<p>If you are curious about NAPS, want to attend NAPS, or have any questions about NAPS, I am here for you! I currently attend NAPS and will be USNA class of 2013. I can give you a run-down of INDOC, the academics, sports, free time, or anything else you might want to know. Your best bet would be to send me an email at:</p>
<p><a href="mailto:C090235@naps.edu">C090235@naps.edu</a></p>
<p>-M/C Ali Amico</p>
<p>I'm not sure, and others can chime in, but ... you're kind to offer insight and counsel, but is it wise of you to publish your NAPS email and thus identity? Perhaps you should offer your help in another, less visible way?</p>
<p>Hello, I recieved my acceptance letter/package to NAPS about a month or two ago.
my question is that when will the other information arrive that says when to report in at NAPS, what one is accepted to bring etc. I was told one is suppose to recieve the package 3 weeks after the addmissions recieve it…</p>
<p>Hey, NavyGirl…</p>
<p>I was wondering if you guys might still be passing around the Dartboard the guys in my class (1987) found in the overhead in 2-2?? It had a whole bunch of photographs of past classes on it.</p>
<p>We added ours and put it right back up there. Last report we had was somewhere in the late 90’s…</p>
<p>Does many enlisted people get accepted to NAPS?</p>
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<p>In years past, there were many former enlisted that attended NAPS. Quite frankly, NAPS has turned into more of a preparatory school for recruited athletes.</p>
<p>I think there’s an NCAA rule that determines how many recruited athletes USNA can send to NAPS. Not sure that’s changed.</p>
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I believe there is a fair amount of evidence that NAPS is used as much for diversity recruiting as for recruited athletes. Neither of which was it original purpose IMHO.
Why do you think this?</p>
<p>If an Enlisted Sailor qualifies for NAPS and is chosed by their commanding officer - they can virtually be assurred of a place. The reason for the decline in enlisted sailors attending NAPS is the lack of applicants. There are other avenues available for the transition to officership now that are more enticing than USNA.</p>
<p>If you are enlisted and have the aptitude to do well as an officer and at the Naval Academy, have a SecNav nomination (recommended by your commanding officer), and qualify (medically and physically) you will be accepted.</p>
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There, in fact, is. There is a limit on how many athletes any college can “redshirt” at a prep school.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a redshirt at any of the service academies. What limits is the number of spots @ NAPS and the fiscal and political realities.</p>
<p>^^^
Thank you WP!</p>
<p>Note “redshirt” in quotes.
NCAA considers recruited athletes who attend NAPS to be ‘redshirts’ - even though they are <em>not</em> officially “redshirts”.
Recruited athletes who attend NAPS do not have any commitment to the Navy nor USNA. After their year they are free to go.
Civilian colleges have been known to redshirt recruited athletes at prep school - most commonly a post-grad year at a prep school. This is not uncommon at all.
For all intents and purposes, recruited athletes at NAPS are treated identically to these athletes who are parked for a year by their civilian college. The NCAA follows this closely and the AFA got into some trouble for this some years back.</p>
<p>Let’s be clear about one thing. Students w/o any obligation to an institution are not redshirted athletes credited to those institutions. Nor is the year at a prep school counted as a “redshirt” year for that individual. They are considered high school year, subject to all the recruiting requirements of the NCAA. However, many of those rules, including the number of “scholarships” available (since all/none at SAs are scholarship athletes) do not apply to SAs. </p>
<p>Following are some excerpts from a NY Times piece awhile back. One thing it clearly notes is that even the then head of NAPS notes these are not Navy “redshirt” (quotation marks or not). In fact, they are to be treated like every other HS recruit. But definitely NOT redshirts. Not even recruits, i.e. USNA or another SA “parking” recruits @ a prep school. One other note … redshirt athletes are not permitted to participate in official competition. NAPS kids play away, as to MAPS, USAF Preppies. I think we’re a bit confused here.</p>
<p>‘‘The normal idea of a redshirt year is a recruit who is stashed away and treading water,’’ said Capt. Charles A. Hautau, the commander at the Naval Academy prep school. ‘‘Our candidates study chemistry, physics, two sections of math and English every day, five days a week. Does that sound like a redshirt year?’’
