Has anyone had experience with the camps other than football? Not interested in the school but can see paying for an exceptional camp. Based on PP saying son is returning for football camp again, I assume it was a good program.

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Anonymous wrote:For soccer, there are two tracks. There is the UMNT track, which is paid for by US Soccer and represents the absolute best players in the country. Then there is the Mom and Dad paid for me to be here track. The difference is stark.

What about for the other sports such as basketball, football and lacrosse? Are there also two tracks for those? I can't see McAloon going there if it is not a serious basketball program. He seemed well liked and respected as a basketball coach in the DMV.

For lacrosse, Georgetwon prep beat them. You probably can find as good or better lacrosse here

I think IMG hurts itself by taking on sports they cannot be the absolute best at, or very close to it. I've seen several DMV kids go there for soccer who were nowhere near the best kids on their team, let alone the whole area. I'm guess that their parents has the $ to send them. They were all back within a year or two, as are most of the kids that go to Europe for soccer from the area.

We do summer football camp. Excellent and pricey. Rising 6th grader.

Anonymous wrote:Do you need to spend $70K to get recruited by a D1 school?

They're spending it for the athletic training, not for the academics. The academics are just there to make it possible for the athletes to train full-time. While the cost is nuts, it's not unusually high compared to what elite athletes in other sports spend on training (which is also nuts!) It's not unlike ski academies.

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Anonymous wrote:For soccer, there are two tracks. There is the UMNT track, which is paid for by US Soccer and represents the absolute best players in the country. Then there is the Mom and Dad paid for me to be here track. The difference is stark.

What about for the other sports such as basketball, football and lacrosse? Are there also two tracks for those? I can't see McAloon going there if it is not a serious basketball program. He seemed well liked and respected as a basketball coach in the DMV.

I know they are trying to go all in with their basketball program. Their football program is one of the best in the country. As is their baseball program.

Lacrosse is not as big a sport in the South as it is here so PP is right - there are a lot better lacrosse programs locally.

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Anonymous wrote:For soccer, there are two tracks. There is the UMNT track, which is paid for by US Soccer and represents the absolute best players in the country. Then there is the Mom and Dad paid for me to be here track. The difference is stark.

What about for the other sports such as basketball, football and lacrosse? Are there also two tracks for those? I can't see McAloon going there if it is not a serious basketball program. He seemed well liked and respected as a basketball coach in the DMV.

For lacrosse, Georgetwon prep beat them. You probably can find as good or better lacrosse here

Anonymous wrote:For soccer, there are two tracks. There is the UMNT track, which is paid for by US Soccer and represents the absolute best players in the country. Then there is the Mom and Dad paid for me to be here track. The difference is stark.

What about for the other sports such as basketball, football and lacrosse? Are there also two tracks for those? I can't see McAloon going there if it is not a serious basketball program. He seemed well liked and respected as a basketball coach in the DMV.

Anonymous wrote:Isn't this where Agassi, Courier, Carling Bassett, and the gang went back in the day?

Back then it was Bolleteries' Tennis Academy

For soccer, there are two tracks. There is the UMNT track, which is paid for by US Soccer and represents the absolute best players in the country. Then there is the Mom and Dad paid for me to be here track. The difference is stark.

It's a place in Florida that's trying to be a destination for tournaments and to be a boarding school. Die of the facilities are nice, some are meh. We were there for a soccer tournament and the soccer facilities are average, but there is a big football stadium. It's in a nowhere part of Florida near the beach. I don't know if the school is any good - what they are selling you is training to make your kid a pro athlete.

So, it looks like Sean McAloon, the SJC boys basketball coach, will be head coach at IMG Academy.

http://usatodayhss.com/2017/st-johns-college-coach-sean-mcaloon-will-become-new-head-coach-at-img-academy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2017/06/06/st-johns-basketball-coach-sean-mcaloon-is-leaving-will-be-replaced-by-st-marys-ryken-coach-pat-behan/?utm_term=.3235dff1cff0

Yep - it used to be Nick Boilletteri's Academy but IMG took over.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, when it was a tennis academy but apparently it has expanded into other sports.

We did the summer football camp last year, doing again this year

Yes, when it was a tennis academy but apparently it has expanded into other sports.

Isn't this where Agassi, Courier, Carling Bassett, and the gang went back in the day?