St James Academy
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Anonymous
| Curious what is going on here...is this for home schooled children or do they actually have a school? are they trying to become an IMG Academy? Any insight? |
Anonymous
| I believe they use Virtual Virginia Academy (not the VDOE sponsored one) for the school part. |
Anonymous
| its not for people who want their kids to get a good education. |
Anonymous
| They are a the Junior Varsity version of IMG Academy. |
Anonymous
Not really...IMG Academy is very expensive and doesn't provide much scholarship money. I think it's like $90k/year. I think many people realize that there is huge demand for a much cheaper option, and partnering with St. James that already has built an amazing facility makes a ton of sense. Yes, the St James Academy schooling is not going to be great. You will sit in essentially and office room and learn virtually with one teacher that tries to help kids that need help. The IMG HS teams are getting worse and worse these days. It's becoming more of a 5th year captive team for D1 college programs or kids looking to go pro that want a post-HS facility but not college. Another twist in the model is a place like Pro5 out of Raleigh. It costs like $20k, but you just enroll in the local high school and then train at Pro5 starting at 3pm+ all year round. You aren't allowed to play for the HS teams...I think they may only offer baseball right now. You play Junior Colleges for your game schedule in the Spring. |
Anonymous
| The best is Dwight Global. FULL ✋ |
Anonymous
| Especially for hockey and baseball, I would scheduling would be difficult. Hockey academies, are generally in the northeast and play against other academies. |
Anonymous
| They have pulled a big name football coach as well as girls basketball coach. Will be interesting to see if they can get the players. |
Anonymous
They will…there are enough sports obsessed parents and kids that probably think school is too much of a nuisance for their athlete. Especially football when NIL $$$s are getting crazy that you could make more just in college (not to mention…you can get paid in HS too) than 99% of all adults will make over their entire lifetimes…you don’t even have to go pro. Miami is paying the GA QB like $6MM to transfer…and it’s not clear that kid will be a high NFL draft pick or even drafted at all. |
Anonymous
They may have an option for Home Schooled students to participate in athletics training only during the day. I think its for 7th grade and up. The online school is run by Total Package Hockey (TPH) https://www.thestjames.com/academy https://tphacademy.com |
Anonymous
This. Kids in the DMV hockey world are running away to join online performance academies because they think their kids are the next Div 1 or NHL players. These parents are all nuts. They are setting their kids up to be illiterate and unemployed all while living the fantasy for a few more years that their kids are going somewhere in hockey. Sad. |
Anonymous
| And college admissions officers at D1 schools don’t consider your straight A online performance academy kid to be a true straight A student. You still have to get admitted even if your kid is that good, which is unlikely. |
Anonymous
Huh? Alabama or Georgia or some other power 4 school just cares if you scored an 800 (total) on the SAT and yeah they are fine with your online transcript (BTW…they do offer 12 AP classes) if you are a really strong athlete. |
Anonymous
This is not universally true. If you meet the academic minimum and the athletic department wants you, you are usually admitted. This is the angle these organizations and parents are going for. |
Anonymous
Colleges will admit any D1 athletes the coaches want. Why else do you think there are so many functionally illiterate athletes at big name athletic schools. |