCPS school and your school doesn't offer a sport you're eligible to play at another DCPS school. DCPS doesn't allow charter students to play on their teams.

They do however allow private school students who are DC residents to play on DCPS teams. This was something Mary Cheh introduced about five years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the many problems with overcrowding JR and Deal with OOB students is that it makes many of the other schools noncompetative in many sports and it also prevents many talented JR and Deal kids from playing a due to roster size limitations. It’s sad.

It is surprising how competitive Hardy often is with Deal - with a fraction of the students.

[Anonymous]

Kinda crazy that private school kids can play on a DCPS team, but charter school kids can't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the many problems with overcrowding JR and Deal with OOB students is that it makes many of the other schools noncompetative in many sports and it also prevents many talented JR and Deal kids from playing a due to roster size limitations. It’s sad.

It is surprising how competitive Hardy often is with Deal - with a fraction of the students.

+ Walls is often competitive with much bigger and better resourced schools. They don't even have any sports fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the many problems with overcrowding JR and Deal with OOB students is that it makes many of the other schools noncompetative in many sports and it also prevents many talented JR and Deal kids from playing a due to roster size limitations. It’s sad.

It is surprising how competitive Hardy often is with Deal - with a fraction of the students.

+ Walls is often competitive with much bigger and better resourced schools. They don't even have any sports fields.

Walls has better-resourced kids (i.e., come from families of means) than basically all the other DCPS schools with the exception of JR. The Walls athletes that are decent usually play for travel teams in the sport, and families can afford for private training and all the extras.

That said, perhaps soccer is the only sport that has a semblance of being competitive across multiple DCPS schools where Walls is competitive. Walls is absolutely horrific in basketball...basically, always finishes 2nd in baseball because outside of Walls and JR (DCPS baseball teams are appallingly bad like those two teams beat all the other teams usually by 20+ runs), sometimes has a softball team, again finishes 2nd in DCPS in volleyball (but gets crushed by JR and nearly every private school they play), etc.

It is really not saying much to say you are competitive in what are now UMC sports...when it is really just 2 DCPS schools that are any good in those sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there really no governing sports organization for middle and high school sports?
DCIAA?
PCSAA?
DCSAA?

What's the difference other than the "richer" charters can afford to enter more leagues? Can a kid do an individual entry into an event like track and field or XC or volleyball if their team doesn't have a team?

Why how can teams like Latin compete in multiple leagues?

DCIAA runs all public school sports. DCSAA runs DC state championship tournaments of all DC schools (public and private).

If your DCIAA school does not offer a sport, you are free to play the sport at another DCPS school (eg, a Walls student wanting to play football could play for JR or another DCPS school, though you have to make the team).

There are then sports that DCIAA does not jurisdict such as crew, lacrosse, ultimate and field hockey because there are not enough DCPS teams. However, DCSAA does have tournaments in lacrosse, field hockey and ultimate.

I don’t believe charter schools allow students to play for other chargers or DCPS schools.

If you attend a DCPS school and your school doesn't offer a sport you're eligible to play at another DCPS school. DCPS doesn't allow charter students to play on their teams.

They do however allow private school students who are DC residents to play on DCPS teams. This was something Mary Cheh introduced about five years ago.

Does anybody know where this policy is online? I was trying to find it in writing somewhere besides this forum. Thanks!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the many problems with overcrowding JR and Deal with OOB students is that it makes many of the other schools noncompetative in many sports and it also prevents many talented JR and Deal kids from playing a due to roster size limitations. It’s sad.

It is surprising how competitive Hardy often is with Deal - with a fraction of the students.

+ Walls is often competitive with much bigger and better resourced schools. They don't even have any sports fields.

Walls has better-resourced kids (i.e., come from families of means) than basically all the other DCPS schools with the exception of JR. The Walls athletes that are decent usually play for travel teams in the sport, and families can afford for private training and all the extras.

That said, perhaps soccer is the only sport that has a semblance of being competitive across multiple DCPS schools where Walls is competitive. Walls is absolutely horrific in basketball...basically, always finishes 2nd in baseball because outside of Walls and JR (DCPS baseball teams are appallingly bad like those two teams beat all the other teams usually by 20+ runs), sometimes has a softball team, again finishes 2nd in DCPS in volleyball (but gets crushed by JR and nearly every private school they play), etc.

It is really not saying much to say you are competitive in what are now UMC sports...when it is really just 2 DCPS schools that are any good in those sports.

The huge gradients between your small privates, your underfunded publics, and the Catholic “sports are important character building exercises” is hilarious to me. It’s wild that St Albans plays a Gonzaga or Paul VI in anything. Slightly less surprising that those bigger Catholics (and schools like Episcopal) dominate underfunded public schools, we would play against (huge) county high schools as a kid who could barely field a team.

[Anonymous]

For Cross country I thought you needed 5 participants to get a team score.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For Cross country I thought you needed 5 participants to get a team score.

You do, but you can also have an individual score.