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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are dozens of schools where your child will find a successful path to a good hs education, fulfilling hs career, and a college roster. There is no reason to roll the dice with a controversial coach or years on the bench. Make a list of schools that are an academic fit and not a horrible commute, and meet with those coaches. You’ll find a fit. You don’t need a big baseball program for your kid to play college baseball. Colleges come to watch specific players - if they’re interested in your kid they’ll watch him no matter what team he’s on (and it will rarely be during the hs season anyway) 
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This is the right answer.  SJC, Gonzaga, DJO are great baseball programs in the WCAC, but there are strong programs that consistently send kids to D1 from STA, Landon, Prep, Potomac, Flint Hill.  Find the school, figure out if the team will work for your kid, and decide whether you want to [b]join a program that runs all baseball training through the school or if your kid is better off training outside of the school time.[/b][/quote]

I cannot speak to SJC, which I appreciate could be different, but I know current varsity and recent college players at both D1/D3 levels from: STA, Gonzaga, DJO, and Landon.   All of them spent loads and loads of time outside of school with their club teams, at showcases and with individual hitting or pitching coaches. For college recruits, that was pretty much all they did outside school especially starting end of sophomore year.  Baseball is highly competence.

I will also say that in my experience you know who the potential D1 recruits were in 8th grade.  None of the very good baseball players in 8th became D1 but many of ended up D3.   Also, many of those potential D1ers all went D3.   It’s not rockets science in college recruiting—if you can’t throw very very high 80s, you aren’t even on D1 radar.  Same with exit velocity.  Once you reach those levels, there are a lot of additional factors coaches are looking at but there just aren’t that many local kids who can reach those numbers for D1.  [/quote]

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