Well hello, friends! I leave to go golf and this whole dialogue breaks out!😂
Let me only dpeak for me and my situation.
I have been at Collegiate for 45 years… this is my 46th coming up… maybe my last… who knows? I love this school… my three kids have gone here, i have 5 grandkids here, this has been my home. I can’t imagine a better school. Our teachers and administration works nonstop hard to produce a great product, in tge classroom, on the stage, in our music, in our athletics, all areas. We do not cheat. We LOSE great kids because of tuition, grades, etc. in my 46 years I have never asked a child or family to come play for us. What i DO is work. I work the halls at our school, all levels, to get kids to try tennis. I pour myself into our program, our kids, etc. i go to clinics, i talk to coaches, i breathe it. Our administration is fantastic to me… like they are to our 1-19 girls basketball team…. To our choir… to our actors. All of it.
we are a private school. We rely on kids choosing us. And i have no foubt kids have chosen us because they like the idea of playing for a tennis program that wants excellence. Like kids who somehow end ip in Derby to play football there… or Heights to play basketball there. More power to them if they were not enticed or promised.
i kind of get the publics mindset, EXCEPT look at this particular case… it really is about Bishop Miege and probably our tennis titles. Nobody minds the privates when they stink. I’m willing to move MY program up… i dont see the point in penalizing the kids at our school eho pley other sports, for our titles.
somrone mentioned WAAY back 3A being smsll… in tennis it’s 321A and it’s 40 schools, many rich in tradition.
Thanks! Have a great night!