Freshman boys team at one of the huge publixs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I've known of Fairfax HS students transferring into schools for dance programs (only a few HS offer dance), AP music classes, orchestras and especially better theater programs. Like athletes, they are want better experiences and exposure in the arts for college and career.

This is not an approved reason for transferring.

[Anonymous]

Are you eligible if you move into the school zone? Or do all new students have to sit out a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you eligible if you move into the school zone? Or do all new students have to sit out a year?

Yes eligible. The rule applies to athletes who try to transfer for sports after starting high school. It prevents coaches from trying to poach players from other school team.

A “transfer” isn’t the right word in this case for anyone, athletes included, who just wants to attend another high school for academic, extracurricular or sports reasons.

[Anonymous]

The kids all know who isn't supposed to be at the school they are attending. The only people who don't know anything about it are FCPS admin apparently.

[Anonymous]

MCPS doesn't even have freshmen teams...JV and V only

[Anonymous]

If you think Fairfax is bad, look across the river to DC. A few DC public schools like Deal Middle School and Jackson Reed High School blatantly violate rules by recruiting players from Maryland for basketball and football. This is not a well kept secret btw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you eligible if you move into the school zone? Or do all new students have to sit out a year?

Yes eligible. The rule applies to athletes who try to transfer for sports after starting high school. It prevents coaches from trying to poach players from other school team.

A “transfer” isn’t the right word in this case for anyone, athletes included, who just wants to attend another high school for academic, extracurricular or sports reasons.

Thanks. Moving to the area soon with a kid in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
If you think Fairfax is bad, look across the river to DC. A few DC public schools like Deal Middle School and Jackson Reed High School blatantly violate rules by recruiting players from Maryland for basketball and football. This is not a well kept secret btw.

My kid was offered spots on a couple of Maryland public school teams he wasn’t zoned for. Coaches approached me and offered to fake the paperwork. Those were really weird conversations.

[Anonymous]

We were worried about our ds making the freshman team at our large FCPS after seeing this thread, but after watching games in a high school summer freshman league, we aren't worried any more. There were some really weak players. (And some very good ones of course.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were worried about our ds making the freshman team at our large FCPS after seeing this thread, but after watching games in a high school summer freshman league, we aren't worried any more. There were some really weak players. (And some very good ones of course.)

the vhsl rules are that any kid who wants to participate on the off season teams/green days is allowed to. for the rising 9th grade age group, that means a lot of kids who just played red or casually show up who will never make the team. (there is a lot more self awareness for the upperclassmen, kids don't come out who know they won't make the team.)
the coaches put them in for 30 seconds of a summer game. the kids playing the whole game or most of it are the ones who will actually make the team. did you son play the majority of the games?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We were worried about our ds making the freshman team at our large FCPS after seeing this thread, but after watching games in a high school summer freshman league, we aren't worried any more. There were some really weak players. (And some very good ones of course.)

the vhsl rules are that any kid who wants to participate on the off season teams/green days is allowed to. for the rising 9th grade age group, that means a lot of kids who just played red or casually show up who will never make the team. (there is a lot more self awareness for the upperclassmen, kids don't come out who know they won't make the team.)
the coaches put them in for 30 seconds of a summer game. the kids playing the whole game or most of it are the ones who will actually make the team. did you son play the majority of the games?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
FYI -- Many coaches have already scoped out the area's middle schoolers (camps, tournaments, AAU teams) and may have already "recruited" some players including transfers. When my son was in 7th grade, a head coach approached me after a camp to express interest in my son (experienced AAU player) and asked if he would consider transferring to his school, into a legit HS program (not the homeless BS). He did legitimately transfer and started on JV.

I know it happens because I have seen it. But, its so unfair to the 2800+ kids at the mega publics to have coaches telling more kids to transfer in to take spots on the team. Basketball teams are so small already! The public schools need to shut down all these BS 'language' or IB/AP transfers. Kids can move into a school zone if they want to attend that school. Or, they can play at the school where they live.

The brother of one of the top female college players in the country was recruited from Wakefield to Marshall. It happens.

[Anonymous]

Those are two different counties. So his entire family moved in bounds for Marshall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those are two different counties. So his entire family moved in bounds for Marshall?

HAHAHAHA. Good one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those are two different counties. So his entire family moved in bounds for Marshall?

The family has two homes. One is in Arlington and the other in Falls Church. The kids could go to either school. Idk about any recruiting.