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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

Yes but there’s no such thing as a 16 year old senior football player. Darn near 50% of boys either start kindergarten late or repeat it. I’ve never heard of a double reclass.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

Yes but there’s no such thing as a 16 year old senior football player. Darn near 50% of boys either start kindergarten late or repeat it. I’ve never heard of a double reclass.

Never heard of a double reclass? Obviously you aren’t in the loop of what’s going on in high school sports.
And you are saying no 16 year old seniors are playing football because 50% of boys start school late or repeat. What about the other 50%? I’d say about 1/8th of the ones that don’t start late or repeat would be 16 during the football season. Do you want us to believe none of that 1/8th ever play football? Could it be that you haven’t noticed them because they are outshined by the 18 year olds you see?
Are your kids 19 year old senior football players?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors. Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to get really good training at a basketball Academy you are better off going to Gillion Academy in Springfield or Bethel Academy in Manassas. Gillon trains 4 hours a day and is very serious on the academic side. They even have live teaching days, SJA does not have any of that and they train for less time, but charge more than twice as much.

No decent teacher or parent would consider Gillion (not "Gillon" as you spelled it in that sentence) to be "very serious on the academic side."

One, GILLION was spelled correctly and then there was a typo in the second instance. I am really happy that we have someone who apparently is perfect on this thread and doesn’t understand the possibility of typos, even when GILLION was spelled correctly in the same paragraph.

Two, GILLION just hired a writing program director. I can assure you SJA, does not have that position.

Third, it doesn’t make any sense to compare GILLION to Sidwell, or any Academy to a traditional school. They are not the same and do not claim to be the same. However, GILLION IS more serious that SJA in regards to academics. SJA utilizes free public virtual school, but provides zero in person academic offerings. The “teachers” just roam around and give help where needed and tell the kids to be quiet, which is pretty much nonstop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors. Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.

That person was taking about the WCAC. There are other athletic associations that don’t have the same requirement so there could be kids that are 20 when the graduate.

If you are correct and the kids are only 19 when they do graduate. Who wants their kid to be 19 and couple months from 20 when they graduate high school? Most kids are barely 18. Do you think this makes your kid an elite athlete? No they are just older. A young man amongst boys.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors. Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.

That person was taking about the WCAC. There are other athletic associations that don’t have the same requirement so there could be kids that are 20 when the graduate.

If you are correct and the kids are only 19 when they do graduate. Who wants their kid to be 19 and couple months from 20 when they graduate high school? Most kids are barely 18. Do you think this makes your kid an elite athlete? No they are just older. A young man amongst boys.

Go to sleep you insomniac

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you want your kid to get really good training at a basketball Academy you are better off going to Gillion Academy in Springfield or Bethel Academy in Manassas. Gillon trains 4 hours a day and is very serious on the academic side. They even have live teaching days, SJA does not have any of that and they train for less time, but charge more than twice as much.

No decent teacher or parent would consider Gillion (not "Gillon" as you spelled it in that sentence) to be "very serious on the academic side."

One, GILLION was spelled correctly and then there was a typo in the second instance. I am really happy that we have someone who apparently is perfect on this thread and doesn’t understand the possibility of typos, even when GILLION was spelled correctly in the same paragraph.

Two, GILLION just hired a writing program director. I can assure you SJA, does not have that position.

Third, it doesn’t make any sense to compare GILLION to Sidwell, or any Academy to a traditional school. They are not the same and do not claim to be the same. However, GILLION IS more serious that SJA in regards to academics. SJA utilizes free public virtual school, but provides zero in person academic offerings. The “teachers” just roam around and give help where needed and tell the kids to be quiet, which is pretty much nonstop.

So not ”very serious”?

Of course it’s not. I am surprised any of these sports camps pretend to be schools. What is the point of that?

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors. Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.

That person was taking about the WCAC. There are other athletic associations that don’t have the same requirement so there could be kids that are 20 when the graduate.

