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Anonymous wrote:GDA - 9 D1, 0 D2, 4 D3

What on earth is GDA?

Georgetown Day Academy?

PP again. The Maret committed D1s that I know of above are Yale, Northwestern, Colgate, and USC (Southern Cal) in case anyone wanted to add ones I missed.

I’m hoping the new AD does a better job showcasing that Maret is not a Burke type school when it comes to athletics. Maybe showcase signing days?

No knock to Burke but they place rather well for the size they are.

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Anonymous wrote:There those athletes who are recruited and commit to D1, then those who go through the process to commit to D3. Among the local privates (not the WCAC schools), Bullis probably has the most D1 athletes, then Landon and Prep and I'm sure the number varies from year to year from anything like 3-4 to 10 D1 and then a handful of D3. While schools like Sidwell, St. Albans, NCS, Potomac, and Holton, may have 5 or 6 D3 and 1 to 4 D1. GDS, Maret, Field, Burke, very few college athletes.

Maret is more like the second category you describe, not in same category as Burke LOL. They def send anywhere from 8-12 to college each year out of classes around 80.

Although I suspect this may be moot, I thought OP was talking about recruited 9th graders.

+1 Maret consistently has 10+ kids each year who continue their sport in college. This year I think it's about 15 kids in a class of 85. That's close to 20% of the grade. A good number of those (maybe about 1/3) are D1.

This just simply isn't true. Maybe they have 1 or 2 D1, every now and then, not more than that. D3, sure. All you need for that is to be decent at the sport and for top academic LACS, to have really good grades.

To get tipped by a coach at Williams, Amherst, or Middlebury you need to be an impressive athlete. Swarthmore and Haverford have a lot of attrition in upper years (or at least that was the case when I was looking at schools a billion years ago) and a lot of kids study abroad so maybe a bit easier to get tipped as an athlete. Pomona also has strong athletics for D3.

+1. PP is also just wrong.

Just this year there are 4 D1 commits that I know of.

1 Football (3 more recruited and offered D1 but opted D2 or D3 for higher academics)
1 Girls bball
1 Girls soccer
1 Volleyball


This is JUST D1.

There are 9-10 more D2/3.

I feel like I’m missing at least one. Full disclosure, I have a kid on one of the teams.

Junior class
2 girls soccer already committed to GTown

Sophomore class
Footballer 5 D1 offers already
Girl BBall 3 D1 offers

Freshman class
Boys Bball 1 D1 offer

No, no, no. California, Texas, and the New York metro area are generally the strongest areas for sports.

and Florida

For girls soccer, CA and TX are consistently very strong. However, the DMV has produced some very strong teams, including several from McLean ECNL and what used to be FCV.

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.


Really? The DMV very best teams nationally? Not even close. The DMV teams/clubs are not considered strong regionally let alone nationally.

Just off the top of my head . . .

McLean ENCL U18 (birth year 2000) - ECNL National Champion in 2018
McLean ECNL U18 (birth year 2001) - ECNL National Runner-Up

McLean also had two national championship teams about 5 years before that (coached by Clyde Watson).

These are all girls' teams.

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Wash DC isn’t some place with AAAAA big time sports public schools like long beach poly PHS or westlake PHS or highland park PHS. Or privates like Harvard westlake sports programs. They just don’t have total students, athletic budget or top coaching staff to supplant a travel team program’s expertise.

SJC comes closest. Sidwell started recruiting basketball team members around the coaches’ kids. But schools and parents here are academic focused.

WCAC is hands down the strongest high school athletic league in the country.

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

Really? The DMV very best teams nationally? Not even close. The DMV teams/clubs are not considered strong regionally let alone nationally.

No, no, no. California, Texas, and the New York metro area are generally the strongest areas for sports.

and Florida

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

Really? The DMV very best teams nationally? Not even close. The DMV teams/clubs are not considered strong regionally let alone nationally.

No, no, no. California, Texas, and the New York metro area are generally the strongest areas for sports.

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Anonymous wrote:There those athletes who are recruited and commit to D1, then those who go through the process to commit to D3. Among the local privates (not the WCAC schools), Bullis probably has the most D1 athletes, then Landon and Prep and I'm sure the number varies from year to year from anything like 3-4 to 10 D1 and then a handful of D3. While schools like Sidwell, St. Albans, NCS, Potomac, and Holton, may have 5 or 6 D3 and 1 to 4 D1. GDS, Maret, Field, Burke, very few college athletes.

Maret is more like the second category you describe, not in same category as Burke LOL. They def send anywhere from 8-12 to college each year out of classes around 80.

Although I suspect this may be moot, I thought OP was talking about recruited 9th graders.

+1 Maret consistently has 10+ kids each year who continue their sport in college. This year I think it's about 15 kids in a class of 85. That's close to 20% of the grade. A good number of those (maybe about 1/3) are D1.

This just simply isn't true. Maybe they have 1 or 2 D1, every now and then, not more than that. D3, sure. All you need for that is to be decent at the sport and for top academic LACS, to have really good grades.

To get tipped by a coach at Williams, Amherst, or Middlebury you need to be an impressive athlete. Swarthmore and Haverford have a lot of attrition in upper years (or at least that was the case when I was looking at schools a billion years ago) and a lot of kids study abroad so maybe a bit easier to get tipped as an athlete. Pomona also has strong athletics for D3.

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

Really? The DMV very best teams nationally? Not even close. The DMV teams/clubs are not considered strong regionally let alone nationally.

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

However, they were absolutely not recruited from their HS.

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

With boys the top players aren't allowed to play for their HS team, MLSnext prevents it. But, boys soccer isn't something most schools are recruiting for given the sheer number of boys that play high level Club soccer in the area. They don't need to recruit--the incoming classes have enough kids that just get in academically. There were over 120 boys that came out for soccer tryouts last year, and maybe 1 was actually recruited.

I meant to say that only 2 of the 8 boys going to play college soccer next year played for the high school team. And 1 did not play all 4 years.

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Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

With boys the top players aren't allowed to play for their HS team, MLSnext prevents it. But, boys soccer isn't something most schools are recruiting for given the sheer number of boys that play high level Club soccer in the area. They don't need to recruit--the incoming classes have enough kids that just get in academically. There were over 120 boys that came out for soccer tryouts last year, and maybe 1 was actually recruited.

Remember though, most ECNL girls who are actually D1 prospect don't play on their high school team, or at least only play senior year

Not true. I am very familiar with ECNL soccer and some of the very best teams nationally have been from the DMV over the last 10 years, and almost every player has also played on their high school team.

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Anonymous wrote:GDA - 9 D1, 0 D2, 4 D3

What on earth is GDA?

Probably GDS. Which is a lot more D1 athletes than I would have expected. Good for them!