TJ sports recruiting
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Anonymous
Not difficult to find. This is one, but there’s plenty more. And there are many parents at TJ who would be happy to talk to new parents about how their kids were able to successfully combine academics and athletics at TJ. “It’s extremely important to our Activities Office that students at TJ know they can excel academically and athletically during their 4 years here. It’s also important that our athletes know that there are a lot of college/university options that could be a great fit for them both academically and athletically at the NCAA Division I, II, and III level,” Director of Student Activities Mr. Forshay said.” https://www.tjtoday.org/35257/sports/student-athletes-attend-ncaa-signing-ceremony/ |
Anonymous
FYI D3 does not offer athletic scholarships. Now can you get an academic scholarship and be a recruited D3 athlete? Absolutely. And yes please find some actual parents of TJ athletes who were recruited or walked on. We exist. |
Anonymous
Era! I'm curious if the MIT one was just for show? As far as I know (former athelete at MIT) we didn't have signings. |
Anonymous
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Fairfax base schools appear to have a much higher success rate compared to TJ, for NCAA signings.
https://www.cityoffairfaxschools.org/apps/news/article/1773784 |
Anonymous
| When NCAA is mentioned to TJ students, chances are higher it may spark a discussion about a chemical compound in Rotavirus or something similar, rather than sports. |
Anonymous
Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college. |
Anonymous
TJ students put academics first, TJ sports coaches want academics first. Not NCAA. As the overwhelming success rate shows, FCPS base schools provide better path to NCAA, where athletic students are not burdened with mandatory calculus, and can easily graduate with just Algebra 2. |
Anonymous
Have you ever met a TJ coach? I have, many times. They didn't give jack squat about my academics. |
Anonymous
For NCAA d1/d2, minimum GPA required is 2.2, which is practically doable from any FCPS base high school. What is the minimum GPA required to graduate from TJ? |
Anonymous
Why do you care so much about putting forth a stereotype of TJ kids who only care about academics? Sure, some kids at TJ can only deal with academics and don’t have time for anything else, but there are plenty of TJ kids who have time for sports, music, art, theatre, and many other outside activities. My child who graduated from TJ was highly involved with athletics while there and so I also knew many other TJ kids who were just as involved. Are you a TJ parent? If you are, it puzzles me that you seem to be unaware of the importance of sports to many TJ kids. This is not a subject I’m just guessing about. As I said, my own child was an athlete at TJ and I got to know his friends and their families. I watched and cheered at many meets/games and drove carloads of kids to quite a few state and regional competitions over the years, so I am well aware of the level of skill and talent these kids have. I personally know many TJ students who were either recruited or walked on to Division I schools like Georgia Tech, MIT, Michigan, West Point, the Naval Academy, Cornell, Virginia Tech, and others that I can’t remember at the moment. Again, I don’t see why anyone wants to paint a picture of TJ students that simply is not true. OP, if you are interested in knowing more about being an athlete at TJ, just call the school and ask to be connected with a TJ parent who can give you a better idea of reality than a random internet poster who seems not very knowledgeable about sports at TJ. Or go to a game or meet and chat with parents in the stands. |
Anonymous
Minimum required is 3.0 |
Anonymous
The stereotype given to athletes, at least, is that NCAA coaches are a great deal about your GPA, because in many less-important (read: money making) sports they can give you more money for your academics than your athletics, so they are likely to recruit athletes who are both amazing athletes AND amazing students. High school coaches do not have that incentive to care - no, not even at TJ. |
Anonymous
Convinced there is one or many trolls on this board who want to paint pictures of both TJ kids and AAP kids as 99.9th percentile students who sit in their rooms and study for 12 hours a day, never sleeping and only doing school. Any kid who doesn't fit this mold must only be in on "equity." This is why anyone with real TJ connections or kids in actual AAP programs is baffled by what they read here. Because while there is the occasional TJ kid who only sits in their room and studies, and while there is the occasional AAP kid who is truly a super-genius, there aren't nearly enough for a stereotype. |
Anonymous
| Getting recruited into even a ncaa division iii is a challenge in itself, and taking on TJ academic rigor is an unnecessary mountain to climb. Base school offers more academic flexibility with min 2.2 gpa, no calc, athletics focused peer environment, competitive mindset, etc. |
Anonymous
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It's not any more complicated than what I said earlier. There are plenty of TJ students who would easily be able to be recruited to, let's say, Bridgewater or Eastern Mennonite or Christopher Newport or Virginia Wesleyan, like many athletes in Fairfax County.
But when those same TJ athletes are being accepted to go to Harvard or Princeton or Duke or UVA, places where they are not good enough to make the team, they're going to go to the academically prestigious institution. |