Can anyone make sense to me on DC school sports?

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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.

Softball is a UMC sport?

[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.

Agreed. Hopefully if MacArthur manages to attract good numbers of students that would have otherwise gone to JR, it might be another competitive DCPS HS. Especially in sports like baseball and volleyball in which what the athletes do outside of school season is more important.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Agreed. Hopefully if MacArthur manages to attract good numbers of students that would have otherwise gone to JR, it might be another competitive DCPS HS. Especially in sports like baseball and volleyball in which what the athletes do outside of school season is more important.

Hardy is the only school that is even competitive with Deal in many sports. If they start consistently feeding MacArthur, they'll be competitive. But being 1/2 the size, they probably just fight for 2nd with SWW.

[Anonymous]

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

It’s insane

[Anonymous]

DCIAA runs the league for DCPS schools.

DC PCSAA runs the league for charter schools.

DCSAA just hosts "state championship" games for DCPS, DCPCS, and DC private schools in aggregate. Like just end of season stuff.


DCIAA sucks. Whoever runs it must be watching YouTube all day. Or is sleeping. Or maybe is at a bar. He's certainly not trying to manage anything.

[Anonymous]

Who remembers this beauty from a couple of years ago? DME funded a study looking at what DC can do to become a premier sports city.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1070680.page

They can't be bothered to adequately fund or manage basic high school or middle school sports, but they'll spend money on dumb reports.

[Anonymous]

Someone please elaborate on the supposed Mary Chen thing. I have been trying to chase this down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCIAA runs the league for DCPS schools.

DC PCSAA runs the league for charter schools.

DCSAA just hosts "state championship" games for DCPS, DCPCS, and DC private schools in aggregate. Like just end of season stuff.


DCIAA sucks. Whoever runs it must be watching YouTube all day. Or is sleeping. Or maybe is at a bar. He's certainly not trying to manage anything.

100%. DCIAA is terrible and DCSAA is not far behind. The conference provides virtually nothing for the schools or athletes. The officiating for some sports is laughably bad (like don't even know the basic rules bad and are officiating the championship) and the selection of all league teams is seemingly done to make sure that there are athletes from many schools on the list rather than recognizing the athletes with the best performances, making it more of a participation ribbon than something meaningful.