<p>This weekend is the annual Sandhurst competition.
I will be headed up.<br>
anyone going? anyone been? Any tips from those who have been?</p>
<p>Have fun and take pictures! (That was lots of help wasn’t it? :D)</p>
<p>I do have a few questions about Sandhurst.</p>
<p>1) I know they practice year round, but is it comparable to a D1 sport as far as practicing daily for multiple hours?</p>
<p>2) How do they decide who participates?</p>
<p>3) Would it be hard to maintain academics/other clubs while training for Sandhurst?</p>
<p>I think Sandhurst is like participating in a club sport. At West Point every cadet is an athlete. If you are not on a Corps Squad (D-1 team) then you can try out for a club sport or you will play IM with your Company.
Each Company fields a team and they have tryouts. West Point requires that each Company team have one female participant.
It’s always hard to maintain academics. That is part of the “West Point experience”. If you are not on the Sandhurst team then you will be doing something else.</p>
<p>here is the link:
[Sandhurst</a> Competition](<a href=“http://www.usma.edu/dmi/sandhurst_competition.htm]Sandhurst”>http://www.usma.edu/dmi/sandhurst_competition.htm)</p>
<p>“1) I know they practice year round, but is it comparable to a D1 sport as far as practicing daily for multiple hours?”</p>
<p>Practices start either late in the first semester or at the very beginning of the second semester, depending on your company.</p>
<p>“2) How do they decide who participates?”</p>
<p>Volunteers and tryouts if necessary – all done within your company (it is, after all, a company team).</p>
<p>“3) Would it be hard to maintain academics/other clubs while training for Sandhurst?”</p>
<p>Welcome to West Point.</p>
<p>We went up. It was very different from last year, but we ran with our son’s company again and had a blast! What a great event.</p>
<p>Congrats to the cadets of E-4 who who were the top USMA team for Sandhurst!!</p>