Homeschooled sports teams are competing and winning, reports the New York Times.
Only a decade ago, home-school athletics was considered little more than organized recess for children without traditional classrooms. Now, home-school players are tracked by scouts, and dozens of them have accepted scholarships to colleges as small as Blue Mountain in Mississippi and as well known as Iowa State.
Some of the women competing in the NCAA basketball tournament got their start at the National Christian Homeschool Basketball Championships.
I had no idea!
There is a home-schooled football league starting up in our area (Detroit/AnnArbor) and I never thought it would get off the ground… but it’s really happening.
We’re lucky, though — if we send our kid to an “elective” class (home schoolers can only take non-core) at the local high school, they are eligible to play athletics. My daughter lettered in track, my son plays football.