Recruited College Athletes from Big-3 Type Schools?

[Anonymous]

Exactly pp. We need to know the sport in question.

[Anonymous]

Some good advice on this thread. As someone said, we need to know the specific sport. But while the club team he plays for may be the more important factor, basketball is a sport where both the AAU team and school team are factors. Numerous kids who are talented basketball players transfer freshman year to a WCAC team. Why? Because it's one of the best leagues in the US, and you can get incredible attention playing against some of the top talent in the nation.

For example, some top players play in the IAC or, to a lesser extent, the MAC. But generally speaking, all the top basketball players in this area play either in the WCAC or a public school team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell doesn't send kids to play soccer, Bethesda Soccer Club does. All that exposure is through being on top club teams that do the Disney showcase and tend to be nationally ranked. They just happen to also be at Sidwell. Actually the Episcopal team is one of the top ranked in the city this year and several of those kids play for a Bethesda team as well.

Got an axe to grind, huh?

Not sure with whom I would be grinding the axe. I don't have kids at either school but have friends with soccer playing kids at both. Just pointing out that the club is the recruitment tool here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some good advice on this thread. As someone said, we need to know the specific sport. But while the club team he plays for may be the more important factor, basketball is a sport where both the AAU team and school team are factors. Numerous kids who are talented basketball players transfer freshman year to a WCAC team. Why? Because it's one of the best leagues in the US, and you can get incredible attention playing against some of the top talent in the nation.

For example, some top players play in the IAC or, to a lesser extent, the MAC. But generally speaking, all the top basketball players in this area play either in the WCAC or a public school team.

Agreed, PP. DeMatha, for example, is still a "brand name" that means something. The IAC currently has similar stature for boys' lacrosse--although the public school programs are catching up quickly as youth lacrosse expands in local communities. Bottom line, though, given the club scene in most sports and the ability to send DVDs or post on YouTube with game footage, I don't think a kid with Div. I talent gets overlooked these days--sounds a bit like a local coach or other parents are trying to recruit OP's son, and willing to trade on the family's inexperience and anxiety along the way.

[Anonymous]

Just ignore that person - it's just more Sidwell defensiveness. Instead of acknowledging/fixing their athletic program, they choose to resort to personal attacks. As if having a decent athletic program is impossible if you value academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just ignore that person - it's just more Sidwell defensiveness. Instead of acknowledging/fixing their athletic program, they choose to resort to personal attacks. As if having a decent athletic program is impossible if you value academics.

Please stick to your dozens of identical posts on the zillion-page Sidwell thread. This is a different topic.

[Anonymous]

PP - tell that to the Sidwell freak who said the poster had an "axe to grind" when he wasn't saying anything disparaging against Sidwell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP - tell that to the Sidwell freak who said the poster had an "axe to grind" when he wasn't saying anything disparaging against Sidwell.

Oh stop it. That poster clearly said that club teams were the way to get recruited. When talking about Sidwell and St. Albans she was talking about the academics. She clearly stated that in her post. If you want to keep bashing Sidwell there is a very long thread devoted to it. Stop trying to hijack this one. (No, i am not connected to Sidwell in any way)

[Anonymous]

let's get back to the topic here...OP has lamely failed to specify the sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:let's get back to the topic here...OP has lamely failed to specify the sport.

OP is probably a troll trying to stir the pot. If her child really plays for a club team then the coaches would know that recruiting takes place at tournaments and during regional/national league play. Unless she's talking about football the school teams have very little to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PP - tell that to the Sidwell freak who said the poster had an "axe to grind" when he wasn't saying anything disparaging against Sidwell.

Oh stop it. That poster clearly said that club teams were the way to get recruited. When talking about Sidwell and St. Albans she was talking about the academics. She clearly stated that in her post. If you want to keep bashing Sidwell there is a very long thread devoted to it. Stop trying to hijack this one. (No, i am not connected to Sidwell in any way)

Do you know how to read? I wasn't bashing that person - I was bashing the person who was bashing the person you are defending. To recap:

Someone on 10/29, 18:46 wrote that those kids who later played collegiate soccer were more affiliated with a Bethesda club than Sidwell.

Then someone on 10/29 18:59 wrote, "Got an axe to grind, huh?"

THAT person is to whom I was referring, NOT the 18:46 poster. The person is obviously someone affiliated with Sidwell who took offense to what was obviously an innocuous post. As you correctly noted, the original poster was not bashing Sidwell. It was the insecure Sidwell parent who made an issue of it.

[Anonymous]

Literally zero of the 7 or 8 Sidwell kids from the last two years (who now play in college) played for the Bethesda Soccer Club. So clearly you have some sort of axe to grind. When one says "Sidwell sends", one doesn't necessarily Sidwell is solely responsible for the success of these athletes; it simply refers to the matriculation. Jesus, go to the other Sidwell-bashing thread. Also, get your facts straight: Bethesda Soccer Club is hardly a power anymore among DC/Maryland/Virginia club soccer teams.

[Anonymous]

Right, Bethesda's glory days are over, it's academy clubs like Potomac and McClean, DC Youth Academy and the Bays in Baltimore that reign, there's also the renegade Pachuca Club which wins State Cups and per its website has amazing college placement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:let's get back to the topic here...OP has lamely failed to specify the sport.

The insistence and clever ways that you, on a number of pps, are trying to get the OP to reveal the sport at issue makes me wonder whether you are a coach at one of the Big 3s afraid that your star athlete is on the verge of getting plucked.

I find this thread interesting, and for my DD, possibly relevant. So anyone out there with helpful info., please do tell. And I will not be sharing the sport either, in my case precisely because I am wary of getting our school coach all spun up.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't bashing Sidwell nor was the PP. You are the one with the "you have an axe to grind" comment.