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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would argue that the issue is not so much location, demographics or IB as it is a complete disinterest from the Athletic dept for anything that isn’t one of 2-3 sports. There’s a reason the athletic office has bled staff this year…[/quote]

I don't have a student at Lewis so I can't comment on the activities office or the coaches at Lewis.  However, I have a student at Mount Vernon, which has very similar demographics to Lewis.

I have seen first hand what a coach can do to build a team.  A coach that is out recruiting students and encouraging current team members to recruit their friends is able to field a team.  I have on that plays golf at MV - he had never played a round of golf before his freshman year of high school.  DS decided to play because one of his best friends was playing and encouraged my DS to join him.  DS received free golf lessons and in four years became a pretty good golfer.

There is most likely only one high school sport where a student who has never done anything with that sport can not "walk" on: Swimming.  You have to know how to do a basic front crawl in order to join the swim team.  Otherwise, any student would be able to show up and "play" a sport.

Will the team with a bunch of first year players be any good?  No.  My DS also plays lacrosse.  He's played for several years so he knows what he's doing but over half the team had never played the sport before they stepped foot at MVHS.  They borrow sticks that were donated to the program.  In two years, they've only won one game.  But they were able to field a JV and Varsity team because the coach was out recruiting players.  MV's lacrosse team looks like the demographics of the high school.

So again, I don't know what's going on at Lewis and softball.  But if the coach and students were out recruiting, they should be able to field at least one softball team.[/quote]

It's not just softball but also baseball this year and maybe field hockey as well this coming fall.  It sounds like you've described - the athletic director is throwing in the towel and not getting the coaches to make the extra effort.  But perhaps it makes the soccer teams stronger. [/quote]

There is no reason for Lewis not to have a baseball team as the little leagues and middle school/teen Babe Ruth type leagues in that area are all very strong and robust with Lewis bound kids involved in all of them.

Maybe the baseball kids are all chosing travel.

Honestly, if Lewis played in the correct division for a school its size, they would probably get more sports participation.  There is no reason to have them in the class they are placed in.

We had schools that size and much smaller where I grew up, and they all fielded full teams because they were competing against similarly sized schools where the competition was more even.[/quote]

There are no smaller division 5 schools left in northern Va. And without local rivalries and the long distance travel needed to play smaller schools, ticket sales would go down, and students who can’t commit the time for all that travel would give up on sports. [/quote]

What about the larger parochial high schools? Or TJ?[/quote]

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