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[quote=Anonymous]All of the private schools recruit.  The most intense recruiting is in boys' sports, whether it is all-boys' schools or the co-ed schools.  There is less recruiting for girls' sports, but still some -- it depends on the school and the sports.  There are no athletic scholarships in the Independent School League (the big private school girls league) or the two main independent school boys' leagues (IAC and MAC).  Rumors do circulate on occasion that some of the schools seem to find the financial need more acute where the child is most adept.

As with everything, the level of recruiting differs greatly by school, coach, and sport.  One classic is to use a school "affiliate," so to speak, to get around the "no first contact" rule.  For example, it just so happens that one of the sons of Landon's head lacrosse coach is a youth coach in the area.  He aggressively tries to steer lacrosse players (sometimes even those who have committed to other schools) to his father's program.  In basketball, it is very common to have a local AAU coach as the assistant or head coach of the program, so the coach can steer players to the school.  The recently disgraced assistant girls coach at GDS, for example, was an AAU coach who had helped direct a number of players (who went on to play Division I college ball) to GDS.

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