Anonymous
Post 04/26/2025 16:01     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
How hard is it to play boys tennis or golf at Tj. My kid was just accepted - he enjoys those sports, but is very average.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 11:08     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Even if your child is a very experienced athlete, it’s likely that they will play at the Varsity level and play games that matter much earlier than they would at their base school.

One thing that also essentially
doesn’t exist at all at TJ is the politics of playing time. If your kid is pretty good, they’re not going to have to do X Y and Z extra thing in order to please the coach, or have to be on or have been on whatever travel team.


The bolded really varies by base school. In many sports there's a disparity across FCPS (and then comparing FCPS to the other districts that TJ draws from).


I should amend my comment that it pretty much applies to team sports rather than individual sports. It’s very hard to crack the rotation in, say, tennis or swim at TJ, but if you have experience in lacrosse, field hockey, basketball, baseball/softball, or certainly football, you’ll probably have a very successful career at TJ.


This is true, and if we're being honest, the district that TJ plays in is pretty weak in most team sports so you'll probably experience a fair amount of winning, too.
Anonymous
Post 04/24/2025 10:38     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
My kid lettered in 3 sports at TJ and was recruited (and committed) to a T10 in their main sport. They've since graduated from college and have said that TJ more than prepared them for attending and playing in college. This is mainly bc of the time management that they needed to internalize starting freshman year at TJ.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 12:24     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Even if your child is a very experienced athlete, it’s likely that they will play at the Varsity level and play games that matter much earlier than they would at their base school.

One thing that also essentially
doesn’t exist at all at TJ is the politics of playing time. If your kid is pretty good, they’re not going to have to do X Y and Z extra thing in order to please the coach, or have to be on or have been on whatever travel team.


The bolded really varies by base school. In many sports there's a disparity across FCPS (and then comparing FCPS to the other districts that TJ draws from).


I should amend my comment that it pretty much applies to team sports rather than individual sports. It’s very hard to crack the rotation in, say, tennis or swim at TJ, but if you have experience in lacrosse, field hockey, basketball, baseball/softball, or certainly football, you’ll probably have a very successful career at TJ.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 11:10     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Anonymous wrote:Even if your child is a very experienced athlete, it’s likely that they will play at the Varsity level and play games that matter much earlier than they would at their base school.

One thing that also essentially
doesn’t exist at all at TJ is the politics of playing time. If your kid is pretty good, they’re not going to have to do X Y and Z extra thing in order to please the coach, or have to be on or have been on whatever travel team.


The bolded really varies by base school. In many sports there's a disparity across FCPS (and then comparing FCPS to the other districts that TJ draws from).
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 11:09     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Even if your child is a very experienced athlete, it’s likely that they will play at the Varsity level and play games that matter much earlier than they would at their base school.

One thing that also essentially
doesn’t exist at all at TJ is the politics of playing time. If your kid is pretty good, they’re not going to have to do X Y and Z extra thing in order to please the coach, or have to be on or have been on whatever travel team.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2025 07:21     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from TJ and I volunteered with the athletic boosters. They actually had a spreadsheet listing college athletic recruits out of TJ. The list started in the early 2000s and my kid graduated a couple of years ago. Schools included: Air Force,Army,Berkeley, Bowdoin,Brown,
Caltech,Carnegie Mellon,Case Western,Centre College
Chicago,Columbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Davidson, Delaware, Drexel,Duke, Emory,George Washington
Georgetown,Georgia Tech,Harvard,Harvey Mudd.
Johns Hopkins,Kentucky,Lehigh,McGill,MIT,
Navy,Northwestern,Oberlin,Penn,Penn State,Princeton
Purdue,Radcliffe,Stanford,Stevens Institute of Technology,Swarthmore,Tufts,U Miami,US Coast Guard Academy,UVA,Virginia Tech,Wabash,Washington U,
Wellesley,Western Washington University,
William & Mary and Yale.

So some kids are evidently capable of doing both high level academics and high level athletics I guess.


Thanks! Appreciate the extra step.

Your conclusion agrees with our experience thus far; my child is maintaining excellent grades while also doing well on a demanding sport at TJ.

Anonymous
Post 05/20/2024 15:39     Subject: TJ sports recruiting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard recruited athletes are the ones causing all the math remediation?

Recruited is only 5 or 6, if any. But remedial is over a hundred