Best Boarding School for Fencing?

sgopal2
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:25:52 +0000

Just wanted to clarify my earlier comment. It is possible to train on an outside sport at Lville. In fact Lville has a healthy number of athletes who go onto get recruited by college coaches.

This in large part is dependent on your child’s motivation and ability to transport for outside training. Classes finish by 3 pm, and from 3:30 to 5:30 pm is the sport requirement. Then there is free time until about 7:30-9:30 pm for freshman study hall. There is more free time for upperclassmen. But there isn’t a whole lot of time to squeeze in outside training.

You could theoretically get in 2-3 days a week of outside lessons, but you’d be responsible for the transport back/forth. The athletic director has made things difficult for training in many sports (squash, fencing, etc). My own son was a squash athlete and it got so ridiculous that the AD wouldn’t let any lessons/coaching using the Lville squash courts. This led to many of the top squash kids having to travel to princeton to use the courts. This was a real pain.

And then on tournaments, many of the matches started on friday afternoon. Since classes stretched until 3 pm, you’d often have to ask for a waiver for 2 half-days of missed classes. The administration did not make things easy.