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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is elite level athlete?  You are either recruitable, or not recruitable.  [/quote]

You can be recruitable but choosing not to play. If a girl was a starter on a nationally ranked team but chose not to play they still have a fantastic EC. If they were a captain on the team even better. They were elite at their main EC which is the bar.[/quote]

Definitely not true and I say this as a parent of varsity atheletes.  If your kid is not an athletic recruit, sports are among the useless ecs.  May get some leadership points if kid is a varsity captain, but others pretty useless as far as admission as  impact.[/quote]

My son was a varsity captain of his basketball team but not a recruited athlete but 3 kids on his team were high D1 recruited.[b] The varsity captain helped college admissions tremendously [/b]in addition to his strong academics.  [/quote]

Source for this? Where is he going? Captains of teams are ok but generally meaningless. There are many of them at every school...[/quote]

lol ok whatever you say.[/quote]

Not whatever I say...how many captains of sports teams are at your school alone? No multiply that out by the schools in your county, state, and the country. This is a massive number of kids. At our HS, a single team might have 5-7 senior captains PER SPORT. It is not like the captains do anything truly impactful. Maybe some team bonding, working on stuff for the end banquet, leading cheers, etc. That's about the extent of it.[/quote]

But how many varsity captains have an UW 4.0 and a 1500+ SAT?  
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At our private, where a third of the kids have  SATs over 1500, a good amount just at our school.  And we play nearly all sports in the very competitive MIAA-A conference.[/quote]

So among those top third, who are presumably competing against each other for spots at top 20, varsity success/captain (-D1 or Ivy+ recruited excluded) doesn't move the needle?  [/quote]

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