high school and serious athletes

[Linda in NM]

I don't usually start threads, but...my 13-year-old son will be a freshman next year...we use Clonlara for our umbrella school (it's accredited, he's planning on an NCAA college experience). He was selected for Rocky Mountain Select hockey camp (one of three for his birth year, one of two goalies going from our state); he's the starting goalie for the state team; he just helped a house team win a championship up in Taos on his way back from Districts...he's serious about hockey. He practices almost every day; he trains twice/week with a trainer at a health club (he also plays club baseball to cross-train). He's more focused than anyone I've known, and I'm a little worried about the focus...

We're planning for next year--finishing Videotext Algebra in the first semester and doing Geometry the second (he's got a math brain); Apologia Biology with Honors (using the syllabus from MODG that combines biology and natural history); Trisms Ancients for history and composition (IEW)...maybe Shakespeare for literature (rotation from AO)...we also follow somewhat a CM approach (as much as we can) and I don't want to lose German, Latin, logic, and music (he plays classical viola).

Too much? too little? Am I missing anything that the powers-that-be will come down on us when we try for the NCAA stuff?

Thanks! I'd love to hear from other hockey moms, too...:bigear:

[Anne/Ankara]

Sounds like he is really well-rounded, and in a terrific position. Just wanted to point you to a recent series of articles in the New York Times about NCAA scholarships (ice hockey is one of the top paying scholarships, luckily!). Some interesting statistics and information in the series...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/sports/10scholarships.html?ref=education

[Linda in NM]

Many thanks, Anne! This has been his year, no doubt!

[Margaret in CO]

Something to think about--usually NCAA wants to see very bland course titles. Now, I've only done the NCAA as a hser--once completely free-lance and once after NCAA not accepting our NARS transcript. Instead of Literature of Tolkien, they wanted English IV. It wasn't any big deal, but just a heads-up.

Will they accept a straight across Clonlara transcript? They turned down NARS because student didn't actually take classes in a bricks and mortar building. We're trying to decide what to do with dd#3. Depending on the MRI today (which may determine the rest of her life athletically) she's looking at serious college sports. I'm not sure I want to deal with NARS again. We looked at Clonlara with dd#2, but shied away because they look rather alternative. We were looking at military, so didn't want to look alternative.

[Linda in NM]

According to Clonlara, they have several graduates who have pursued NCAA college sports...from the home education location. They also offer Compu-High, which is Internet based. Don't know if we'll do any of those courses, though--he tried Lego/LOGO from Potter's School and was bored to tears...(100% average, so he obviously was "getting it...")