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I am finding myself doing what I said I would never do, that is exploring what it would take for my kid to play sports in college. I’m not talking D1 or anything, but after sending my oldest to college, I like the idea of a coach monitoring her attendance in class and her grades. She is a diligent student but has moderately severe dyslexia and average intelligence. Based on PSAT performance her sat/act scores will be below average, so I’m wondering if playing a sport could help her gain admission as well if she is a borderline candidate as I expect she could be.

 

1) how do we even know if this is possible? We often have strangers approaching us telling us that she should play in college, but we have always blown them off presuming they are trying to get her to play on their select team (a world we have never considered due to having five kids).

 

2) she goes to a newer small private school (c 200 alumni) and no one has ever played college sports. Is there something the school would have to do? To this point all of her coaches have been volunteer parents.

 

3) what sport would be a good place to start? She loves them all, and is almost immediately the best player on any team no matter how new she is to the sport. I can’t imagine her successfully competing against kids who have been playing select soccer, basketball or volleyball for years, but, then again, she does and she does great.

 

4) Im definitely not objective, and small private school sports is not that great of competition. So it seems like if we had college caliber athletes in our league, they would be going on to play in college, right? Should I just put this out of my mind? I don’t want to put any ideas in her head where she’d feel disappointment if it didn’t work out, or worse that she had disappointed us.

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One sort of bizarre thing I stumbled across is the "post-graduate year" at eastern boarding schools, like Lawrenceville, etc.

The aim of this seems to be raising the profile of a student athlete for recruitment to college athletics.  Fairly obviously, this is not for P5 schools, but for lower tier schools.

The boarding schools themselves are astronomically expensive and have competitive admissions, but, if a coach is interested, kind of like actual college, things can happen.

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4 minutes ago, harpercollins said:

14, 9th grade.

Not too late, but she should probably pick a sport or two and play select.  Find a coach who has placed kids in college and listen to what that coach has to say.  I saw too many "seventeen D1 head coaches will be at this soccer tournament" that had zero actual reach to believe many club coaches know what they're doing.  And, go to camps at schools she's interested in by end of soph or early junior year.  This stuff moves fast.

I know the trepidation -- club sports cost money.  It doesn't always have to be horrible, but we paid ~ $400 for gear and something like ~ $300 monthly, and that was cheap, especially for the quality of club.

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I have some experience with this when my oldest went through college baseball recruitment in high school. He had multiple D1 offers for partial scholarships in mid-major conferences. Ultimately, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. The schools interested didn't meet what he was looking for academically. His younger brother was actually better and had more interest but noped out of the idea the summer before his senior year. No interest in the commitment required.

The one thing I will mention is to be careful of the lower division sports. Those tend to be pay to play arrangements. Well, your kid doesn't exactly play but can be on a D3 team at a school with a high tuition cost.

 

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20 minutes ago, harpercollins said:


14, 9th grade.

What sport does she play and how does she compare against high competition at the club sports level? Even lower end college athletes at the DIII and NAIA are pretty talented and filled with good athletes.

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 What sport does she play and how does she compare against high competition at the club sports level? Even lower end college athletes at the DIII and NAIA are pretty talented and filled with good athletes.


She plays everything we offer. Volleyball, cross country, basketball, soccer, track, tennis, powerlifting. Her favorite is whatever season it is. She was state mvp for basketball but I don’t consider that her best sport.

I have no idea how she would stack up against high competition club sports athletes. I don’t even know if my smallish city has that. She is better than the other girls on her school teams that play club sports.

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How tall is she?


Small. 5'4" and probably mostly done growing.

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1 hour ago, F250 said:

I have some experience with this when my oldest went through college baseball recruitment in high school. He had multiple D1 offers for partial scholarships in mid-major conferences. Ultimately, the juice wasn't worth the squeeze. The schools interested didn't meet what he was looking for academically. His younger brother was actually better and had more interest but noped out of the idea the summer before his senior year. No interest in the commitment required.

Exactly the feedback i was looking for!! thanks. 

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

Not too late, but she should probably pick a sport or two and play select.  Find a coach who has placed kids in college and listen to what that coach has to say.  I saw too many "seventeen D1 head coaches will be at this soccer tournament" that had zero actual reach to believe many club coaches know what they're doing.  And, go to camps at schools she's interested in by end of soph or early junior year.  This stuff moves fast.

I know the trepidation -- club sports cost money.  It doesn't always have to be horrible, but we paid ~ $400 for gear and something like ~ $300 monthly, and that was cheap, especially for the quality of club.

time is the primary reason we have not considered club sports. are club sports in cities with <100000 people really legit? 

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Another thing that has me scratching my head--

I went to a giant 6A school in Texas that had multiple DI athletes in a few sports and even multiple professional athletes. I knew literally zero kids on any varsity sports team as they were celebrities. Here in our smallish city all of my friends' (white, upper-middle class) kids play varsity sports at the 4A and 5A schools. I'm guessing there's a huge difference in the large metropolitan schools vs the schools in smaller cities, and less of a difference in the 1-3A schools. 

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Isn't NCAA rowing getting like 80-something fully funded scholarships?

Just throw her in a boat and tell her to figure it out 

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14 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Isn't NCAA rowing getting like 80-something fully funded scholarships?

Just throw her in a boat and tell her to figure it out 

Yeah this is the way. 

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5 hours ago, immamac said:

Yeah this is the way. 

Not sure if serious but in the town hall CDC said there's a 3 year plan to get up to that number provided the coaches want to deal with a roster that large...didn't sound like a sure thing 

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6 hours ago, Js1 said:

Isn't NCAA rowing getting like 80-something fully funded scholarships?

Just throw her in a boat and tell her to figure it out 

Yep, that is how my school did it. That was the Title IX scholarship balancer. 

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36 minutes ago, Dennis Taylor said:

Not sure if serious but in the town hall CDC said there's a 3 year plan to get up to that number provided the coaches want to deal with a roster that large...didn't sound like a sure thing 

The roster is already 66 lol 

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I worked at a place in Austin that had a PM analyst who was a recent grad that rowed for UT. She was into fitness competitions and would often wear hip huggers to the office. When you walked passed her cubicle you could see the top of her thong and upper booty meat.

Once I was walking by her area with the head of risk management and he said with exasperation "I've reported her for inappropriate attire several times and nothing has been done."

I told him "No one in this office is going to take that complaint seriously."

Rowing is good for the booty meat.

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