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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would note, based on recollection from the long thread from last year that Sidwell baseball won the City tournament (against St. Albans and Maret as well as Wilson), won the DC Wrestling tournament (against the other DC schools), won their basketball league, soccer league, girls soccer was nationally ranked, many D1 athletes in recent years including this year's senior class.

I am not sure what the poster is inferring, but that is a lot of success for the past few months.

In looking at the website, an alum won multiple grammies a few weeks ago, and there are other platitudes.  This is a bizarre suggestion.  At the same time, no one is suggesting the school is an athletic powerhouse like DeMatha or Prep.

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I have kids at the Cathedral schools, and perhaps I am human Kryptonite to STA/NCS sports, because every game I've gone to recently where STA/NCS played Sidwell, Sidwell won.  Last year -- Sidwell beat STA en route to winning the city baseball championship.  This fall -- saw Sidwell boys' soccer beat STA and Sidwell Girls' soccer beat NCS to win the league title (the star Sidwell girls' player is going to Duke on a soccer scholarship, as I recall).  This winter, saw Sidwell boys' basketball beat St. Albans and then saw that they beat Georgetown Prep too.  Although I wasn't at the DC wrestling tournament (so don't blame me, Bulldogs!) I also read that Sidwell won the DC wrestling title.

So, while I would never say that Sidwell sports are better than St. Albans or NCS from top to bottom (despite my bad luck record for STA/NCS vs. Sidwell matches), it just seems odd that somebody is always saying that Sidwell has no athletic program whatsoever.  Within their constraints (co-ed school, not that large) they have some excellent teams, some average teams, and some weaker teams.

I have posted before on the big anti-Sidwell sports thread (mainly directed at Sidwell's football team), and there seems to be one repeat poster who always says stuff like "Sidwell parents are circling the wagons" etc.  I'm just an observer from down Wisconsin Avenue but somebody's got an axe to grind -- if anyone is truly interested in Sidwell and concerned about the athletics piece I'd advise them to check out the specific sport and not buy into the negative hype on DCUM.

And on the academic side of things the school is great, which one would think is the reason people are applying in the first place![/quote]

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