Not recruits for official Varsity sports teams.
S may be interested in a club team at a school that has no Varsity team in his sport. Obviously, strong recruits for regular Varsity programs can have admissions sway…what about club teams?
<p>I don’t think so.</p>
<p>PAPA - no thay don’t - club sports are just that - CLUB - maybe financed in some ways by a school - may have official coach (or could be a student or grad student coach also) - but - for recuiting purposes - they have NO sway - students choose to participate in CLUB - has no effect on any financial things either.</p>
<p>What sport is your DS interested in??</p>
<p>lacrosse…S (from Baltimore) is intrigued w/ Cal, which has a good club team. I recently posted a thread on the Cal forum which gave me a clue that there may be a hint of sway for some club sports…there’s even a recruiting form on the lax club web page.</p>
<p>…he’ll probably end up in a NE LAC…we’ll see.</p>
<p>UC-Berkeley doesn’t have a varsity lacrosse team?! I was pretty certain they do.</p>
<p>PAPA - some club sports are very competive nationally - ie snowboarding - skiing - flag football - etc - I am sure lacross fits into that catagory also… and have local/state/regional/national competitions - some have alot of good regional competition. They are not NCAA sports - and I would really doubt that they would have any weight in any type of recruiting unless it is a really GOOD club team that may draw alot of players - and they have to have some method for weeding for numbers purposes. I would be VERY doubtful that club sports have ANY sway whatsoever - many club sport participants do it because of staying involved in a sport they love without the committment of a varsity/NCAA level sport - that is not to say that some don’t take up good amounts of time. </p>
<p>I would be very leary and vary careful when moving in the direction of ??offerings for any cllub sport - if the school is considering adding a club sport to their varsity roster - then maybe it is using the club sport as a feeder sport - but beware.</p>
<p>the DI men’s lacrosse teams …
<a href=“http://www.laxpower.com/update05/binmen/rating01.php[/url]”>http://www.laxpower.com/update05/binmen/rating01.php</a></p>
<p>nothing out west yet … tons of major colleges are listed here … <a href=“http://www.laxpower.com/update05/other/rating05.php[/url]”>http://www.laxpower.com/update05/other/rating05.php</a> … I believe these are club teams; serious ones but club teams</p>
<p>JeepMOM-- no, I’m hopefully not going down that path, & frankly had not thought that club sports had any potential sway at all until I found the Cal recruit form & saw one post from what appears to be a Cal player noting that there may be “some” sway akin to weighing a clarinet player better in admissions if they need a clarinet player…not to the same degree a full-fledged athletic recruit with tips, etc. I just wanted to see if anyone else out there in CC land had experienced any indication to the positive.</p>
<p>On lacrosse, yes, Cal (mens) has a well established club team which competes against Stanford, Claremont, USC, UCLA, UCSB (the 2005 national winner), & many more non-NCAA teams. Other perrenial national powerhouses in this league include Colorado State, Michigan & Florida State. The non-NCAA lacrosse play is within the USLMDIA (club teams), which has both A & B divisions, with 97 college teams & 87 teams, respectfully. NCAA Divisions 1, 2 & 3 have 57, 31, & 130 teams, respectively; so you can see that the “club” college representation is quite significant relative to the sanctioned Varsity NCAA representation. Lacrosse is still a fast growing sport (especially in places like California & Texas), & its likely more colleges will field NCAA teams in the future if budgets allow, but the club scene for the time being is an important stepping stone for growing those sports. So, a case could be made that a school could promote admissions of club players IF the school wanted to consider going NCAA in that sport, as compared, say, to ultimate frisbee (I’m not bashing ultimate frisbee, its just that its not going to be an NCAA sport any time soon, whereas lacrosse already is).</p>
<p>It depends on what sport at what university. I know NYU admitted hockey players with 1200 SAT (old). The NYU average SAT is much higher than that. Duke hockey site said, Duke Hockey actively recruits highly qualified student-athletes. Most members of the team played at the varsity level in high school, while some played juniors or club. Campus visits are highly encouraged. Members of the team are available for visits and to provide any information needed. Please fill out the following prospective athlete form and you will be contacted as soon as possible. So Duke does try to recruit good students who can also play hockey.</p>
<p>Do those college books imply that universities admit students for different needs? The school will take a cello player student if it needs one. So I will assume that if the school needs a fencer for its fencing club, it will admit the one who has fencing experience. It is not recruitment but it does influence the admission.</p>
<p>Lucky us ROFL - DD’s college choice was limited by her favorite sport!!! - and there are no NCAA plans to work it into any varsity situation - so club Snowboarding - which is very competitive BTW - as it is a racing venue situation - not just boarding trips - fit her well - when the team captain heard of her interest tho - there was no problem recruiting/convincing her to be a part of the team - and the opportunities for her have been excellent - she gets to travel - meet alot of other college students - compete at a conference/regional/national level - and enjoy the thing she loves most - and mostly on the schools dime too - even better.</p>