My niece got a full ride to UC on a rowing scholarship. She took up rowing in her junior year while at NDA after surgery forced her to give up swimming. Didn't know anything about the sport either. Learned as she went along. Talk about a boring sport. Like cross country, there's literally no excitement until they come to the finish line.

 

Thers's a rowing program at NDA?

High School Sports won't die, they will just be recreational extra curricular activities. I think swimming is already there.

 

Is the bolded necessarily a bad thing? If we can still impart the values of commitment, teamwork, discipline, etc. to kids playing recreational extra curricular activities, would we be returning to what high school athletics used to be like?

Is the bolded necessarily a bad thing? If we can still impart the values of commitment, teamwork, discipline, etc. to kids playing recreational extra curricular activities, would we be returning to what high school athletics used to be like?

 

No, its not. I have commented elsewhere that as a community, we at BGP lose perspective that the purpose of high school sports is youth development, not parent or fan entertainment

Thers's a rowing program at NDA?

 

Sorry, no there's not. Bad sentence structure. She took up rowing while at NDA but rowed for the Cincinnati Rowing Club or something like that.

If anybody thinks Golf sounds crazy for a Women's scholarship sport, try rowing!!! Because of Title 9 and the need to offer equal scholarships to both genders, schools recruit for these teams and they are open to those with NO EXPERIANCE. Have seen this with schools in the west and north east.

You are right and I did leave the title 9 thing out but I'm pretty positive why girls golf is a great way to go if you want to earn a scholarship.