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[quote=Anonymous]I feel like you were given the wrong impression by your tour guide. I wonder if you had the boys varsity lacrosse coach? We have several kids who range from standout athlete to not at all athletic there. They all play and love the Potomac athletics, so you don’t at all have to be amazing to play. 
In 4th-6th PE, they do units of each sport offered in IS. Then in IS (7th and 8th), they have to do something each of the 3 seasons. So far this year volleyball is the only one that cut and that’s bc of court space. Many kids in school sport have never played it before. Some have a & b or a, b & c teams. For winter they can also do weights & conditioning which is like PE or the musical. IS only has athletics 4 days a week, so if they want to do debate or robotics, that’s on wednesdays, the non athletics day. 
In US, they have to do something 2 of the 3 seasons, and one has to be “sweaty”. The musicals count as sweaty or they have weights and conditioning. A lot of kids just do a okay and the musical. Backstage roles count for credit, too. If you want 2 seasons of debate, they can add in running/walking to one of them to make it count as sweaty. There is a running team option each season that really pushes personal improvement and is incredibly welcoming. Robotics counts as one or two seasons, too. I think all the jv teams except tennis and volleyball and boys bb are no cut.
It’s only cliquey to the extent you end up spending a lot of time with the kids who have your same interests in US. For example, many of the theater kids are also in chorus as a class together and they often take theater classes or do the VPAC concentration, so are together a good part of the day. One of my kids does robotics and loves it so much that he goes every conference block and lunch period so does spend a lot of time with his team. For a different season he does a varsity sport so is then with those kids a lot. I guess it could appear that kids divide up by their activity, but there’s really a group for everyone.
My kids who are on varsity sports actually had never played those sports other than PE until 7th grade at school and were stressed at the time for which sports options to pick, so you definitely can still play at a high level at Potomac without already doing the sport outside of school.
I think to be accepted you need to not just have good grades but be a standout at something but that something doesn’t need to be athletics. [/quote]

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