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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]... "Every private school recruits in some way" is a poor excuse. STA does not.[/quote]
Oh really?  Here's St. Albans' football coach talking about recruiting in the Washington Post.  http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-12-12/sports/36886723_1_coaches-private-school-montrose-christian
[quote][Recruiting turned] Hyattsville Catholic school into a national basketball power. After that, many coaches said, it was a matter of trying to keep pace. It only makes sense that coaches recruit in other sports, too.  "More often than not, it's a matter of trying to keep up with the Joneses," St. Albans football coach Gary Schnell said.[/quote]
I guess he doesn't explicitly say "STA recruits athletes," but he might as well have said it.[/quote]

I read it.  All he said was that high school recruiting is about "keeping up with the Joneses."  (Which I'd agree with.)

I would not categorically say St. Albans doesn't "recruit" in any sport, because I don't have the knowledge to say that.  And I know that within the past decade, with different coaches in some of the programs, they did more searching out of athletes and trying to get them to apply, which I'd class as recruiting.  At the current time, though, they probably are the school in the IAC that recruits the least, and where the admissions standards are also relaxed the least.  Everything is cyclical, so who is to say that in ten years if they get a different head of school, etc., they won't be front and center of the recruiting process.  But it is not a major focus now, and they are certainly not doing things like bringing in athletes senior year, or getting athletes from league schools and having them repeat a grade, or having family members of coaches make first contact with families, as occurs at some other league schools.  Again, though, it's a cyclical thing.[/quote]

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