In case people didn’t see this update in bulletin. Pretty cool alternative.

**NEW: Winter Intramural Basketball

We will hold a Saturday intramural basketball league beginning Saturday, December 4th, from 9 am to noon. Boys and girls are welcome to participate; some of the skill-developing drills, activities, and conditioning will be coed. All participating students must be cleared to participate in athletics. Sign up here to participate in the Saturday basketball league.

Deal may actually have a chance this year in bball given the vaccine mandate. I’m interested to see how it plays out.

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Anonymous wrote:If 100 kids tryout for 2 boys teams, and 40 girls try out for 1 girls team, isn't it fair to have two boys teams and one girls team?

maybe only 40 girls tried out b/c they were told their was only going to be 1 team? Title ix says not OK

So is title 9 about girls’ feelings or facts? I think they can explain the plans. Clearly, not as many girls want to play so of course it makes sense to have fewer teams.

For the 10th time, there will be one boy team and one girl team. This is a result of DC sports scene via DCIAA, not Deal. Things are even worse for baseball. There is zero competitive teams in DC for baseball. It will be 100 boys try out and the only school that will field close to a competitive team will be Hardy. Most games will be canceled or forfeited.

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Anonymous wrote:Deal has capacity for what 1400-1500 students. No matter how you draw the lines, it’s always going to be a huge school and be very hard to make cut sports teams. There are plenty of non cut options for students or they can play recreationally. No matter what, Deal bball for boys is not guaranteed to be a top bball team. The bulk of City bball talent is just not upper NW.

Why do you even say that? There are probably plenty of good bball players who go to deal and newsflash: they might come from other parts of the city, too because of the lottery.

Because I know the DC middle school bball scene very well. Deal has 1-2 AAU type players (and you’re right, one is OOB) and Jefferson, for example, has 5-6.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If 100 kids tryout for 2 boys teams, and 40 girls try out for 1 girls team, isn't it fair to have two boys teams and one girls team?

maybe only 40 girls tried out b/c they were told their was only going to be 1 team? Title ix says not OK

So is title 9 about girls’ feelings or facts? I think they can explain the plans. Clearly, not as many girls want to play so of course it makes sense to have fewer teams.

I don’t know about Deal, but this was clearly the case at Wilson. Three boys teams, 100 kids at both varsity and JV tryouts, but they had trouble getting enough girls to field a team (according to DC).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If 100 kids tryout for 2 boys teams, and 40 girls try out for 1 girls team, isn't it fair to have two boys teams and one girls team?

maybe only 40 girls tried out b/c they were told their was only going to be 1 team? Title ix says not OK

So is title 9 about girls’ feelings or facts? I think they can explain the plans. Clearly, not as many girls want to play so of course it makes sense to have fewer teams.

Anonymous wrote:Deal has capacity for what 1400-1500 students. No matter how you draw the lines, it’s always going to be a huge school and be very hard to make cut sports teams. There are plenty of non cut options for students or they can play recreationally. No matter what, Deal bball for boys is not guaranteed to be a top bball team. The bulk of City bball talent is just not upper NW.

Why do you even say that? There are probably plenty of good bball players who go to deal and newsflash: they might come from other parts of the city, too because of the lottery.

Geez, there should be a team for each grade. Basketball teams only carry about 10 on a roster. Deal should have a chance to do really well with the number of students it has to pull from. Middle school hoops is the best!

Deal has capacity for what 1400-1500 students. No matter how you draw the lines, it’s always going to be a huge school and be very hard to make cut sports teams. There are plenty of non cut options for students or they can play recreationally. No matter what, Deal bball for boys is not guaranteed to be a top bball team. The bulk of City bball talent is just not upper NW.

No we don’t need need more schools. We need better boundaries. There are new schools in DC at only 50% capacity like brookland middle! DCPS needs to create real academic magnet schools.