Originally Posted by Anonymous
MCD's male enrollment is not substantial. Neither is JC's. So them being among the top in many of major sports is impressive. They both seem to get a lot of bang for their buck.
StP used to have a lot of 2-way athletes, but that has fallen off greatly in the past decade or so.
Loyola and CH simply have too many kids to allow a ton of multiple sport athletes. If you go to those schools they ask kids to "focus" on one sport. It saves a roster spot and gives more kids in the school a chance to participate in a sport. I am not a fan of that, but I totally understand why they do it. Good to have more kids involved, I guess.

700 boys on campus = "male enrollment not substantial." Yeah OK.

Loyola and CHC are not trying to "make spots" for kids to "participate." What are you even talking about.

At the varsity level of the sports that cut players (football, basketball, lax, soccer, baseball), yes, some kids will be asked to focus but most will not. The schools carry large rosters in every sport and many students play 2 sports through 10th and in some cases 11th and 12th grade.