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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Many thanks for the suggestions. At St. Anselm's, are very strong athletes challenged athletically? DS isn't an "athletic 1%-er," but he's well into the top decile and he plays with passion. I love the idea of him playing a different sport each season (which I'm not positive he could pull off at Gonzaga or St. John's), but I'd also like him to experience different roles on different teams -- not always be the star. Would St. Anselm's offer that in a class of only 40 boys?[/quote]

if you son is a very strong athlete in soccer or lacrosse then his club team will surely provide much more of a challenge than the competition that St. Anselm's varsity teams face.  College recruiting for soccer and lacrosse is done through club teams not high schools, anyway.

If he plays basketball or baseball or an individual sport like wrestling or track, then I suggest you look on the St. Anselms website at the schools that St. Anselm's plays against to try to figure out whether he is likely to be challenged playing in high school.   Nobody is going to choose St. Anselm's for the sports teams, but still some very good athletes have decided to go to St. Anselm's.  In the last couple of years St. Anselm's has had an all-met basketball player, a DC state wrestling champion.  One of last years graduates was a 3-sport varsity captain (baseball, soccer and wrestling) who was featured in a Washington Post article.

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