There are a lot of rec sports in our area that go all the way through high school and beyond. Soccer has tons of options and basketball too although in my immediate area I think basketball is usually only in the winter for HS rec. It could be different elsewhere in the DMV. Lots of rec level casual HS swimmers in summer swim. There are club track teams that will take anyone who will put in effort. You'll find a mix of elite runners and kids who walk part of the warm ups and it's great.

Crew teams are also often no cut and sometimes they are associated with a HS and sometimes not.

I don't know why you think sports go away or get very competitive at some point.

To answer your question it's no, you don't need to send your kids to private so that they can continue sports at older ages.

Anonymous wrote:Ask if it's no-cut vs. the nonathletic kids get put into a General Sports class.

Sports participation are typically applied to fulfilling PE requirements and some schools may also offer PE courses that can fulfill that requirement, like strength and conditioning, yoga and dance.

Anonymous wrote:Because of the mandatory sport requirement / no curd policies.

Neither DS nor DD are stellar at sports. And my impression is that rec sports go away after that. It’s all travel, club, or HS teams which are competitive due to school size.

It’s going to be school dependent and then individual sport dependent within each school.

Some schools can have sports teams that are nationally ranked in several sports and then lack participation and are bottom dwellers in others. For example, GDS volleyball is very competitive and probably cuts as a result but their girls lacrosse team is not very good and probably doesn’t cut anyone.

And as others has posted, there is always at least one sport per season that is no cut.

Ask if it's no-cut vs. the nonathletic kids get put into a General Sports class.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because of the mandatory sport requirement / no curd policies.

Neither DS nor DD are stellar at sports. And my impression is that rec sports go away after that. It’s all travel, club, or HS teams which are competitive due to school size.

Why are you so dismissive of their abilities? They are young. A lot of athletes mature into their skills late.

My rec-level, lowest travel team benchwarmer at 8 is playing college next year. Passion and work ethic outweigh early skill.

Some of us know. When you are spending thousands a month for a therapist to teach your child how to hold his head up, sit, crawl, walk, run, skip, roll a ball .... you know.

Kids change a lot in puberty. Yes, some always have low tone, but speaking as someone at the opposite end, you don’t always know who is going to be the college athlete. My kid had a friend who was a low tone kid in kindergarten with a lot of therapist visits who is now a D3 cross country runner.

I’m just saying kids are not always predictable, and a kid with passion and work ethic can do very well athletically.

St Anselms is a pretty open sports team environment, but for boys only.