<p>Do you know how many applicants are designated each year as recruited athletes?</p>
<p>Do you know if recruited athletes have a significantly easier time with admissions? Does the particular sport matter with admissions?</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for any insights.</p>
<p>Talk to the coach. I know of cadets at the Academy who knew the coach well before getting admitted. Air</a> Force Academy Official Athletic Site is the web site. I wouldn't say that you have an easier time of admissions, but you are probably more likely to go to the prep school. You still have to be qualified academically, physically, and medically.</p>
<p>If you're blue chipped, you're basically going to get in. I'm not sure of how many applicants are recruited athletes, but I know that there are like 3 types of recruits, blue chip which is the highest, meaning they want you on the team really badly, gold chip which is like they want you but not as much as blue chip, and then just normal which is basically just that if you get in on your own you can be on the team I think. </p>
<p>You may have an easier time depending on how good relatively speaking your academic record is and how good you are at your particular sport, I'd say.</p>
<p>What sport are you looking into?</p>
<p>I guess Baseball. But i could be wrong.</p>
<p>(Ripken??)</p>
<p>I was recruited as a blue chip athlete for tennis and basically what the coach did for me was push my application so that even though it wasn't quite finished I got a letter of assurance in October, which meant I didn't need to worry about other colleges nearly as much. I am pretty sure that which sport it is doesn't matter much with admissions. I would imagine that certain sports are easier to get recruited for (like tennis) because less people play them, but as far as the value of being recruited from sport to sport I'd say there all the same</p>
<p>USAFA10s, did you contact the coach? Also, did you have state recognition ect? I also play tennis. I am sure that I am not good enough to be a blue chip but I am still interested in playing for the Academy.</p>
<p>Well, I actually put that I was interested in the academy on the tennis recruiting website and the coach called me. I'm assuming you would be playing men's tennis? I did not have any significant state recognition through high school tennis because of a number of injuries that magically happened right before or at state. My record is from USTA tournaments and my Pacific Northwest and National rankings</p>
<p>Actually women's. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks for the quick reply. I think I'll go check out the website right now.</p>
<p>oh, no problem, there are just so few girls on here I assumed, my bad.</p>
<p>I just submitted my baseball recruiting questionaire. I'm pretty good, but not sure if they would want me at the college level. Doesn't hurt to try, though.</p>
<p>You might have a better shot than you think. Our baseball team finished 18-33 this year, and could use some help at certain positions. Like you said, it can't hurt to try out.</p>
<p>Which teams can you say are the least competitive?</p>
<p>Well, It probably doesn't matter to you, but the women's tennis team has been a little weak lately, hopefully that will change with 2012.</p>
<p>Do you know where they are for middle infielders? They played a team near my hometown this year that I was going to go to, but I missed the game.</p>
<p>I really couldn't say. I'd recommend getting in contact with the coach for more info.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'll probably call him soon. I looked at the roster, and there weren't many infielders.</p>
<p>asafa10, I thought tennis was just offered as an intramural sport; does the Academy have a men's IC team? </p>
<p>My school didn't have a guy's tennis team, but I love to play, and I do it almost every day, so I think I could do quite well. (only singles thought, I hate doubles)</p>
<p>Yes they do have a men's IC tennis team, but you would have to play doubles as well as singles. In college tennis everyone who plays singles plays, I believe, an 8 game pro set of doubles for every competition. You may hate doubles now but how much experience do you have playing with someone good and that you get along with. I absolutely love doubles when I play with my partner (who lives over seven hours away) but it is not fun with someone of an entirely different skill level and who I don't get along with.</p>
<p>Well, I only have one friend that's almost as good as me, who I play with. And I play with my brother sometimes, but he's not very good.</p>
<p>I just don't like doubles, cause if I win, I want it to be because I beat the other guy, and if I lose, I want it to be because I wasn't good enough. I don't wana lose cause of my teammate, or just be carried by him.</p>
<p>And I know, the one of the main points of the academy is teamwork, but still, I just like being on my own for tennis... I might end up liking doubles more than I do now, but I'm still more a singles guy.</p>
<p>Wow, I just realized I pathetically misspelled your name... my bad</p>