<p>Rugby. Not many play in high school in the US, and there are lots of transferrable skills from basketball, soccer, etc.</p>
<p>Other sports have a good amount of transfer - gymnastics to diving for example.
Sometimes it’s almost better to learn something in college because the coaching is so much better - you don’t learn bad habits.</p>
<p>Another sport people regularly take up in college and become very good at is crew.</p>
<p>So if you are not feeling the love for the sport you are in, there are many possibilities.</p>
<p>I’m still hung up on her being drill team captain as a sophomore. At our HS, it has to be a senior. (And a person could never dive and do drill team.)</p>
<p>Interesting Geomom about crew. My older son had been a varsity basketball and volleyball player in high school. He is 6’6". However, when he got to UVa and went to the student fair as a 1st year at the start of school, he said he was bombarded by crew guys who tried to talk him into coming out for crew. He called me, very confused, saying that these crew guys keep trying (“like 3 different times”) to get him to join them-telling him they train, live together, have fun,etc! He passed but maybe it would have been interesting! I have since realized that I guess it is not uncommon to look for the appropriate body type, athleticism, and then train them , even if they have no prior experience with crew.</p>
<p>The Wisconsin men’s crew was long built through recruiting kids with the right body type out of freshman registration lines. They had great success too winning many championships. It remains a non-scholarship sport competing in the top division. Most members are also great students and go on to real world success while remaining close to the program.</p>
<p>Pretty much the same experience at UCLA – Crew members would stand outside the bookstore and stop students who had the right physique. </p>
<p>But as to a soph. being recruited (informally) – sure it happens, particularly easily in sports where it is easy to evaluate athletes on the numbers. We grow runners around here, and the running community is both very tight (you can see top name runners helping to set up XC courses for meets) and filled with folks who have significant connections to coaches all over the country. Coaches don’t have to violate rules for kids to still be very aware that the school is interested in them.</p>
<p>How funny. When I read this post, the first thought that came to my mind was rugby and crew. I remember stories about the formation of a rubgy U.S. National team and how it sounded like a poor remake of the 1992 A League of Their Own. Crew came up because of the recruitment stories in college.</p>
<p>She has been selected by the team captain and coach from this year to be the captain for next year (2010-2011) - when she’ll be a junior. She got it as a junior because she is an amazing choreographer and dancer. Five returning students automatically get put on the drill/dance team for the next year - and the rest need to try out again with the incoming freshman. The captain that has been selected for next year makes up the routines for tryouts, etc. and has alot of responsibility with tryouts and camp, etc. Also, our drill/dance team is a Fall Sport and Diving is a Winter sport, so there is no overlap.</p>
<p>How about using athletics as a way to backdoor into the school? I’ve known people who have done that. What you do is be good enough to get recruited by your dream school, and then drop out of the sport freshmen year… you have your school, and you don’t have to play. Btw recruited athletes get brownie points in the admissions process
what do you think, op?</p>
<p>wannabe90: No offense, but that is SO unethical. The coach has put him/herself out there for you, backed you through the admissions office, got you accepted in place of other qualified applicants, all in the trust and good faith that your word is good. That coach supported you over another athlete (who most likely was truly and honorably committing to play the sport in college). It is an AWFUL thing to do!!!</p>