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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends.  My DS made the varsity tennis team at Langley HS as a freshman.  [/quote]

My kid also made the tennis team as a freshman. There is only varsity tennis in fcps. No JV. For your kid and my kid, it doesn’t seem so competitive. For the other 40 kids who came to tryouts and didn’t make the team, they will say it is extremely difficult to make the tennis team.[/quote]

There is no JV in either golf or tennis in FCPS.  They are probably the two most difficult sports due to the small roster size.  It is even more difficult in HS such as Langley, Mclean, and Oakton because just about every kid in the tryouts is either from UMC or UC families.  Those kids are trained at a very young age, since money is not an issue.  The competition to be in the golf or tennis team is ten times worse than the competition in academics.  [/quote]

Wut. As long as you play some tournaments you can make high school team. [/quote]

Not if you attend any of the schools in a  wealthy neighborhood.[/quote]

Everyone here makes everything about wealth.  There is no correlation between wealth and athleticism.  Quite a few private schools require students to participate in a sport after school.  That doesn’t make them all athletes but it’s a great idea.

Sports like basketball can only take a very few kids.  That would be the tall kids who have coordination, hand eye coordination, endurance, fast rubbers, skills necessary to play.  This happens in every town.

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Agreed.  This area in particular has a lot of parents trying to buy their kid a shot, whether it be education or athletics, and then grousing if it doesn’t pan out.

All the private coaching and elite travel in the world provided to pre-pubescent kids won’t mean a thing after the puberty lottery.  And it’s fine if you have the resources and inclination to go for it as long as possible, but the kids who play varsity basketball aren’t playing because their parents were wealthy and got them lots of coaching.  They’re playing because they’re the superior athletes with the right genetics.

(Golf may be a different story, but of course, golf isn’t a sport, or at least not a sport that requires any particular athletic ability.)[/quote]

This is not true at all.  There are tons of sports that require wealth.  Sure it helps if kids have an athletic physique once they go through puberty; however, wealth makes quite a difference in a lot of sports.

Downhill skiing, squash, tennis, golf, hockey, equestrian sports, fencing, ice skating are some examples of sports that require tons of money.  My friend taught at a private school in Florida where it accommodated students' sports schedules which included swimming, tennis, equestrian sports, fencing and car racing.  All of those kids were super wealthy.[/quote]

Okay.  It’s true for these elitist activities you listed which wealthy people call sports because they can’t buy their kid’s way onto the varsity basketball team.

(FWIW tennis and hockey are the only real sports you listed, and hockey is plenty accessible the farther north you go.)[/quote]

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