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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get your complaint? Life is not fair? College admissions are weird? Why do you care what other families are doing with their kids?

Also the NCAA athletes are not playing high school sports for the most part. And they certainly are not playing JV[/quote]

Most NCAA athletes play high schools sports…100% of all football players, 90%+ for basketball and baseball and softball and LAX et al.

Soccer is the one exception for team sports.  Yeah, I get that most high schools don’t have fencing teams or other country club NCAA sports (though actually crew probably has 50%+ competing for their high school), but the sheer numbers are slanted towards the team sports.[/quote]

Basketball, soccer, swim, lacrosse, gymnastics, and even field hockey are all playing club. They are not just playing HS. [/quote]

And for gymnastics, club is the only thing that matters. Legitimate D1 prospects are doing 30+ hours a week. Most (but not all) states don't allow gymnasts to do high school and club at the same time. Because of how the club gymnasts season is structured, it's incredibly difficult to take a season off of club to do HS, so high school is very much second or even third tier. It used to be strong HS gymnasts could join D3 college teams, but even that is increasingly rare. These days, to have a shot at D3 you have to be doing 25-30 hours a week in club, if not more. Qualifiers to level 10 nationals are going to some D3 school! It's absolutely insane.[/quote]

Are there even HS gymnastics teams in the DMV?

I don’t disagree that there are minimal or zero HS teams in D1 sports like fencing, gymnastics, hockey (there are some private and public HS teams…but few), etc.

Soccer is the outlier in that every HS has a team but it’s standard for club teams to discourage/prohibit playing in HS.

Baseball, football, lax, basketball…everyone plays HS and none of the top club teams (there are none for football) play during the HS season.[/quote]

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