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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting into a varsity team in a good high school is extremely competitive. For example for a junior to make it to varsity volleyball, they is often just one spot and there are 20 kids competing for it. I don’t know about other areas but McLean and Langley have extremely competitive teams and you really need to be excellent at your sport if you want to make it on the varsity team. [/quote]

How do you define a good school?  For some reason Catholic schools always come out on top. Otherwise the top schools for sports seem like random towns.  [/quote]

I’m not the pp but I also reside in McLean. I don’t know how our sports compare to other schools. What I do know is that a lot of kids in McLean play baseball and soccer and 100 kids may try out for ~15 spots.

I just posted that my kid is trying out for tennis and there is only one team of 16. There is no freshmen or JV team. 15 players are supposedly returning. There are other schools that may not be able to fill their tennis and golf teams.[/quote]

I promise I'm not trying to minimize how challenging it is to make the team.  But I will highlight that they will (should) take the best 16.  And that may mean that some of those returning 15 do not make the team.

I've seen it happen when my freshman DD made the varsity softball team and a returning varsity player did not[/quote]

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