Playing Sports for a Different HS

[Anonymous]

I think liability issues alone would make it unlikely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to actually attend the school to play for the team.

Says who? No high school league has this policy that I'm aware of.

[Anonymous]

I believe there have been times where say a GDS kid plays on the Sidwell football team. I believe all conferences have different rules.

Here is an article from the GDS paper in 2023. Certainly, nobody would allow a superstar player to join a superstar team that didn't attend the school...however, Sidwell is far from a superstar team.

https://theaugurbit.com/2023/12/11/gds-senior-plays-football-for-sidwell/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I thought you could play for your home public school. Is that not right?

Fir DCPS, only if the kid attends another dcps high school.
I know this from the crew world. We had some parents of kids in private school insist their kids should be allowed to participate but the answer was always "No".

For crew, a scholastic team is required to pull its student-athletes from one school. So no Walls kids on the J-R team. It’s not a DCPS rule. J-R did still have a few Walls kids last season despite the rule. But I think they are in compliance now.

Clubs can have mixed school teams. Our school is too small to have have a full team, but they all go to a club, and the boats are mixed schools.

[Anonymous]

Travel sports is your answer. And no, you cannot play sports at a school you do not attend

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Travel sports is your answer. And no, you cannot play sports at a school you do not attend

Literally, two posts above you is an article from the GDS newspaper showing a GDS student playing on the Sidwell football team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Travel sports is your answer. And no, you cannot play sports at a school you do not attend

You absolutely can and I know students who did. It's not super common because you need to go outside your school's conference AND be doing a sport they don't offer, but it's possible in those specific circumstances. Again, ask the school's athletic department.

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Anonymous wrote:You have to actually attend the school to play for the team.

Says who? No high school league has this policy that I'm aware of.

That is correct in Virginia for public schools. Bizarre to me that this wouldn't be the policy everywhere. Why should non-students take opportunities away from kids who actually attend the school?

[Anonymous]

Jesus so many of you bozos know nothing and post anyway

OP, we’re at a NW private and we have kids from other privates play for our teams

You can do it if 1) your school doesnt have a team 2) both athletic directors and the coach says ok 3) the ADs get ok from the league

Sheesh people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jesus so many of you bozos know nothing and post anyway

OP, we’re at a NW private and we have kids from other privates play for our teams

You can do it if 1) your school doesnt have a team 2) both athletic directors and the coach says ok 3) the ADs get ok from the league

Sheesh people

Aren’t people annoyed when they are paying $50k+/year for their kid not to play or even make the team while another kid from a different school plays?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe there have been times where say a GDS kid plays on the Sidwell football team. I believe all conferences have different rules.

Here is an article from the GDS paper in 2023. Certainly, nobody would allow a superstar player to join a superstar team that didn't attend the school...however, Sidwell is far from a superstar team.

https://theaugurbit.com/2023/12/11/gds-senior-plays-football-for-sidwell/

Thanks PP. This article is helpful:

The D.C. State Athletic Association (DCSAA), an organization that GDS and Sidwell are both members of, has a handbook that states, “Student-athletes in grade 9, 10, 11 or 12 attending a member school in which a desired sport is not offered, [sic] may request authorization to participate at any member school offering the desired sport.”

While the rule means that Romine can play for the Sidwell team in DCSAA games, the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAC) does not allow for students to play for schools that they do not attend. Romine and the two students from Burke did not play in any MAC games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus so many of you bozos know nothing and post anyway

OP, we’re at a NW private and we have kids from other privates play for our teams

You can do it if 1) your school doesnt have a team 2) both athletic directors and the coach says ok 3) the ADs get ok from the league

Sheesh people

Aren’t people annoyed when they are paying $50k+/year for their kid not to play or even make the team while another kid from a different school plays?

Yes, but I think this is not happening in soccer or basketball. I think this happens in sports like ice hockey or football where there are more spots than players to fill them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought you could play for your home public school. Is that not right?

Fir DCPS, only if the kid attends another dcps high school.
I know this from the crew world. We had some parents of kids in private school insist their kids should be allowed to participate but the answer was always "No".

For crew, a scholastic team is required to pull its student-athletes from one school. So no Walls kids on the J-R team. It’s not a DCPS rule. J-R did still have a few Walls kids last season despite the rule. But I think they are in compliance now.

Clubs can have mixed school teams. Our school is too small to have have a full team, but they all go to a club, and the boats are mixed schools.

The above was in response to the general topic of competing for a school you don’t attend and specifically rowing for a DCPS HS. J-R, the only DCPS HS rowing team, only takes students from J-R.

Clubs are different. Students from different schools can be on a club team, even if their school has a rowing team. But this type of club is not eligible to participate in some events - scholastic - that are restricted to teams where all the rowers must be from the same school.

For example, TBC Racing is eligible for the Head of the Charles but not for Stotesbury.