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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do sports factor into this if we have a competitive, travel/advanced athlete applying to these schools from an Arlington diocese school? I assume we the parents contact the coaches a year(?) in advance (if athletes not already involved in recruiting events) to determine interest and then work with school to determine academic fit.

To complicate matters, our middle school son doesn't want to apply to a Catholic High School that won't consider him to tryout. [/quote]

Not much unless they are an absolute superstar.

They [b]get kids from DC, MD and VA and tend to attract kids from top teams all over the DMV[/b]…so much so your kid may not even make the team.  I see this happen to so many kids.

The “cut sports” are extremely competitive; basketball, soccer, baseball, etc.  Lots of former students in NFL, NBA from my kids’ HS.

And, no YOU don’t contact the Coach.  Lol they don’t want parent involvement.  This isn’t travel.  Lol[/quote]

This is PP. Our son plays on a "top team" in MD but probably a year away from HS Coach attention. But thanks to PPs for the advice. I guess we should focus more attention on camps and ask other team parents about recruiting.
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AT our school you have kids from all the ECNL teams (VA and MD), MLSNext players are not allowed to play high school, but the team is pretty much filled with kids on top teams in the local area and they do not even need to recruit for them, these are kids that are applying and plan to attend anyway.  Soccer is a sport that they don't recruit for along the biggies Football and Basketball.[/quote]

That’s the important point.

Because most schools don’t really care about soccer that much, being a soccer player isn’t much of an admissions “hook” or advantage.

It’s not close to football, basketball or lacrosse in terms of its value. There aren’t big crowds at games, broad alumni interest and support and the press coverage that the big sports attract.

So Athletic Directors aren’t going to expend many or any of their precious admissions “chits” on them.[/quote]

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