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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For any kind of athletic recruiting, if the schools continue to recruit for athletics, it is impossible to get to the level of being recruitable without parents curating. A 10th grader can't decide in 10th grade that they are going to join club swimming (when they are old enough to drive themselves if their parents were never willing to) and then get a spot on a college team three years later. [/quote]

Kids can and do decide to take up sports in high school all the time and some of them end up recruited at levels far beyond the Ivy League.[/quote]

Unless you mean football, this does not happen ever. [/quote]

Football is close to it unless you were just crazy gisted and never knew it.  [b]You could get into the pool for the first time in high school and find you set records.  It does happen.  Just not a lot.[/b][/quote]

Yeah and I can marry my cousin. lol.

You are much much more likely to get recuited to swim or play soccer at a NESCAC, Ivy or any other school if your parents paid for club sports your whole life (and you grew up in a rich suburb) Some high schools don't even have lacrosse or field hockey teams. How do you get recruited if your high school and town dont have teams?

But sure you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

My point was agreeing with your point.  It happens but not a lot.  Football different.  Girl's field hockey different.  Track could be different but probably not.[/quote]

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