Not only that, but the prep school students are not obligated to go on to any of the service academies after their year at the prep schools. They can choose to go to private colleges. The athletes, while playing at the prep schools, can be recruited to play football for other universities. When Navy played at Tulsa, the opposing punter was a Naval Academy prep school graduate. …
The Naval Academy football coaches lament the 20 to 30 percent of athletes who have gotten away.
‘‘We’ve lost a lot of good players that came through the prep school,’’ Navy Coach Paul Johnson said. ‘‘Sometimes they didn’t get their grades up, and sometimes they just didn’t like the military or academy lifestyle.’’
Gladchuk, the Navy athletic director, said: ‘‘They are first and foremost potential commissioned officers. They may be an athlete from 4 to 6 in the afternoon, but every other minute from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. they are being groomed to serve their country. The kids that leave the prep school aren’t doing so to play big-time college football. They just don’t see the military in their future.’’
The prep schools, however, remain established feeder programs for the service academies’ football teams, a relationship the academy coaches do their best to maximize. They watch film of the prep schools’ games, write their prep school recruits frequent letters and make phone calls as allowed under National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. The entire Navy prep school will attend the Navy-Notre Dame game at Giants Stadium. Bobby Ross, the new Army coach, has had the football team at the United States Military Academy Preparatory School, which is in Fort Monmouth, N.J., play some of its games at West Point.
‘‘We want them to feel part of this place,’’ Ross said. ‘‘I’ve stayed in very close touch with their coaches. I must have been down there 10 times since I’ve been hired. I do believe that it is a very important part of what could lead to our success.’’
There are specific N.C.A.A. regulations about how the academy coaches can interact with the prep school players. In essence, the players must be treated like recruits at any other high school, although given the unusual connections between the institutions, there are obvious gray areas.
Clayton Kendrick-Holmes, the Navy prep school football coach, said he gives his players, ‘‘as much propaganda as I can,’’ in hopes that they will want to play football at Navy, where Kendrick-Holmes played.</p>
<p>P.S. I believe Northern Cal Mom is confusing USNA’s rules w/ NCAA, i.e. the NCAA does not care about this since none are officially USNA recruits. However, USNA cares how many recruited jocks get sent to NAPS. Gotta keep a proper front up that NAPS is not merely Navy High School for Future Navy Jocks.</p>
<p>And unlike redshirts who might transfer from one D I to another DI, there is no requirement to “sit out” a year @ the new school. Since in fact, there is no “new school.”</p>
<p>Hello,
Are there any programs at USNA for a freshman coming up on their sophmore year? I am currently receiving information about USNA and some of their summer programs, but im not old enough to attend any yet.</p>
<p>Hayes13: Congrats for researching early; great to see. And…Yes! There are programs you can attend. You should apply to a STEM program, and/or to a USNA sports camp. Not sure of the timeframe for apps to either of these, but you should look into it. Here is the link for STEM and other USNA pre-application programs: [Naval</a> Academy Admissions Events](<a href=“http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/events.html]Naval”>http://www.usna.edu/Admissions/events.html) </p>
<p>Also, it’s never to early to search out a BGO and have a conversation with them. They may know of other events going on in your area that you could be part of. Look in the back part of the USNA catalog online (go to [United</a> States Naval Academy - Home Page](<a href=“http://www.usna.edu%5DUnited”>http://www.usna.edu), then click “Admissions” and on the far righ you’ll see “Catalog”. Click there, then look for BGO (or Blue and Gold Officer) information, and then find Virginia and get the contact info on your Area Coordinator and give them a call or send them an e-mail. Tell them a BGO in Maine recommended you make contact with them.</p>
<p>Do the players and coaches of the Academy run the sports programs or is it other ppl?</p>
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<p>Aloha I tried to find you on f/b but no luck, my Son will be going to NAPS in July he is a football kicker please write me back or anyone else with information on what it will be like for him, he is a local boy from Hawaii, we need to know what it will be like for him, anyone?</p>
<p>Aloha, My Son is going this coming year can any one help me and let me know what to expect?</p>
<p>Aloha, My Son is going this coming year can any one help me and let me know what to expect?</p>