MCPS athletes
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Anonymous
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Did your kid continue to play in college?
Did they play or plan to continue playing after college? What % of MCPS students play in college and professionally? Which MCP HS has the highest number of students recruited for college sports? |
Anonymous
| I'll play - our kid played a varsity sport in HS, and played the same sport (soccer) at the club level, and basketball at the intramural level |
Anonymous
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My kid was an okay player on an okay MCPS team. A couple of the girls from her team did get recruited to college teams (I don’t think they got scholarships). Mine did not but is actually playing a totally different sport as a walk on, and the team is pretty competitive. I’m honestly not crazy about it because I feel like it’s interfering with studying but she really loves it.
You can see the commits page for any given school on the schools Instagram or athletics page every spring. |
Anonymous
| Is there any place to find the number of mcps athletes being recruited for college sports? |
Anonymous
| Kids getting recruited for college sports develop their skills outside of school teams. No one gets great just by playing at school. |
Anonymous
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https://whenyoucantgopro.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/5/2/26529572/from_high_school_to_pro_statistics.pdf
3% to 13% play in college. (Chances are higher for more expensive, less popular sports, of course) Less than 0.1% go pro. But these numbers are useless because a team member is not the same as a star is not the same as someone who is top in the state. Odds are better at small expensive schools. The vast majority of college students are at huge schools with over 1000 students per grade Half are at schools with over 4000 per grade. |
Anonymous
Some MCPS students are recruited out of club-only sports, like rowing and fencing. |
Anonymous
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This is anecdotal. My daughter went to a very large MCPS school with a good soccer team and average bball team. Girls soccer team annually sends one to multiple players to D2/3 and occasionally a player to D1. At least for soccer I would say the strongest teams (like state championship level) have multiple D1 level recruits playing at the same time (Whitman). For bball, two of her teammates are D3 level and one decided to continue to play at that level. I don't think there were any D1 girls senior bball commits this year at MCPS (may be wrong on that). At the school awards banquet, it seems like there are less than 5 athletes per year playing D1 in anything and 10-20 athletes playing some other level. That is out of 3000+ students and hundreds of athletes. Some athletes at the school who are clearly college level (like all-state) are not playing for their college.
Dunno which school send the most kids to play college sports, but look at schools that have the most state championship level programs - QO for football, Whitman for soccer, etc. |
Anonymous
| the best athletes are already recruited to play for the private schools so the leftovers are in the public schools. |
Anonymous
Most of the top athletes are from public schools. Try again. |
Anonymous
Haha, not even close. Take a look at the top 100 recruits in any major sport, basketball, soccer, baseball, football. It'll be majority private schools. That doesn't even account for rich sports like tennis, golf, lacrosse. |
Anonymous
| Anyone have MCPS stats? On this MCPS forum! |
Anonymous
According to 247sports, the Class of 2025 saw 5 MCPS kids go D1 FBS for football with 3 of them coming from Quince Orchard, 1 from Paint Branch, and 1 from Northwest. |