If you are correct and the kids are only 19 when they do graduate. Who wants their kid to be 19 and couple months from 20 when they graduate high school? Most kids are barely 18. Do you think this makes your kid an elite athlete? No they are just older. A young man amongst boys.

Most kids are firmly 18, not barely 18…but colleges don’t care how old you are.

If it results in my kid getting a Power 4 offer in a revenue sport, then why would I care? If that happens then by default they are an elite athlete. Also, if that’s what everyone is doing then they are men amongst men.

If your argument is that parents are doing this for kids with no shot, that’s a different point.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL! When you have adult men on your roster.

Are you talking about the WCAC schools where 75% or more PF their roster has reclassified twice?

This comment isn't even remotely correct and is barely English. You are clearly just bitter you lack the intelligence to get into a WCAC school.

Huh? You don’t have to be intelligent to play sports at a WCAC and the WCAC’s are full of reclassed and double reclassed players. Especially in basketball.

I thought WCAC has an upper age limit of 19? It’s possible to be double declassed if you started school early but most kids can only reclass once.

Here’s the rule, "An athlete must not have reached the age of 19 by August 1 of the school year they wish to compete in”.

Right, so the oldest a senior can be is 18 on August 1 prior to start of senior year correct?

A kid who turns 19 August 2nd is considered a double reclass. I was 16 until November of my senior year. There are still kids that are 16 as a senior football player.

A 19 year old senior football player should have a maturity advantage over a 16 year old senior.

You were very young. Probably 90% of all HS seniors turn 18 in their senior year based on starting kindergarten at 5 which is customary.

By your logic, an 18 year old football player also has a maturity advantage.

In any event, you could have reclassed twice but 90% couldn’t.

Yes 18 year olds and 19 year olds have a maturity advantage over a 17 year old. Just look at the WCAC basketball rosters. You won’t find many that will graduate younger than 19.

I have a son who played up in AAU with a kid who is a sophomore at St John’s now. The kid at St John’s was born a year earlier the same month as my son who is now a junior. And the St John’s kid comes from a basketball family. His grandfather was head coach at Mason and then U Miami. His father and uncle have also worked for professional basketball teams.

My son played with another with a kid at O’Connell who was born the same month and year as the kid at St John’s who is now a sophomore. There is another kid they played with that had an even earlier birthday, who reclassed once to play at O’Connell, then he transferred to Flint Hill for his sophomore year, and this year he transferred to Highland to repeat his sophomore year.

A couple years ago Elliot Cadeau made big news as a high school senior that was reclassifying to finish school a year early after committing to UNC. What wasn’t being said is that Cadeau had already reclassified twice so even though he was coming out a year early, he was still atleast a year older than the kids in his high school graduating class.

The statement that no kid is reclassifying twice is not accurate. It’s a popular thing to do know and gotten to the point that the kids who don’t are at a disadvantage.

It doesn’t make any sense if 90% of HS kids turn 18 as seniors. Thats all HS kids, not just athletes.

Put another way, who cares if someone reclassed once or twice if you still can’t be over 19 by graduation.

You seem too obsessed with the number of reclasses vs the age when the kids graduate.

That person was taking about the WCAC. There are other athletic associations that don’t have the same requirement so there could be kids that are 20 when the graduate.

If you are correct and the kids are only 19 when they do graduate. Who wants their kid to be 19 and couple months from 20 when they graduate high school? Most kids are barely 18. Do you think this makes your kid an elite athlete? No they are just older. A young man amongst boys.

Most kids are firmly 18, not barely 18…but colleges don’t care how old you are.

If it results in my kid getting a Power 4 offer in a revenue sport, then why would I care? If that happens then by default they are an elite athlete. Also, if that’s what everyone is doing then they are men amongst men.

If your argument is that parents are doing this for kids with no shot, that’s a different point.

Most kids are closer to 17, than they are 19 when they graduate. Most WCAC basketball players are closer to 20, than they are 18 when they graduate.

My argument was that it’s not abnormal to see a double reclass in the WCAC. Someone above said nod kids were doing that.