NCAA Recruiting at Prep Schools

hola3
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:50:43 +0000

mhmm-
The Hotchkiss players are a mix of PGs (very few) and kids who play there for 2+ years. I believe their best players in the past few years have all been students for several years including Wilson '11 who played all 4 years at Hotchkiss. While I agree that lacrosse/hockey are major college feeders you can’t completely ignore crew/squash in terms of college recruiting. Looking through Ivy/DI programs, you will find rosters chock full of bs kids (especially on the girls side). In many ways, crew is one of the few sports where a 9th grader with no experience can find themselves highly recruited by universities only a few years later. If you focus on female sports, you will find a relatively large number of DI and top DIII athletes coming from bs in a wide range of sports. In fact, Greenwich Academy and Deerfield both had female squash teams this year that would have given many college teams a tough match. Long answer to essentially say, bs sports are good for college recruiting.