Hi,
Sorry for posting so many questions! All of you are so helpful, and I can’t help but try and get these answered. I’m just wondering how ‘good’ students should be in order to contact coaches? In this case, could a student who is applying for 10th grade contact a JV coach for a sport like swimming at Exoverkiss (student would be middle to top of the JV team in 10th grade)? Would the JV coach have any weight in this scenario? Or do only Varsity coaches have weight?
From my somewhat limited experience and a heck of a lot of reading here I believe that in order for a coach to go to “bat” for a student, s/he must be an impact varsity player. In terms of swimming (since that’s the sport I know most), I would say you need to have one or more AAA cuts in events that the school swims (no 200 breast, back, fly; no 1650, etc.) in order to be considered an impact swimmer. You would need to be able to score points for the school your first season on campus.
JV team has no weight.
They do not recruit JV players nor do those players ever have any preferred status.