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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell loses to the mighty frogs of Maret 35-19.[/quote]

Sidwell GIRLS SOCCER won the league title (ISL AA) for the second year in a row.  Sidwell GIRLS TENNIS won the ISL A Championship this fall.  Sidwell BOYS SOCCER playing for the league title.  Sidwell BOYS BASKETBALL defending league champion, with a second player in two years signing a Division I Letter of Intent.  Sidwell BOYS WRESTLING going for someting like their 10th straight league title this winter.  Sidwell BOYS BASEBALL won the city championship in 2011.

We're a Cathedral schools family.  Over the past couple years, I've personally seen Sidwell beat NCS in girls soccer (twice, both times for the league title) and girls basketball; and seen Sidwell beat St. Albans in boys' soccer, boys' basketball, boys' baseball (the year they won the City title), and boys' wrestling.  In fact, I've seen Sidwell beat enough Cathedral Close teams that perhaps I'm a bad luck charm and my kids and their friends would do better if I stay home!  I've also seen STA and NCS beat Sidwell in things like cross country, boys baseball (last year), and boys and girls lacrosse.

I don't know what your beef is with Sidwell football, except that it comes across as obsessive.  But as a Wisconsin Avenue neighbor of Sidwell, I can say that your continued assertion that Sidwell is terrible athletically across the board is inaccurate.  Your insistence on defining athletics to exclude All GIRLS' SPORTS comes across as misogynistic, and defining boys' sports as synonymous with football irrational and odd.  Sidwell is first and foremost an academically oriented school (as are the Cathedral Schools -- STA is no Dematha), but they field some good teams as well, offer tons of participation opportunities, and friends with kids there have spoken positively of their kids' athletic experience.

My apologies for keeping this thread going but I wanted to offer a different viewpoint from the obsessed poster.

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