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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one that played basketball year round including AAU. Ultimately not recruitable for D1. Only grew to be 6'2. He lightened up on basketball in junior and senior year so he could focus on school and his other interests. There really aren't a lot of 6'6 athletic 18 year olds out there, but that's what it takes at minimum to be considered for positions like power forward at the good schools. He wasn't a guard, and 6'2 doesn't cut it. So he made the calculated decision to play for fun and use his time to focus on other interests. Went to a T20 for all the other reasons besides basketball.

The other did track. Ran in states and various invitationals. Widely recruited by D3 schools. A few travel costs, but otherwise it was a pair of good running shoes a couple of times a year that was the main expense. A pretty cheap sport all things considered. D3 is manageable for really athletic kids with discipline and drive. Maybe not the 100m, but 400m, 800m, and 1500m are willpower sports. But D1 track can be a different level. Anyone running at Oregon, Texas, and a lot of other schools is competing for the Olympic trials. My track kid declined the D3s and chose a a T20 school D1 school with an opportunity to try out.

D1 sports is for real. Everyone runs. Everyone plays soccer. Everyone plays basketball. Everyone swims. It's not like fencing and raquetball and golf, where it's just a tiny sliver of rich kids competing.

That being said, hockey is the most expensive sport. But anyone from the DMV that is recruitable left for boarding school up north by the age of 15. No one still playing in the DMV at age 17/18 is being recruited by Harvard, BU, Cornell, Notre Dame or even Lake Superior State. But it remains a very expensive sport for those that continue to play at the high school level in this area. Decent skates alone are $1000. Crew too is very expensive. All those regattas add up. Plus, to be recruitable, you will need a good machine to get the ERG score up. That's at least $1500 right there. And it's a huge time suck.

The opportunity cost for athletes in the DMV seems to be highest for hockey and crew. The expense is high. The time commitment is enormous. And no one around here is getting recruited to an Ivy League or BC or Northeastern or any other good hockey school. And crew recruits to top 20 are more anecdotal than reality. How many 6' foot young women with great grades who are killing it with the ERG scores are out there?

The short answer is - do track. [/quote]

For crew…the HS program matters.  Jackson Reed, a DCPS school, has multiple Ivy Plus crew recruits every year.  The school has the machines and the boats and dedicated coaches…kids still pay $3k+ per year.

This year alone, crew has a Stanford and an Ivy commit for women’s crew.  Last year there were three.  Year before boys were national champs and had 5 and girls had 2.

I do think coming from DCPS vs a private school helped a bunch.[/quote]

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