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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Recruited athletes”?  Is that really a thing — it’s a neighborhood highschool.[/quote]

Not sure if this is a thing here but I played basketball and softball in California in the 1990's. It was well known that there were certain schools that were regularly scouted by Division I colleges to recruit athletes. Families of girls who were athletically gifted regularly talked to the High School coaches and sent tapes of their Middle School kid to see if they had a good shot of making the varsity squad. If the Coach said yes, families moved into that boundary so that the kids could attend.

So yes, there is recruiting of high school players. I knew that my team was never going to win the conference in basketball because there were two teams that had girls who were, on average, 6 feet tall on their basketball squad. My 5'8" self could not match up with their centers. Either those teams had something in their water that led to lots of tall girls or people were moving into those areas to play basketball. And yes, almost all of those girls went to play Women's Basketball at Division I schools in College.

It is no different than the star athletes going to College Prep High Schools or private schools to play sports. It is just less obvious. [/quote]

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