What private school/s have the best sports programs for boys + girls?

[Anonymous]

Landon has always aimed for 90 incoming boys. Every class loses kids as the HS years go on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Like I said, Landon daddy, you heard it here first. Check with the lax dads (will they be at Hooters with the Landon baseball team crowd?) re: the recent Prep/Landon head to head results. Once Landon gets Prep kicked out, they'll have the highest boys' enrollment in the IAC. And I am sure they will win more banners in their top sport: the freshman fantasy sex league.

Honestly, get a life. Sure the freshmen boys made a mistake but they went through their punishments and my guess is that they have learned and moved on. Be shameful for bringing it up again for no reason. Some of these DCUM parents are so classless.

Incorrect use of "shameful"--the word "ashamed" is what you are looking for. Sentence with correct usage for "shameful": "The behavior of the Landon JV lacrosse players in forming a fantasy sex league was shameful. One hopes the boys involved are ashamed of what they did. Perhaps the publicity will shame the school into examining its misogynistic culture."

Wow... I am proud of you correcting my sentence. Yes what the kids did was wrong and hurtful to many of the girls and parents. However, as I said, they went through extensive counseling and other punishments where they obviously learned a lesson. Now I am not applying the quote which you are probably thinking of; "boys will be boys." But, sure they did a mistake but they are teenagers. Teenagers make mistakes, get punishes, move on and learn. Just let go of the topic because honestly, it's old news and boys have learnt and moved on. Again, Classless parents on DCUM are ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

i meant "Teenagers make mistakes, get *punished*

[Anonymous]

It does sound like Landon is trying to move forward in a positive way and use past incidents as a wake-up call. It is not the only school where respect for girls/women is an issue (which in turn says a lot about the dominant American culture).

[Anonymous]

Indeed pp. G'town Visi is hosting a series in the fall for all of the heads of the privates about boy/girl behavior and abuse.

[Anonymous]

I cannot believe that some of what I read here is writtten by responsible mature parents. The bitterness, insults and rumors thrown about are unnecessary, unhelpful and embarassing. I can't imagine my parents' generation acting like this.

As for the boys schools sports programs, all the IAC schools provide many opportunites. Don't think that Prep, with its multi million dollar field house, or Landon, with its lacrosse legacy, are the only ones. The catholic schools in the WCAC also have strong programs. There's definitely a dropoff in overall quality in the MAC, although Sidwell had the best soccer team in the area in 2009. Most of these schools offer similar opportunities. I would discourage picking a school based on the hope that your child will get a scholarship for a specific sport in college, there are too many variables involved. You should first decide on single sex vs co-ed, religious ve non-denominational and then visit the schools to get an idea of the best "fit". There are so many good schools in this area, if your child is interested in playing competitive sports, s/he will be able to anywhere.

To those of you who may have read an earlier post that Prep and Landon are trying to move away from playing each other, do not believe it. Anybody who knows the coaches and admins involved will tell you that they enjoy the rivalry and would never back down from the challenge.

[Anonymous]

Prep and Landon may still play each other, but Landon wants to win titles, so they are lobbying to kick Prep out of the IAC. You will hear more about it in the next 1-2 years.

[Anonymous]

This is the same false rumor that has been posted over the years on high school sports websites. It often ends with, "I can't tell you how I know, but you will see in a few years." It has never happened.

Saying that Landon wants to kick out Prep in order to win titles shows how little you know about the sports environment at Landon. They have always sought out the most competitive opponents in all their sports in order to challenge themselves. Please stop wasting people's time on this website.

[Anonymous]

Like I said, it is ongoing and you will hear more about it. Feel free to disregard as a false rumor until then--I'm not free to disclose the source(s).

[Anonymous]

FYI, this has been discussed at IAC schools at the Board level.

[Anonymous]

I have no reason to believe Landon is trying to kick prep outo fthe IAC. But for those who claim to know, what is the reasoning behind it? What i mean by that, is what is Landon's argument for removing prep from the IAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:31 here. I'm not complaining about anything, and couldn't care less about 12 year olds playing football; just noting that STA beat Landon in football two out of last three years but that neither compete well with Prep. The word on the street is that Landon fears more lacrosse losses to Prep and is agitating to chuck 'em out of the IAC for lacrosse too . . .

Landon has zero credibility here. Kick prep out of the iac when Landon has been sporting 19-year-old seniors for decades?? Take prep out of the iac with sidwell having already departed 10 years ago and you lose a lot of polish to what was once the proudest prep school sports conferences in the country. Prep was kicked out of iac football in the early 1970s and were reinstated. The same willl happen again. If anything, they should kick Landon out of the league for being such an embarassment.

[Anonymous]

and georgetown prep has no 19 year old seniors? All those MD boys are 15 when they start at Prep.

[Anonymous]

The argument is that Prep is too big-- they are close to 500 boys in their Upper School. Landon has the next biggest pool of athletes, with 350-360 boys, then St. Albans has 310-320. The co-Ed schools in the IAC like Bullis and SSSA have something like 200 boys at most. So at 500 boys, Prep would have 150% bigger athletic pool than the co-Ed schools and would have a 40% advantage over Landon, the school with the second largest pool of potential athletes. The numerical handicap between co-Ed and boys' school is the big reason Sidwell left the IAC early in the decade, and the other co-Ed schools struggle with it too.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't Gillman compete with Dematha and other big schools with 450 boys - putting it on par with Landon competing against prep. What else can Landon whine about?