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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, Deal baseball and basketball are incredibly competitive and the kids are all travel-level athletes.  
Baseball this past year had 100+ kids for 25 or so spots and as you know, only 9 play kids actually play at any one time.   So most of the 25 rarely or ever played. 
My kid is on his Little League summer All-star team and has played travel ball since U9 and didn't make the team as a 6th grader (they had a mixed 6-8 grade team). 
Also, tryouts were crazy because there was one person evaluating 100+ kids.  So there were a number of top kids who just didn't even get seen. 
The games (as mentioned above) are a joke and all the kids are playing on several other teams outside of school.

Basketball is also crazy competitive.  The kids I know on it the type of players who are spending this summer at sleep-away basketball training camps at Division 1 colleges.  Lol.  
In case that gives you an idea of how seriously they take basketball.

All of the above are a function of Deal being a really large school.  It's hard to stand out.

That said, there are plenty of sports opportunities for kids who aren't prodigy level athletes:  cross country, track, ultimate frisbee, archery.  Even things like soccer and volleyball. 
If your boys want to play a sport at Deal they can find a way![/quote]

To be fair, even if Deal size were to be cut in half, it would still be similarly competitive, just 60 kids trying out for 15-20 spots. It’s more nature of the type of parents/kids that are IB for Deal. Perret’s that have no problem paying $200/hour for private b-ball training. Hardy is becoming the same. A friend who plays two AAU competitive teams didn’t make the 6th grade b-ball team at Hardy.[/quote]

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