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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prep has many more reclassed kids than any other IAC school.  Combined with the "win at all costs" mentality of the parents, it's no wonder Prep cares more about athletics than anything else.[/quote]

Lies, lies lies. Why all the hate?  Prep neither has more reclassed kids than any other IAC school, nor do they have the mentality of win at all costs.  This is completely ludicrous and invented by haters who are mad Prep is a good school with a strong athletic program. [b]And let's not forget that reclassing students for athletic prowess really only benefits middle schoolers and maybe freshman, but by the time kids are playing Varsity sports they are fully grown and developed so it doesn't really make a difference.[/b] Sure some kids repeated a grade in elementary because they needed to (just like any other school) and Mater Dei is known to encourage kids to repeat if needed, but this does not mean all kids from MD repeat nor does it mean kids repeat for sports. Not to mention the freshman class, just like every other class at Prep, is made up of boys from about 70 different middle schools. Boys come from Catholic schools, Independents, and publics in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and multiple other states and, of course, international schools around the world.[/quote]

Glad you believe that[/quote]

You should too. No difference when a junior plays a senior in high school. Growth has taken place and muscle memory and other factors have taken place thru puberty. When you get to college there will be no differentiating. [/quote]

This is not true.  I continued growing freshman year of college.  I didn't "fill out" until senior year.

Peak athletic performance varies by sport.  For things like gymnastics, it is as young as 16-17.  But most sports it is mid-twenties.  Things have not "evened out" by junior year.  (See, e.g., Michael Jordan).

You are also forgetting all the playing time the redshirted kids get from middle school onwards.  Studies of canadian hockey players show a very disproportionate percentage of them were born in the month before the age cutoffs for youth hockey.  They were frequently the oldest / biggest kid on the youth hockey team and so got the lion's share of the touches and coaching time.

Just admit that you want to advantage your kids and correspondingly disadvantage all the other kids.  Don't pretend that you just randomly did something that has no purpose.

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Yeah I'm not sure where that poster is getting his/her basis of knowledge.  Maybe golf. [/quote]

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