TJ sports recruiting

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

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.

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.

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.

Agree, but I don’t really get it. I mean do they hate the idea of disadvantaged kids going to TJ so much that they want to paint every successful TJ athlete as “undeserving” of being there?

Ad it’s so odd, because there are so many talented athletes at TJ who are also equally academically talented. I’ve known quite a few of them over the years, and this is going back a number of years, so the troll can’t blame the newer admissions process which they seem to be so irritated about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

People don't understand the serious effort that a student athlete puts into their sport starting from kindergarten years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

People don't understand the serious effort that a student athlete puts into their sport starting from kindergarten years.

It depends on the kid, the sport, and the level of talent. The many TJ kids I’ve known who have combined high level academics and high level sports have been great kids who have been successful in college and in the first few years after so far. Quite a few of them still involved in their sports, too!

[Anonymous]

They have at least 9 commits this year, probably more.

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Each base school has over 25 commits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

People don't understand the serious effort that a student athlete puts into their sport starting from kindergarten years.

It depends on the kid, the sport, and the level of talent. The many TJ kids I’ve known who have combined high level academics and high level sports have been great kids who have been successful in college and in the first few years after so far. Quite a few of them still involved in their sports, too!

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Anonymous wrote:Each base school has over 25 commits

Well given the trolls that are saying either a TJ is a grindy nerd that studies all the time OR doesn't belong there, having any athletic recruits from TJ is amazing. Bc the "kids that don't belong there" certainly didn't come for the sports.

Congrats to all the recruited athletes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each base school has over 25 commits

That is not true for most schools. Please provide links.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

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.

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.

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.

Agree, but I don’t really get it. I mean do they hate the idea of disadvantaged kids going to TJ so much that they want to paint every successful TJ athlete as “undeserving” of being there?

Ad it’s so odd, because there are so many talented athletes at TJ who are also equally academically talented. I’ve known quite a few of them over the years, and this is going back a number of years, so the troll can’t blame the newer admissions process which they seem to be so irritated about.

Yes, they do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Each base school has over 25 commits

That is not true for most schools. Please provide links.

Fairfax High School Celebrates 32 Student Athletes in NCAA Ceremony

https://www.cityoffairfaxschools.org/apps/news/article/1773784

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Why stereotype like this? TJ students as a group have a wide variety of interests, so include playing sports in college.

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.

Have you ever met a TJ coach? I have, many times. They didn't give jack squat about my academics.

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?
Minimum required is 3.0

Need to be lowered to 2.2 at TJ as well, to keep it fair and equitable for all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Each base school has over 25 commits

That is not true for most schools. Please provide links.

Fairfax High School Celebrates 32 Student Athletes in NCAA Ceremony

https://www.cityoffairfaxschools.org/apps/news/article/1773784

This is a tremendous number and should be celebrated. But it's worth mentioning that only six of them will be attending schools that TJ students generally would even consider.

Almost by definition, if you choose to attend TJ, you are prioritizing academics to a significant extent. That's not necessarily at the expense of athletics, as it's been demonstrated repeatedly that students can have a tremendous athletic experience at TJ that in many cases exceeds what they could get at their base school. But it shouldn't come as a surprise that these kids end up making their college decisions based on their ceilings as students rather than their ceilings as athletes.

Every one of the top six tennis players on both the boys and girls side at TJ could play in college if they want to. Same is true of most of their top swimmers and many of their top runners. Heck, this year the boys basketball team could have sent 4-5 kids to play in college, and a couple of them were actually heavily recruited. But when these kids are getting into Princeton and Cornell and Harvard (in part because of their athletic success even though they're not recruited), they're going to go there.

[Anonymous]

In terms of time commitment, sports at TJ tends to favor the academically advanced students, who often participate throughout all four years, but not as a potential athletic recruit. While many students try out sports during freshman year, quite a few quit by junior year. Some students give up on hopes of improving their GPA, but stay involved with sports for physical and recreational benefits. There are many academically average students who stay involved with sports to enhance their college application profiles.

If a student is serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit, TJ as a stem school is not an ideal place to be in. Base schools have better options and offer academic flexibility with a lower minimum GPA requirement and lighter coursework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In terms of time commitment, sports at TJ tends to favor the academically advanced students, who often participate throughout all four years, but not as a potential athletic recruit. While many students try out sports during freshman year, quite a few quit by junior year. Some students give up on hopes of improving their GPA, but stay involved with sports for physical and recreational benefits. There are many academically average students who stay involved with sports to enhance their college application profiles.

If a student is serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit, TJ as a stem school is not an ideal place to be in. Base schools have better options and offer academic flexibility with a lower minimum GPA requirement and lighter coursework.

The entirety of the above is basically untrue and betrays a lack of understanding of the dynamics within TJ athletics.

The above poster indicated that quite a few students quit by junior year - this is at the very least misleading. Athletic participation rates increase year over year at TJ as students recognize the advantages of being a part of the respective teams and witness their classmates navigating the process successfully. Some do quit - a huge chunk of that is self-selection out of the process because they either get cut for Varsity teams or assume they will get cut.

Students of all academic levels at TJ have their college application profiles enhanced by participation in athletics - it's not just the "academically average" ones, whatever is meant by that.

And it's patently untrue that students serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit would be better served at a base school. Students choosing to attend TJ will almost always, especially in team sports, have a greater chance to compete at the Varsity level earlier at TJ than they would at their base school.

This is yet another example of a parent who is probably trying to encourage people to decline their offers of admission in order to improve their child's chances of being recalled off of the waitlist. Take these posters with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In terms of time commitment, sports at TJ tends to favor the academically advanced students, who often participate throughout all four years, but not as a potential athletic recruit. While many students try out sports during freshman year, quite a few quit by junior year. Some students give up on hopes of improving their GPA, but stay involved with sports for physical and recreational benefits. There are many academically average students who stay involved with sports to enhance their college application profiles.

If a student is serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit, TJ as a stem school is not an ideal place to be in. Base schools have better options and offer academic flexibility with a lower minimum GPA requirement and lighter coursework.

The entirety of the above is basically untrue and betrays a lack of understanding of the dynamics within TJ athletics.

The above poster indicated that quite a few students quit by junior year - this is at the very least misleading. Athletic participation rates increase year over year at TJ as students recognize the advantages of being a part of the respective teams and witness their classmates navigating the process successfully. Some do quit - a huge chunk of that is self-selection out of the process because they either get cut for Varsity teams or assume they will get cut.

Students of all academic levels at TJ have their college application profiles enhanced by participation in athletics - it's not just the "academically average" ones, whatever is meant by that.

And it's patently untrue that students serious about improving their chances as an athletic recruit would be better served at a base school. Students choosing to attend TJ will almost always, especially in team sports, have a greater chance to compete at the Varsity level earlier at TJ than they would at their base school.

This is yet another example of a parent who is probably trying to encourage people to decline their offers of admission in order to improve their child's chances of being recalled off of the waitlist. Take these posters with a grain of salt.

The PP's writing is so stilted I suspect some troll ran things through ChatGTP for their own amusement. Why trolling about everyone dropping out of sports by junior year at TJ is so fun for some random person on the internet I cannot fathom.