The Bullis School...

I'm sure they have good coaches but, yes, they recruit athletes to go to their school. Enrollment size doesn't matter. There is another school not far from them called De Matha that does for other sports. They are a small school but they produced quite a few professional athletes. Particularly football and basketball. Google them.

Private school. Many politicians send their kids there.

The DC area has a pretty well developed youth track program infrastructure that essentially identifies promising athletes. It also has a number of private schools that focus on track and the kids get recruited and get aid to attend. Bullish is top of the heap as they have prioritized track for many years but there was at least one other DC school at NB indoors with a number of top kids

Yeah, they recruit. They have been at the top of the game for a while a lot of aspiring talents on the east coast end up choosing to go there.

That said, Joe Lee, the head coach, is a really, really, really good coach. That's part of the reason i'm just not worried about Quincy's progression - several high profile track athletes (Masai Russel and Ryan Willie) went to Bullis, and have ended up perfectly fine.

Also, fast people make other fast people faster - think Newbury park. When you have a full team of fast sprinters training together it just brings the team to a whole other level.

Bullis is a country club essentially, as are a lot of fancy privates. Acres and acres of land. And money. Tuition is pushing 60K.

Its also in the fanciest area in the richest county in the United States. Its no doubt appealing for well monied regular kids that aren't Sidwell or Prep material and for top athletes who I suspect (but don't know for certain) are provided attractive "financial aid" packages. I doubt any other local private is competing with them in terms of aid given to track athletes. That's just not a thing at other schools really. Football, Basketball? Maybe. If I was a local coach that WAS giving $$ to a track athlete (based on their athletic ability), I would make darn sure to include a noncompete or repayment clause so they couldn't just transfer to Bullis once they got good enough!

20 years ago, the dominant girl's team in the area was Eleanor Roosevelt a public school. Lately it's been Bullis for both girls and boys. The DMV has great youth programs and a large population and great coaches in every sport.

They have been one of the top HS programs for over a decade. They have sent dozens of kids to DI programs that have become NCAA All-Americans. Head Coach Joe Lee is awesome. Yes they recruit and yes it's an insanely expense private school. Yes they offer aid and yes their athletes are very very good Student-athletes academically.

They seem to focus mainly on sprints. Any distance runners?

yeah i think theres distance runner name ewan conroy

also sophmore like quincy wilson 4:36 1600 2024 indoor and 17:38 5k XC

They had a great squad some years back with Ryan Willie and Ashton Allen(and his 2 brothers). I believe they held the 4x200 and 4x400m records indoor. Interesting that Ryan Willie held the 4x400 indoor HS record and he was on Florida's NCAA outdoor record setting 4x4 team in 2022 and 2023.

All the relay records will eventually get broken by these super high schools. Love that 1985 hawthorne 3:07! Hope that stays forever but I guess it'll fall eventually.

Bullis can break it this year and they’re returning all their runners next year. A 45 400m indoor guy, two 48 mid/low 400m indoor guys, and a 1:49 indoor 800m guy. Plus a ton of depth runners. I’d be watching Penn relays this year if I were you. The 3:07 was run with 48.1-47.7-47.1-44.5.

Tell them to schedule a dual meet with Bishop Sycamore High School.