Giftedness and sports
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Anonymous
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DS attends a FCPS AAP center school. In general, the GE kids are much better at sports. If you use making the all star team as a metric, AAP kids usually do not make the all star team. Some AAP kids do, but they are the small minority.
At the travel sports level, I also don't see many AAP kids. Some of this is because they are not good, and some because the parents don't emphasize sports. The AAP kids spend their free time on scence olympiad, music lessons, and tutoring. It is a joke in my son's league that his school rarely produces any good players due to school being a center school. The TJ bumper sticker that says they came for the sports is a joke on this same subject - most of the sports teams are not as good as the local public schools. |
Anonymous
No...that is true now actually for most sports, but when that sticker was made 20+ years ago, TJ was a great sports school, and that was the joke - good both academically and in sports. TJ back in the day, after it became a magnet but not long after, routinely outperformed in a lot of sports (not football but a lot of others like swimming, crew, tennis, lacrosse, baseball). The website doesn't go that far back into the 90's. |
Anonymous
If AAP kids are about 7-10% of the school population, why should you see them in over abundancy in sports? |
Anonymous
That's interesting- so I should try to get my kids into ice hockey! J/k - that is unlikely to happen. |
Anonymous
In center schools on my side of town, AAP classes are the majority. The only kids from the school that make the all star teams are from the GE minority. |
Anonymous
| There are some very gifted athletes at TJ. However they tend to be good in individual sports vs enough for TJ to be good at team sports. |
Anonymous
| Yep, heading toward playing his sport D1. The ADHD helped too along with the high IQ, perhaps even more than the IQ. On the other hand, plenty of his teammates who are also playing in college don't necessarily have high IQs so it's hard to say but more do than don't. |
Anonymous
Did you check all these kids IQ or they showed it to you for your opinion? |
Anonymous
OP, I'm curious as to why you were curious about this? 
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Anonymous
| Both of mine are competitive athletes and both are gifted per iq scores. |
Anonymous
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Dunno what DD’s IQ is, but she just got into the AAP program, and is athletic. There have been less than 10 eight year old black belts in her school’s 21 year history (TKD), and she just got hers, two weeks after turning eight.
One of my nephews was in Futura (before they moved), a straight A student, and an excellent soccer player. His older brother is also a good student, and an excellent soccer player. His team was VA champs a couple of years ago, and this year, they’ll likely go to San Diego for nationals (or something; I’m not up on my soccer leagues). |
Anonymous
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This is not about my kid, but me. I was in GT in the 70's IQ of 145. I played baseball. Catcher in HS/College. I spent 2 years in the minors before I realize I was never going to make the big leagues.
I started grad school while playing: Minor season is over around Sept 1, so I had two fall semesters. After two years, I went 100% grad school. Got my PhD 5 years later, in Physics. Working as a physicist for 25 years now. I did coach DD's softball team. |
Anonymous
Almost all the kids on my son's travel team are in AAP. |
Anonymous
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My kid is on a top soccer team and got a 149 NNAT, 100% on another norm-referenced test, and is one of the best scorers on the team . But yeah, has some personality issues.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/science/top-soccer-players-are-seen-to-have-superior-brain-function.html |
Anonymous
| The starting catcher for the #3 ranked softball team in the nation (according to USA Today) will go to MIT next year. |