St James Academy

[Anonymous]

St James sales pitch was getting kids to play in college but I don't see any evidence that is the case on their social media.

Where are they posting all the college commits they are getting on exchange for 30k+ tuition a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St James sales pitch was getting kids to play in college but I don't see any evidence that is the case on their social media.

Where are they posting all the college commits they are getting on exchange for 30k+ tuition a year?

when your only real comp was a 35-0 running clock blowout, your film doesn't mean much

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Anonymous wrote:Lets pretend there really are 5, hell lets say there's 7.

2500 kids at Westfield.

500+ involved in athletics.

That's barely over 1%.

An extreme outlier to the data set, but again, still in the 1% range.

Lets say Westfield enrollment went down.

2400 kids.

400 in athletics.

7 reclasses.

Still, in the less than 2% range

We aren’t talking about the entire school population, we are talking about the basketball team. People are upset because it creates a maturity disadvantage for some of the kids who haven’t reclassed.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please, my two kids play basketball in a large FCPS HS and I can think of more than 5 reclasses just on the boys basketball teams.

Westfields has more than 5.

No, they don't. Do they have more than 5 transfers? Yes. More than 5 reclassed kids, no.

Practially the entire team has been playing on various AAU teams since they were children. A simple search on PrepHoops shows what age bracket and class the majority of the team has been in since middle school lol.

Let's stop spewing nonsense and drop hard facts...

Name 5 or more reclassed kids, besides Malachi.

Ready, go...

If you understood what’s going on in basketball, you would know that you can’t tell how old a kid is by which bracket they play in. Kids that reclassed play with their grade most of the time.

Kids that should be playing 17u are playing 15u and 16u and are 19 year olds playing 17u.

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You are allowed to reclass, its within the current VHSL rules.

With the new VHSL transfer rules going into effect this summer all the big publics should have a lot fewer reclasses and transfers playing.

You're allowed to reclass, but you can still only play 4 years of VHSL sports. Once you enroll as a freshman, your 4 year clock starts, so you better reclass in elementary or middle school.

Better hope you were born at the right time too because if you reclass and turn 19 before August 1st of your senior year, you're ineligible.

With the new VHSL rules, parents are going to have to make the reclass and transfer decisions before the 8th grade year so their kid is enrolled at the proper feeder middle school. That new 365 day ban is going to hit some kids like a freight train if they do this wrong.

It's kind of funny to see the super seniors at St. James - kids that reclassed in middle school then played 4 years in a VHSL public school, then reclassed again and went to the St. James after their public school senior season.

Crazy an athlete could hypothetically: reclass in middle school, play 4 years VHSL, reclass again and transfer to a private school, go to prep school, play 9 games in college & redshirt, then play 4 more years. Graduating college at 25-26.

Also juco is no longer counted towards eligibility. I know a kid that reclassed in middle school, played basketball at O’Connell, played 2 years at a Juco, and started his first of college basketball this year.

[Anonymous]

Weird question, but is it still a commuter school or do they have housing do the kids?

I’ve seen a few transfers from spotsylvania and stafford and that would be a long drive on a daily basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nephew plays for Westfield. Including him they have 3.

6 on that team were identified, but someone had the post removed. Another one, who transferred out after the season started was also mentioned making it 7.

4 are seniors, 1 is a sophomore, 1 is a freshman, and the one the transferred out after the season started was also a sophomore.

[Anonymous]

how is the track team doing at VA Showcase?

they are definitely putting the hard sell on local track talent- the main selling point seems to be if you are going to run D1 you need to be able to take classes remotely and do work on your own. Seems like an odd flex. Also, D1 programs offer way more support than STJ has!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird question, but is it still a commuter school or do they have housing do the kids?

I’ve seen a few transfers from spotsylvania and stafford and that would be a long drive on a daily basis.

The basketball team has kids from NY and Connecticut. They are probably hosted a lot during the season but live, train, and attend school from home for the most part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St James sales pitch was getting kids to play in college but I don't see any evidence that is the case on their social media.

Where are they posting all the college commits they are getting on exchange for 30k+ tuition a year?

In their defense, it's the first year of the program and as time moves on they will likely become more prolific in their college success stories. They did send a bunch of kids to college.

2 to Maryland
1 to James Madison
1 to Howard
1 to Norfolk St

A few more to D2 programs

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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.

There are very few 16yo seniors, but I agree a kid who turns 19 in August should be headed to college. All the kids in between are going to be 99% of the actual seniors.

[Anonymous]

I've never heard of a 16 year old senior, that's very odd to me. Kids turn 17 as juniors.

Regardless, its within the VHSL rules to reclass up until the age cutoff so anyone can choose to do it, if they want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weird question, but is it still a commuter school or do they have housing do the kids?

I’ve seen a few transfers from spotsylvania and stafford and that would be a long drive on a daily basis.

They do not offer boarding.

It is a long drive. But part of the sales pitch is that if you come to our program, your kid does not need to got to practice with their club team every night because they are getting 2 hours each day in school. Therefore, you could be free each evening, leaving time to commute to/ from school...like adults do for work.

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Anonymous wrote:Weird question, but is it still a commuter school or do they have housing do the kids?

I’ve seen a few transfers from spotsylvania and stafford and that would be a long drive on a daily basis.

They do not offer boarding.

It is a long drive. But part of the sales pitch is that if you come to our program, your kid does not need to got to practice with their club team every night because they are getting 2 hours each day in school. Therefore, you could be free each evening, leaving time to commute to/ from school...like adults do for work.

Yeah, but a lot of club team coaches aren’t okay with a kid skipping practices

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never heard of a 16 year old senior, that's very odd to me. Kids turn 17 as juniors.

Regardless, its within the VHSL rules to reclass up until the age cutoff so anyone can choose to do it, if they want to.

I turned 17 in October my senior year.