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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]SJC robotics team performs well in competitions.  I am surprised there are any requirements to join.  I haven’t heard that’s the case.  However during the main season (January to April), it’s like a varsity sport time wise.

Regarding sports, you can walk on to freshman teams and get playing time, but it gets less at JV and then nonexistent at varsity (unless you turn out to be a superstar…I am sure that has happened though I never witnessed with my own eyeballs).

You still have to practice just as hard as everyone else, so you need to decide if it is worth it to be on the varsity team junior and senior year and get almost zero playing time.

Teams like XCountry, rugby and crew are no cut or nearly no cut.[/quote]

The freshman teams are not walk on. This is misinformation except for running. Not even golf or tennis took any freshman boys. Baseball took 1 non-recruited freshman from tryouts.

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That’s a change for baseball…my kid graduated three years ago and the freshman team at that time had 7-8 freshman walkons.  It was a large team.

That was the tail end of a bit of a debacle with kids like James Wood and like 6 others leaving SJC, so it’s possible that thinned the upper ranks and artificially created openings down the line.[/quote]

There would never be that many walkons for the baseball team. What your son probably saw were recruited baseball players who were allowed to play freshman football and did not participate with the fall travel team.  Then they participated in the spring baseball tryouts and made the team, but they were not “walkons.”
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