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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our private HS always has about 7-8 Ivy rowers.  Rugby gets many too.[/quote]

The rowers are all tall--the recruits (males).  A lot of kids got phased out of it be end of HS.  Of course, except for the cockswain.[/quote]

A few notes--

The vast majority of kids who row in hs are not getting recruited for college rowing. As a PP said, many HSs in the DMV have crew, often with several boats for boys and several for girls (as in teams of 25 or more for each gender) and very few of them go on to row in college. For D1 colleges, boys generally are 6'3" or taller (usually more like 6'5") and girls usually top 6 feet. D3 might be ok with dropping down an inch or two in height, but it's just hard to be competitive at the collegiate level without enough reach. And then, of course, the kid has to be really good. By junior year, the student has to be in one of the better seats in the top boat. Finally, this isn't football or basketball. A coach may have a couple or few spots where he or she has some real pull and can get in kids who likely wouldn't get admitted through the regular process. But there aren't very many spots that really are hooks, and thus most kids getting in on their own even if the coach puts in a good word. Two other points:  lightweight crew and club crew usually get no special consideration in admissions. And there is a lot of competition now for spots at some colleges from international students who are often on the junior national teams from their home countries.  The majority of Harvard and Yale men's crews are from UK, NZ, Switzerland, and Australia.

Bottomline is (at least for a kid with height in the top 1%), going with rowing instead of soccer probably gives your child a greater chance of being recruited in college, but it's still a narrow path there, especially if you want it to be a "hook" into a better school.[/quote]

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