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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sports are a huge commitment. 
My son has practices basically every single day (5 days + a weekend in Fall and most days in Spring between club and HS workouts). It would be insane not to account for this type of commitment to shed light on what an accomplishment his 4.0 is given he has compromised free time.

Please. [/quote]

Totally agree, my student also has a number of academic and extracurricular accomplishments that are even more impressive considering he is a three sport athlete is a demanding high school athletic conference.[/quote]

I am not disagreeing with you, but something doesn't add up.

If you are in a demanding DMV athletic conference...let's take WCAC...and you are a varsity, 3 sport athlete (nearly impossible, but go with me)...well, you are getting recruited for something.  I guess if you only participate in no-cut sports like XCountry, Indoor Track and Track...well maybe.

There are very few demanding HS athletic conferences in the entire US...so maybe that is the disconnect.[/quote]

It’s Baltimore’s private school MIAA A conference, which has teams ranked in the top ten nationally for soccer, football, squash, and lacrosse, among others.  And plenty of kids play on varsity teams in those sports who are not recruited so not sure where you are going with that.[/quote]

Which three sports (BTW…squash really can’t be included here)?  I don’t know a single Spaulding baseball varsity starter that plays three sports…almost none play two.  Nearly all the staters are committed.

I know the Gilman football QB played another sport and is in fact a D1 commit.

There is no varsity starter in three sports  that isn’t a commit for one of them. Again…a starter not someone who just makes the team.

BTW…the league doesn’t have a top ranked football team.  Good Counsel is the only team in the DMV ranked in the top 30.  Soccer doesn’t matter at all because literally all top HS aged athletes play for academy teams and can’t play for their HS teams.[/quote]

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