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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it has been mentioned that if your son is an athlete they have a better chance of getting in. Gprep isnt part of the WCAC so i dont know how competitive they are sports wise.

Is your application flagged as athlete by the coaches or just in general. I am trying to figure out how do they know who is a novice versus someone who truly has athletic talent. [/quote]

Usually the very best athletes in the DMV find their way to the WCAC. Although lots also stay in the public school in PG and in NoVa.

But IAC teams are not that far below the WCAC. If the WCAC is the major leagues, the IAC is Triple A. And in some sports, the IAC is better. (Not football or basketball)

Bullis, Prep, Landon take sports very seriously. It’s a priority for them.[/quote]

What are the sports that Prep tend to do the heavy recruitment for? How do kids even make the team if heavy recruitment takes place ?[/quote]

First would be football.

Lacrosse and basketball probably follow in that order.

But, football and lacrosse have large rosters. And there aren’t that many kids that are admitted with special “help” from The coaching staffs in the Admissions process. The majority of theses teams are made up of boys, who go through the regular process.

But lots of these regular boys select Prep because they are interested in sports and want to play at the level of the top teams in the IAC.

In recent years Prep has dominated the IAC Founders Cup race which is awarded to the school with the overall, across all sports, performance.[/quote]

Thought Georgetown Prep was a lacrosse school?[/quote]

Lacrosse is still important. But it isn't what it was just a few years ago.

Thoughout its history, Prep has been a football school. It has been expelled from the IAC twice for dominating the conference.

For a while Lacrosse was the dominant sport. Prep was nationally-ranked, a local powerhouse and it was drawing a large number of full-day applicants to the school. Crowds at games, especially vs. Landon, eclipsed even big football game crowds. This was in the realm of the controversial coach, Kevin Giblin, who built the program pretty much from scratch.

Things have changed. Giblin is gone. The Lacrosse program doesn't have the sway it once had in Admissions. The IAC is no longer dominated by Landon and Prep. Games between the two bitter rivals that once drew huge crowds no longer do. Other IAC schools have caught up to the two powers. Gonzaga has greatly improved it's program to parity with Prep and Landon. Even St Johns has improved it's program.

Football has regained it's former importance, in part due to the fact that the AD is also the football coach and that there are so many alums who played football and not Lacrosse. Things were fine when the Lacrosse players also played football. But when significant numbers decided to play Lacrosse only, that wasn't going to fly.[/quote]

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