High School "Recruiting"

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Anonymous wrote:This was a catholic school, correct?

It is unclear, but probably not, since all application have been submitted for WCAC schools. Independent schools have more money to give.

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Follow up with the coach if you have any interest (he gave you his card for a reason). It can mean a wide range of things at different schools - from potential help/boost with admittance to potential financial help to just encouragement to apply.

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How is it not sleazy? You must be kidding. The Alabama football coach is just a coach and he needs to win. College football is a business. A Gonzaga coach needs to win or get fired? Gee, I thought coaches at these prep schools were also teachers or administrators. If teaching is the least important aspect of someone's job at Gonzaga, I almost feel bad for the parents paying a lot of money to have their kids attend. Maybe sports wins is the most important thing at Gonzaga as it would be at Alabama for football. That too would explain a lot about Gonzaga.

Pimping middle school kids through a combine recruiting event to rank them is disgusting. If you can't see that for what it is, nothing can help you as a parent.

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Anonymous wrote:If you are interested in looking at Gonzaga for HS I strongly encourage you to attend the Perfect Performance Lacrosse Combine with Gonzaga Lacrosse.

http://perfect-performance.com/camps/laxshowcase/

A recruiting showcase for a high school? This is the sleaziest thing I have ever seen, and that is really saying something from someone who has been a lacrosse parent for the last 12 years. Embarrassed for Casey. This is disgusting.

Why is this sleazy? His job literally depends on winning, does it not?

Bob Waters has a brochure for you then. Ready to talk about all the wonderful opportunities playing big time high school lacrosse can do for your son? Come back and post again after you've spent 4 hours listening to that.

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Anonymous wrote:How is it not sleazy? You must be kidding. The Alabama football coach is just a coach and he needs to win. College football is a business. A Gonzaga coach needs to win or get fired? Gee, I thought coaches at these prep schools were also teachers or administrators. If teaching is the least important aspect of someone's job at Gonzaga, I almost feel bad for the parents paying a lot of money to have their kids attend. Maybe sports wins is the most important thing at Gonzaga as it would be at Alabama for football. That too would explain a lot about Gonzaga.

Pimping middle school kids through a combine recruiting event to rank them is disgusting. If you can't see that for what it is, nothing can help you as a parent.

Don't. Its fairly inexpensive by DC standards.

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The gonzaga lacrosse coach looks like a total tool ball for agreeing to put his name associated with this combine for middle school kids.

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Is this going to be another one of those LAX from an Insider threads? Please let this die a swift death. Thank you.

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All of the private schools in the DC area are recruiting these days for athletics.

Cry me a river if it bothers you.

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St. Johns fired their football coach yesterday for not winning enough!

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Anonymous wrote:St. Johns fired their football coach yesterday for not winning enough!

So what. It isn't like that school is trying to be St. Albans on the academic side. I see that some prep schools take sports this seriously and that goes a long way to explain how horrid they are on the academic side because of that emphasis. If you are not a jock at St. John's or Bullis or Landon you're likely looking at University of Maryland as a reach school.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Johns fired their football coach yesterday for not winning enough!

So what. It isn't like that school is trying to be St. Albans on the academic side. I see that some prep schools take sports this seriously and that goes a long way to explain how horrid they are on the academic side because of that emphasis. If you are not a jock at St. John's or Bullis or Landon you're likely looking at University of Maryland as a reach school.

Somebody is upset that athletes are getting into Ivy's. Your 1980's view of the world is outdated.

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So what. It isn't like that school is trying to be St. Albans on the academic side. I see that some prep schools take sports this seriously and that goes a long way to explain how horrid they are on the academic side because of that emphasis. If you are not a jock at St. John's or Bullis or Landon you're likely looking at University of Maryland as a reach school.

You sound like a moron and this could not be further from the truth.

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Not upset that recruited athletes are getting into Ivies. I have a son at an Ivy who is a student athlete. He didn't waltz in as a recruit. He had the grades, scores and of course his sports all covered. Kids who don't get denied admission. It is true that kids who are being recruited for a sport will get a preference and will get in IF they meet all three criteria. Ivies obviously have enough qualified applicants, and more than enough sports recruits who are also top students.

I think prep schools that recruit for sports are pathetic. Sure, there are some esoteric preppy sports like crew where the better programs are at prep schools but in general a kid is who he is. It is just as easy to get recruited as a football player, baseball player or swimmer from any public HS as it is from a IAC or WCAC school. The only compelling thing I see in it is if there is a sports scholarship involved, are the preps better at placing kids into colleges than our local public HS? Long ago when my son had a chance to consider Gonzaga, Landon and Bullis, the easy answer was no, no and no.

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The head coach and assistant coach from a local private high school separately gave my husband their cards after watching my eighth grade DS play. You hear about boys getting "recruited" for high school sports, but what does that mean and how does it "work?" An admissions boost? Does it make it more likely our son could get a scholarship of some kind if he has really good grades and test scores? Is it ethical? -- How would we navigate this appropriately? Oh, and our son is very good at his sport, maybe even excellent, but currently we can't even really tell if he has any D1 potential, and he has only been approached by one school.....
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If it's a fit for your son and he likes the sport ...check it out. Just remember the cut from high school sports to college is huge. Just look over the Washington Post all met selections for any sport and see where the kids go. About half are d1 and that's the all met selections.

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Anonymous wrote:Not upset that recruited athletes are getting into Ivies. I have a son at an Ivy who is a student athlete. He didn't waltz in as a recruit. He had the grades, scores and of course his sports all covered. Kids who don't get denied admission. It is true that kids who are being recruited for a sport will get a preference and will get in IF they meet all three criteria. Ivies obviously have enough qualified applicants, and more than enough sports recruits who are also top students.

I think prep schools that recruit for sports are pathetic. Sure, there are some esoteric preppy sports like crew where the better programs are at prep schools but in general a kid is who he is. It is just as easy to get recruited as a football player, baseball player or swimmer from any public HS as it is from a IAC or WCAC school. The only compelling thing I see in it is if there is a sports scholarship involved, are the preps better at placing kids into colleges than our local public HS? Long ago when my son had a chance to consider Gonzaga, Landon and Bullis, the easy answer was no, no and no.

So you realize that the kids at gonzaga, Landon and Bullis (not sure why you picked those 3 but... okay) that go to Ivy have the grades and scores. I am not sure why people wish these schools have "horrid... on the academic side" These schools (and many others) absolutely prepare kids for Ivy school admittance... so do public schools for that matter, if the kid is motivated to go to an Ivy. (not everybody is/some would never go)

Have you ever thought that a child just liked the school, is it always about the end game with you? Do you do a cost benefit analysis on everything in your life? Except for football, HS teams are not close to as competitive as their club teams. Kids don't go to HS for the coaching. They go for the environment. Most the recruited kids don't even get a scholarship just the phone call, 1 week before the rest of the kids get their letter.

Most these kids are choosing private anyway, but the coach would love to tip the decision in their favor.

I don't think there should be HS recruiting either, but there is. I don't think colleges (Ivy's included) should recruit 8th graders, but they do.

But the idea that only the sports school recruit is wrong and the idea that WCAC schools can't prepare a child for an Ivy is wrong.

I have been through the HS recruiting and the college recruiting.. in the end my kids were lucky enough to pick the school they liked the best, it was the school they would have gone to without sports/arts. Sports (and arts for 1 child) is a passion. The world needs more people with passion.