Walk-ons at Yale: they need you!

beenthere2
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:59:31 +0000

Quite frankly, there are VERY FEW athletes that are good enough to play (even for the Ivy league purely based on four years of high school sports. Most very good athletes, even if they play the sport for their high school teams — and many don’t — play and train somewhere else in addition, e.g for a club team, national team, etc. I always have to smile when a parent thinks their kid is recruitable solely because they’re on the varsity team of their high school. Crew may be an exception because there are top programs run by high schools, but even then, many recruits come from club programs or via the USRowing programs.