Best Area Schools for Tennis

[Anonymous]

This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Does St Albans have any emphasis on tennis? I mean they have a team but…I think you will find it is difficult for DS to balance his tennis career with his school work at any of these top privates.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Which high performance group at JTCC and what is currently the problem? Most kids go after school and on weekends without issue.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Which high performance group at JTCC and what is currently the problem? Most kids go after school and on weekends without issue.

No problem. My child wants to explore other schools, not just due to tennis. We'd like to look at schools that have good programs and facilities. The JTCC high performance program at their age does not offer weekends any longer unfortunately by the way, since they encourage tournament play on the weekends. (Junior Champs still has this I believe but not above that level).

[Anonymous]

Georgetown Prep also looks to have a good tennis facility.

[Anonymous]

If we're talking real/traditional/brick-and-mortal schools it's Sidwell hands-down, both biys and girls

[Anonymous]

What is your end goal here? My friend's son went to a small DC private not known for tennis and still went on do play D1 in college.

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Which schools have bubble/indoor courts?

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Anonymous wrote:What is your end goal here? My friend's son went to a small DC private not known for tennis and still went on do play D1 in college.

Yeah that’s my question. Admittedly, MOST (good) D1 programs pull either internationally or from kids playing the circuit aggressively, meaning they aren’t in traditional schools. There are unicorns of course (your friend’s son), or maybe D1 isn’t the goal at all. But, it’s an incomplete question at best without stating the end goal.

Perhaps a more direct answer is that if the goal is college tennis, it’s not the high school tennis program you are interested in. You are more so looking for a school that allows for aggressive training schedules. Bullis comes to mind.

Tennis coaches aren’t recruiting at high school tennis matches, so as PP said, you can be at even a small school.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has one of the top 10 programs in the country.

PP again. That’s correct, but it’s not because the program develops the players. Instead, Sidwell does something than no other good school in area does: it makes an effort to recruit top tennis players.

The coach is a van driver. Tennis players go to Sidwell because it’s the only private school that will allow them to leave early to train elsewhere.

Many private schools allow athletes to leave early to train. But they don’t recruit actively. I know personally of three kids over the past few years who were brought into Sidwell because of their tennis skills.

which private schools other than Sidwell allow kids to leave early for tennis training elsewhere?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Maret has block scheduling. We’re also at JTCC and Maret but lower grade/level

[Anonymous]

Sidwell is good - depending how good your kid is, they can go to a D3 school from there. I encourage you to look at the "Tennis Recruiting" site, you can see what rank range is needed for certain colleges.

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OP it’s really hard to generalize bc the hs teams only have 4 singles and 3 doubles playing, so a school can have 2 stars join and seem top for the 4 or so years those kids play. The top kids dont stay local and don’t go to traditional schools. No local school is going to have a huge edge in training bc the season is short. The top kids get all their training outside. If you want a school that’s consistently ok then I’d look at sidwell, st albans, bullis (they do have bubbles but who really cares bc again, the hs season is short, or Potomac. Again, the rankings can really skew with one or two top kids.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Does St Albans have any emphasis on tennis? I mean they have a team but…I think you will find it is difficult for DS to balance his tennis career with his school work at any of these top privates.

STA and Sidwell went back and forth the last few years as the best teams. The best STA player last year was head and shoulders better than Sidwells best but Sidwell had the better team.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thanks. Our child trains in the highest program for their age at JTCC but we want a more balanced approach rather than online school. How is Saint Albans? Also we don’t need the very best as the school itself also has to be a good fit too- just looking for schools with the facilities and some emphasis. Their current school is not great for tennis, but does allow early dismissals for training.

Does St Albans have any emphasis on tennis? I mean they have a team but…I think you will find it is difficult for DS to balance his tennis career with his school work at any of these top privates.

STA and Sidwell went back and forth the last few years as the best teams. The best STA player last year was head and shoulders better than Sidwells best but Sidwell had the better team.

Sidwell hadn’t beaten STA for years until last year, so it wasn’t really back and fourth. And it was 4-3 and came down the #3 doubles match.
For all the recruiting and special accommodations Sidwell makes for their tennis players they should win every match pretty easily, no ?