<p>I am an aspiring Princeton student who loves baseball. I've played the sport for as long as I can remember, from tee-ball to Little League to travel baseball. Although my love for the sport is undying, my abilities to play it have ended for now. My high school has no baseball team, and I am too old for the local travel teams (I had to stop playing after freshman year because of this). However, because I go to a magnet high school, I can still play baseball for my home school (the one that I am zoned for). Unfortunately, my current school ends later in the day than my home school does, and the two are about half an hour apart. This makes playing for them impossible. However, I maintain my skills by going to the batting cages, throwing the ball around, etc.</p>
<p>Now that you've read up on my situation, I have a couple of questions. I'm just going to assume that I can't be recruited because I'm not actually on a team? I've heard that I can walk onto the team at Princeton if I am accepted. Does anybody know how rigorous the team is?</p>
<p>best way to get an answer about walking on is to conatct the Princton coach by email (they should have a contact link on the team web page. It’s too bad your school schedule does not allow you to play but I’d think there are summer league/amatuer leagues which you could play for. I’d think you’d have too be an amazing player to not play competatively for 3 years and then make a DI college program.</p>
<p>Funny how the simplest solutions elude me sometimes. I’m a bit reticent to contact the coach since I’m only a rising junior and don’t even know if I’m going or not.</p>
<p>I’ve thought about playing American Legion baseball over the summer, but I’ve always had something to do, whether it be summer camp (and I do get to play baseball for a couple months there, but it’s not very competitive and hardly counts as a team) or some academic summer program. And I recognize what you’re saying about a D1 school, but I feel that I can stay competitive. I don’t think that my skills have rusted because of the maintenance I perform, and I don’t see Princeton as being a top baseball school.</p>
<p>Plus, I consider myself halfway decent at the sport. :P</p>
<p>^ Most recruited IVY league atheltes are all-conference or all-state in their sport in high school. There are probably about 150,000 HS senior baseball players and about 4500 DI players … so the 1500 or so freshman come from that population of 150,000. Princeton may not be at the top of the DI pile but please realize how good folks need to be to play DI sports at any level of DI.</p>
<p>That is impressive. My mother went to Princeton, played a few sports, and made it sound like you could just walk onto the team. Of course, that was almost 40 years ago…I should have figured that times would change. Thank you!</p>
<p>^ a lot depends on the sport. I ran track and there were a lot of walk-ons … but most walk-ons only ran in home meets … in sports where extra players are not limited by the facilities it seems walk-ons are more welcome … baseball is sport that seems to limit squad sizes though. As an aside if your Mom played at Princeton almost 40 years ago she was a real trailblazer in women’s sports!</p>