<p>Do prep schools garner a lot of attention for sports from Division I NCAA colleges? Specifically baseball and basketball please. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yes, if the student is a standout. Most college coaches will tell parents not to rely solely on the HS coaches to promote your kid. Make sure you get your athlete seen at the important summer camps and combines. There are very good online services that will help you document and promote HS athletes for DI,II and III levels. It’s also important for the student to reach out and update the college coaching staff w/ updates.</p>
<p>im a junior repeat applicant for prep schools and play football. I attended some combines and got in contact with some colleges (prefer not say but in New England area), and they supported the fact i am looking to go to a top boarding school to raise my grades and get bigger so im guessing its a plus.</p>
<p>so to answer ur question yes</p>
<p>The major colleges look primarily at lacrosse and hockey players from prep schools. Some get a look from football powerhouses like Salisbury and Trinity-Pawling. Salisbury had two platers drafted by MLB two years ago (the other is at Clemson) and one may eventually play for the Phillies.</p>
<p>The majority of NE prep kids play at NEPSAC or like schools, with the exception of the numerous hockey and lax players at the Ivy’s and G’town, UVA, Denver, Bucknell etc.</p>
<p>On any given day there are a number of college scouts at at good prep hockey or lacrosse game. fif saw about 5 at at a recent Salisbury-Taft hockey game.</p>
<p>fif – sorry, have to disagree a bit. The top NE prep school basketball programs (e.g. Tilton, Brewster, NMH, etc.) send many players to D1 schools (including the Big East). The Ivy League is D1 and there are tons of prep school kids on the rosters of Ivy League football teams. So it’s not just hockey and lacrosse players that are getting D1 opportunities.</p>
<p>Six members of this year’s graduating class at Lawrence Academy have made commitments to play football at D1 schools.</p>
<p>WellMeaning – of course you are right about basketball (even St. Mark’s has a Jr. hoopster committed to Duke). South Kent has an entire team made up of D1 possibles. The Ivy is not D1 in football (it is FCS, or what used to be 1AA) and there are not a “ton” of prep players on those rosters.</p>
<p>Sue -Lawrence is an aberration as they may not send anyone to play D1 for the next 10 years. Although with that coach and his hijinks who knows.</p>
<p>A Decent number of Soccer players play Div I as well the Ghanaians on Kent, KUA, Hotchkiss, and the Brazilians, Bermudians from South Kent. PA has two kids going to BC and the ISL over the years has produced some pretty top- notch talent and well as the NEPSAC as the whole.</p>
<p>fif – I think you meant to say that NE prep school kids play at NESCAC or like schools(i.e. not NEPSAC) upon graduation. A quick look at Yale’s football roster reveals kids from St. Paul’s, Choate, Loomis, Hotchkiss, Andover, Hopkins, Gilman, Hun, Harvard Westlake, BB&N, etc. Harvard’s football roster shows kids from Milton, St. Alban’s, BB&N, NMH,Westminster, Exeter, Peddie, Lawrenceville, Governor’s, etc. I stand by my statement that Prep School kids have opportunities to play D1 (or FCS)…</p>
<p>UCONN’s football roster has kids from Loomis, Kimball Union, Avon Old Farms, Bridgton, St. Paul’s, Peddie, Tilton, Canterbury, Chesire, etc.</p>
<p>The NEPSAC schools send dozens of kids every year to play D-1 Basketball. The new AAA division (Brewster, Bridgton, Maine Central Institute, New Hampton, Northfield Mt. Hermon, South Kent, St Thomas More, Winchendon) tend to skew more to post grads that go on to mid-major to high D1 play, although NMH regularly sends a handful of kids to the Ivies - this year two to Dartmouth, one to Yale, one to Brown, as well as kids going to Seton Hall, Fairlfield and Maine. All of their seniors and PGs will be playing D1 next year.</p>
<p>The other divisions also mount highly competitive teams, with many kids playing at the high major to low D1 levels.</p>
<p>A range of this talent will be on display next week at the National Prep Championship in New Haven.</p>
<p>[NERR</a> - New England Basketball Recruiting Report](<a href=“http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/news/article/1846/Prep-Championship-Field-Announced.php]NERR”>http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/news/article/1846/Prep-Championship-Field-Announced.php)</p>
<p>Hotchkiss has also been sending kids recently to D1 schools to play basketball. Last year, two players signed D1 scholarships (Georgia Tach and Mercer); this year, another two players signed D1 (Marquette and UVA).</p>
<p>toombs^^ were they pg’s?</p>
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<p>mhmm-
The Hotchkiss players are a mix of PGs (very few) and kids who play there for 2+ years. I believe their best players in the past few years have all been students for several years including Wilson '11 who played all 4 years at Hotchkiss. While I agree that lacrosse/hockey are major college feeders you can’t completely ignore crew/squash in terms of college recruiting. Looking through Ivy/DI programs, you will find rosters chock full of bs kids (especially on the girls side). In many ways, crew is one of the few sports where a 9th grader with no experience can find themselves highly recruited by universities only a few years later. If you focus on female sports, you will find a relatively large number of DI and top DIII athletes coming from bs in a wide range of sports. In fact, Greenwich Academy and Deerfield both had female squash teams this year that would have given many college teams a tough match. Long answer to essentially say, bs sports are good for college recruiting.</p>