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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, your listing of those scores supports my position.  SSAS is the only top tier school, the rest are not on the same plane.

Furthermore, you are stretching.  Potomac has a very good baseball team this year.  I know the head baseball coach (he also coaches the 8th grade basketball team at the Woods Academy where he had one of the most talented such teams ever assembled in the D.C. area this year)  This year is an anomoly in the overall athletic program results.  They do on occasion field a good team in a single sport that could compete with these other schools.  Baseball is one exception.  You will never, and I mean never, see that happen in football, lacrosse, or basketball.

Seriously, Potomac is a great school.  I'm glad for you that you are proud of your school's program.  But don't try to argue that they are on the same field athletically as the big boys.  There is no credibility to this.
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I think I've conceded, many times in this thread, that the single sex schools do consistently field better teams in the major teams sports.  Given that they have twice the boys to choose from for a sport like football, that's not at all surprising or particularly insightful.

Your previous quotes in this thread were that "you will not find Potomac (and other MAC schools) competitive with the IAC, WAC, and other conferences" and that "Potomac very rarely plays the St. Albans, Landons, GPs in the major boys sports (football, basketball, lacrosse, baseball, wrestling, etc.)".   A simple data review of past schedules and records now shows these assertions to be false.   So, now your position seems to be that yes they do play and swap wins with various IAC schools, but "this year is an anomoly" and "Baseball is one exception".   Who is the one who seems to be stretching?

Look, I've simply been responding to your meanspirited comments that Potomac and Sidwell don't pursue athletic excellence.  I've not been putting down your school (which at this point I assume is St Albans).  Your "big boys" comment above is another example of rather obnoxious and very nonconstructive language.   Absent switching to a single sex school, I'm not sure what else a top coed program like Potomac or Sidwell should be doing (they can certainly always improve, as can any school).

So, bottom line is I'm extremely comfortable in my family's decision to pursue a top coed private education for our kids, even if means not playing in the same conference as your single sex school and maybe not having quite as big a sports crazed culture (just like I'm perfectly happy for my son to be playing for a top Ivy League school rather than for Michigan).   To each her own.

I hope you enjoy your experience at StA (or wherever) and that your son finds success.   I'll just have to hope that when we do play you, we'll be able to pull off one of those miracle "anomolies" or "exceptions" that seem to be happening more often.  Cheers.

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