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Well, you can find out if a prospective students has interests in certain sports, but you don't know for sure how good they may be. I guess the biggest thing is that you keep getting them from Europe where you have a better chance of them being a good basketball player. Other countries do not have the focus on bball, and normally European students tend to concentrate on a certain sport, or field, therefore giving you a good shot that they will be decent. I am in know way saying TS finds out if they are good or not, or tries to, just some theory, or logic behind it.

I think the thing that many people are overlooking is that these exchange students and transfers want to come here, specifically to the Twin Springs area because families will welcome them into their homes.

It is not as if these kids are coming here against their will or getting multi-million dollar contracts to play high school basketball.

It is a great opportunity for these kids to experience a different culture and most are very appreciative.

It seems that a lot of people resent Twin Springs fans because they have such in interest in basketball that they are willing to take advantage of these opportunities. I personally wish more schools had the same devotion to basketball.


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Well, you can find out if a prospective students has interests in certain sports, but you don't know for sure how good they may be. I guess the biggest thing is that you keep getting them from Europe where you have a better chance of them being a good basketball player. Other countries do not have the focus on bball, and normally European students tend to concentrate on a certain sport, or field, therefore giving you a good shot that they will be decent. I am in know way saying TS finds out if they are good or not, or tries to, just some theory, or logic behind it.

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I think the thing that many people are overlooking is that these exchange students and transfers want to come here, specifically to the Twin Springs area because families will welcome them into their homes.

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I don't think that they want to come specifically to TS. They don't have a clue who TS is in Europe. They want to come to America for an opportunity. They don't care so much where, and most would prefer to go to a big city if they had their choice I would guess.

Its just that there have been a few folks from TS who have opened their doors, and those select few have received kids who played a lot of bball in their respective country.

There are exceptions, and they are at probably 75% of the schools in the area who do have ES students. Some play sports, most do not. I do remember PV having a football player or two in the past. Appy with Papst, RC with Grabner, GC currently with the volleyball girl, and TS with their 5 over the past 11 years.

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There are exceptions, and they are at probably 75% of the schools in the area who do have ES students. Some play sports, most do not. I do remember PV having a football player or two in the past. Appy with Papst, RC with Grabner, GC currently with the volleyball girl, and TS with their 5 over the past 11 years.

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That's the disparity that I can't turnover in my head and make sense of. Most schools will get 2-3 of these exchange students in the course of a decade, but it seems like TS gets a LOT more, and also gets a lot more that seem helpful in sports, especially basketball.

I can agree to a point. I know RC hosted 3 while I was in school. All were females, and only one participated in sports, although she didn't see significant playing time.

I know of other families at GC who have hosted, but they have not played ball, and of coure I know there are many others out there in the same situation.

Yeah...that's what I mean man--if other schools get a participating exchange student in a sport, the Chris Papsts of the world are far & few between. But it's like TS is playing with loaded dice or something...when they take a chance on a kid, bring him/her into the country as an exchange student, they most of the time roll a 7 with how good of an athlete he/she is and they contribute. It can't just be blind luck. Most schools might get 1 exchange student to contribute noticeably in an entire decade...TS can get about 5-7 to contribute in a decade.

For instance--TS had a slow start to the season this year, and then about 1/3 of the way into it, the news comes that they have an exchange student. Within 2 games, the kid works his way into the starting lineup and to me looked like their 2nd best all-around player come Regions. I mean I used to play connect the dots a lot as a kid, but this is connecting dot 1 to dot 2...there's a connection there. I looked at everyone around me watching Pecev play, and I told them...you can tell...just look at how he handles himself on the court--where he goes to, the moves he uses--he's played in Europe and played against pretty good competition to come over here and make an almost seemless transition.

He has made anything but a seamless transition. He is just now getting used to the style of play. His first three or four games were rough. He still gets whistled for the occasional O-foul for pushing off.

5 in 11 years. That is the number of basketball playing exchange students TS has had. In that same time span, I would say there have been at least 10 or 15 exchanges students at the school.

dude you should have watched PV tennis back in the day. A little before my time because it all ended when I was a soph. but every year for about 7-8 years they had at least one exchange student on their team. Stefan Sickel was a legend, similar to Henning but didnt stay here for college. Before him they had Chris Rohr from switzerland and Ola Erickson from Sweden on their team at the same time. Like I said, every year, it was no coincidence.

Just wait man, if I get the tennis team in the future, Im going to south america in a boat. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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5 in 11 years. That is the number of basketball playing exchange students TS has had. In that same time span, I would say there have been at least 10 or 15 exchanges students at the school.

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That was what I was saying, I hope that wasn't misinterpretted. TS also had an ES student this year, and he was part of the football team. I am sure there were others at TS. I was just mentioning ES students at other schools who contributed in the sporting fields that I know of.

Burton has a top notch mexican kicker playing next year. His family owns mi finca so hes not reall an exchange student. He has a chance to get all region, maybe all state praise from what Ive been told.