Sports

keylyme
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:21:15 +0000

At my son’s school it is uncommon for freshmen and sophomores to make varsity teams, but not impossible or unheard of. I don’t think they really make it via a tryout…the coaches pretty much know in advance by way of information the athlete sends in during the admissions process who will be on varsity. In a sense, they do recruit for varsity spots. As far as time commitment…games are generally twice a week (Wednesday and Saturday) and practices are the other days (or those days too if for some reason there is no game). Practices are about two hours long for most sports. My son currently does just one other EC, but he also plays one of sports at the club level year round which also takes a big chunk of time.

So, yes, you should be able to do a varsity sport or two (my son does two…would do three, but doesn’t because of the club sport commitment), and still fit in another EC.