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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This depends on your goal.

If you seriously think your child could play D1 baseball for the likes of UVA or Alabama, then he is going to spend a lot time traveling to showcases in FL, GA, NC, NJ, etc.,  trying to attract the attention of college coaches.  Of course, if your child is really going to play for UVA or Alabama, you would probably already know this by the end of sophomore year.  Look at the commits for classes of 2023 and 2024 at Virginia Stars or Bethesda Big Train.  Your son's time commitment after getting the college offer is to keep up his skills and avoid blowing out his arm.

However, if your goal is an Ivy/high academic DIII like Swarthmore, then there is less of a time commitment.  Programs like Bradley Baseball Academy that focus on this market are not traveling across the country, and there are fewer showcases like Head First that focus on this market.  DIII doesn't give scholarships (but they do give tuition discounts), [b]but if you look at the college section of this forum you will see the real value of getting a DIII baseball offer from the likes of Johns Hopkins or Williams: you don't have to suffer through the trauma of the application process in senior year![/b]

That said, virtually all of the baseball boys we have met over the years have excellent time management skills and have been able to balance AP and honors classes with their baseball commitments.  It helps that baseball is a more cerebral sport than the reactive sports of soccer, basketball, etc.  Of course AP science courses are more difficult time-wise to reconcile with baseball, but this true of all sports.  [/quote]

Re the bolded - what in the world are you talking about?  [/quote]

I’m not pp, but I assume what they’re referring to is that being a recruited athlete gives you earlier notification and a better chance of admission. If your goal is to attend a top tier college, being recruited to play a sport there makes the admissions cycle much less stressful. [/quote]

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