<p>Based on the way it was written? How so, because they worked a lot? They were in fact recruited, yes, RECRUITED.</p>
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<p>thatguy, I’m wondering, respectfully, if your National Champion friend was a Canadian Nat. Champ?</p>
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Recruited athletes pretty much only apply to one school, maybe two with one being a financial safety. From your wording, the fact that she could not get into “uber competitive schools” implies that she was not in fact recruited at any, or that she was recruited at one, which somehow fell through, and she subsequently applied to several other schools as a non-recruited applicant and those didn’t work out either. Even if it’s the latter I would suspect you’re not giving or getting the whole picture. Never once was I, or any of my club teammates that have ended up at various sorts of schools, or any of my future teammates at an HYP, pressed about our ECs other than our main one (which was of course heavily evaluated to determine that we were worth recruiting!).</p>
<p>Ya, my friend was in fact Canadian and won nationals there… why are you asking?</p>
<p>^ A casual look at Canadian HS T&F records looks like they’re not all that competitive compared with US marks. The womens pole vault record, for example, would not have won in our 8 school conference. I say this not out of arrogance but just to point out that that her failure to gain admittance may have been a result of her sports performance rather than a lack of ECs.</p>
<p>Valid point, but Im fairly sure that the marks are competitive… as well, we dont really have a “High school nationals”, I was referring to actual Canadian nationals, as in Youths, Juniors, etc.</p>