Sports recruitment for high school

[Anonymous]

Very helpful responses. Thanks very much---OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very helpful responses. Thanks very much---OP

Good luck, OP. As a parent with a son who plays baseball at one of the schools mentioned prominently above, I really hope your son joins our team!

[Anonymous]

STA baseball is average. They haven't even won their league title in a few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA baseball is average. They haven't even won their league title in a few years.

They won the DC title this year, beating Gonzaga in the semis. Good tradition; well-coached team; known to college coaches. St. John's is a stronger team right now, though.

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Anonymous wrote:St Johns recruited my DS for baseball. We're in NoVA and didn't want to deal with the commute so didn't follow up. Interest came through travel coach connections.

We commute to SJC from NoVa - very easy. Bus too. Depends on where in NoVa i suppose.

[Anonymous]

I would apply to St. Johns or Prep for baseball. You don't have to be Catholic. Have your son try out for the best travel team in your area. Emphasize his interest in baseball in your application in addition to his character and academic accomplishments. Ask your kid's coach if he knows the coaches at Prep or St. Johns and if he does ask him to give them a call. If not, seek out the baseball coach at open house and have your son talk to him ehthusiastically about playing for him. Apply for FA and see what happens. Ignore crtics that say the Catholic high schools are sub par academcially. They are just fine and will prepare your son well for college.

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Look- all the high school coaches typically also private coach out of other places as well- SJC and Prep's coaches have a business called diamondskillsbaseball.com. Go pay for a private lesson or one of their fall/winter clinics with them via that avenue and let them know your interest and plans to apply to SJC and/or Prep AFTER the lesson if they show interest/excitement. Take it from there.

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Anonymous wrote:Bullis administration is a complete joke after allowing a football recruit to be reinstated to the school after a sexual assault charge.

I'm surprised he didn't just head over to Avalon on scholarship.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Johns recruited my DS for baseball. We're in NoVA and didn't want to deal with the commute so didn't follow up. Interest came through travel coach connections.

We commute to SJC from NoVa - very easy. Bus too. Depends on where in NoVa i suppose.

OMG - so you were recruited by one of the top 2 or 3 baseball programs in the area and blew it off. Wow.

[Anonymous]

The answer is probably not OP.

[Anonymous]

I bet you the Bullis football player will leave after the season ends. Bullis is known for bringing in kids for 3 - 4 months.

[Anonymous]

Be careful what you wish for, OP.

Recruited athletes don't always fare well in privates where there are kids who have been there since elementary school. They may play (which maybe is your only concern), but they may not be well-liked or included socially.

This from a Mom whose kid was not recruited, played for years at private and played in college - so I am happy how it turned out for my son, but I can tell you that a bunch of parents of "recruited" players were really resentful and didn't include the recruited kid's parents in their social circle. And, the kid wasn't particularly well-liked.

Maybe that's not on your radar, but it should be.

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Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you wish for, OP.

Recruited athletes don't always fare well in privates where there are kids who have been there since elementary school. They may play (which maybe is your only concern), but they may not be well-liked or included socially.

This from a Mom whose kid was not recruited, played for years at private and played in college - so I am happy how it turned out for my son, but I can tell you that a bunch of parents of "recruited" players were really resentful and didn't include the recruited kid's parents in their social circle. And, the kid wasn't particularly well-liked.

Maybe that's not on your radar, but it should be.

Is this the case with every kid who joins a class late or just those who are recruited athletes? And is it simply because the kid is recruited that parents are cold? Or is because the recruited kid is deemed otherwise inferior (i.e. academically or socially)? Or because the recruited kid is obnoxious or a braggert?
I'm curious what you mean.

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I believe there is some latent hostility from established kids and families at a school against recruited athletes. How can this not take form somewhat? If a kid has been at XYZ since elementary or through middle school & has participated in scholastic teams in those lower grades, that makes for a comfortable comraderie. If those same kids (and their parents who are paying tens of thousands a year in tuition) then find that in the high school grades they are displaced by recruited kids, it can't possibly go well. Of course some preps will field successful teams in certain sports where they have recruited kids in, but that always comes at an integrity and fair play cost.

I don't care what anyone says...when you pay a lot of dough for a school and then your kid comes home crying in 9th or 10th grade because they told him he can't play a kid's game he loves because of the club kids they imported, it's all wrong and it fucking sucks. Some adults -- the crazed administrators at prep sports farms, the crazy parents -- have really done damage to the ethos of high school sports at these IAC and WCAC schools. I know these kids are at the age where there are no more participation trophies, it's all wrong to tell a kid he he structurally out of the picture in a high school sport at his school. Especially when you are also selling ringers on hopping aboard your school just to boost certain sports teams at those schools. It is a dopey way to administer an institution that relies on customer happiness and loyalty via $$$$ tuition and $$$$$$$$ in donations.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe there is some latent hostility from established kids and families at a school against recruited athletes. How can this not take form somewhat? If a kid has been at XYZ since elementary or through middle school & has participated in scholastic teams in those lower grades, that makes for a comfortable comraderie. If those same kids (and their parents who are paying tens of thousands a year in tuition) then find that in the high school grades they are displaced by recruited kids, it can't possibly go well. Of course some preps will field successful teams in certain sports where they have recruited kids in, but that always comes at an integrity and fair play cost.

I don't care what anyone says...when you pay a lot of dough for a school and then your kid comes home crying in 9th or 10th grade because they told him he can't play a kid's game he loves because of the club kids they imported, it's all wrong and it fucking sucks. Some adults -- the crazed administrators at prep sports farms, the crazy parents -- have really done damage to the ethos of high school sports at these IAC and WCAC schools. I know these kids are at the age where there are no more participation trophies, it's all wrong to tell a kid he he structurally out of the picture in a high school sport at his school. Especially when you are also selling ringers on hopping aboard your school just to boost certain sports teams at those schools. It is a dopey way to administer an institution that relies on customer happiness and loyalty via $$$$ tuition and $$$$$$$$ in donations.

Wow. Looks like this touched a raw nerve.