<p>An ivy league school has gotten commitments from one student at each of 4 different high schools in our part of the state, so there’s going to be a press release about that with pics and the ivy recruiting coach and local coaches as well.</p>
<p>Nadia60 - What sport is it for?</p>
<p>When my daughter committed, our school…and the gym where she trained…did nothing. It was kind of sad. Her teammates school, on the other hand, had the local newspaper come in and they had a signing ceremony. Of course, that was a much larger high school and they had several athletes signing. At my daughter’s school, it was just her. Our local newspaper had followed her career and done lots of features on her, though, so the knew about it and put a piece in the paper. The following year, when two of her teammates signed from her gym, the parents decided to plan the ceremony since the gym did nothing.</p>
<p>To tell you the truth, I don’t know that they do anything at my younger son’s school and they sign many athletes every year, but they don’t even announce it on their website.</p>
<p>In most cases, it would appear that it is up to the parents and students to call attention to this signing ceremony activity through coaches, guidance councelor or Athletic Director. The squeeky wheel gets the oil philosphy will have to work here by default. Most parents on this site realize the future Ivy, LAC or D3 school student does not get athletic scholarship $$, therefore doesn’t sign National Letter of Intent. I guess it falls on the parents shoulders to see some type of signing ceremony happens. My son has seen a lot of his travel team mates go through the NLI process. I’m looking forward to his upcoming “signing ceremony”, because in my mind he has worked just as hard or even harder to get his Ivy acceptance. I don’t think we’re asking too much here.</p>
<p>DD’s prep school only has signing cermonies for D1 recruits. DD will be playing D3 field hockey, no signing ceremony…which is fine with her.</p>
<p>At my school, our Quarterback signed with Alabama and is graduating early (January 28th) to start the preseason practices.</p>
<p>some students sign this week</p>
<p>several state flagships–football
as well as some LACs etc
soccer
tennis
track/field</p>
<p>a couple DIIs: M soccer players
DI Horizon League school: baseball
DI Big East school- W volleyball</p>
<p>We had 10 athletes sign on February 4.
I think it was 7 football players, 1 volleyball girl, and 2 for track. (1 boy, 1 girl)</p>
<p>The best one was when the track girl signed. Everyone was yelling. She’s going to be going to a D1 school in Texas. (Not A&M or Texas though) But she still signed well.</p>
<p>I am anxious to see which other atheletes will be signing to play…</p>
<p>2 rowers to Harvard
1 rower to Stanford
1 Basketball to U. Penn
2 Water Polo to Cal Berkeley
1 Water polo to Claremont
1 swimmer to Emory
1 soccer to USC
1 volleyball to Cal Berkeley</p>
<p>Many more to come but just in the preliminary stages</p>
<p>for the class of 2011</p>
<p>so far swimmers and baseball</p>
<p>For 2011, we have one for men’s basketball and several verballed for football, signing in February.</p>
<p>3 Star offensive tackle going to Michigan, this year.</p>
<p>So far, one LL to H for W soccer.</p>
<p>Two to Penn for softball and fencing. Two to Stanford for Cross Country. Maybe others that I don’t know about…</p>
<p>Men’s Volleyball - 2 (Stanford for both of them…CA state champs)
Track - 4 that I know of (Cornell, Yale (me), LSU, and UPenn)
Swimming - 1 that I know (USC)</p>
<p>And I am sure some others, but those are the ones I remember.</p>
<p>one for golf</p>
<p>wow this is an old thread resurrected !!</p>
<p>At my daughter’s school she only got to sign publicly because the softball coach is so inclined to engineer things such events.</p>
<p>So we had two softball players, one basketball, and one swimmer. That I know of. But I think that’s it - and all girls ! (no ivies)</p>
<p>One boy rower to Dartmouth
One boy tennis player to Yale
One girl golfer to William & Mary
One girl rower to USC</p>