High School Basketball
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Anonymous
| Is there a place to discuss high school basketball here? I see soccer and lacrosse have their own but what about basketball? Is there another website where local basketball talk takes place? |
Anonymous
| You can try to discuss it here but no one seems to participate. I've tried. Very much interested in getting more specific information about HS basketball within FCPS for those with no AAU experience. This is for Girls. DD missed on AAU due to COVID and didn't make the team she tried out for this year (8th Grade). We probably should have tried for more than one team lol |
Anonymous
| Basketball is just a much smaller community in this area. DD plays basketball and soccer and I can probably name at least a half dozen local soccer clubs for every local basketball club |
Anonymous
| It’s a shame because there are a lot of lessons learned by parents who’ve gone through it that could be shared with people whose kids are just starting the process. |
Anonymous
How to say you are white without actually saying you're white. |
Anonymous
| Black or white, compared to soccer and lacrosse there are fewer teams. And it can be like trying to find the proverbial needles in a haystack, trying to find tryouts, etc. I have girls who play(ed) HS soccer, volleyball and basketball. The other sports clubs have better marketing. |
Anonymous
| So no parents who have HS players to share experiences for us? |
Anonymous
| My son will be a freshman in FCPS next year. I’d like to hear about how many boys generally are on a freshman team. Does a strong rec player - no travel experience- have a chance to make the team? Anything we that happens practice related this summer? I know the Fall sports start practicing in the summer, and when my daughter was a rising freshman it was hard to get information about joining some practices prior to tryouts. Thanks! |
Anonymous
It’s typical for 13-15 boys to be on a freshman squad in FCPS. It’s not that uncommon for kids without travel team experience to make a freshman team. |
Anonymous
| The popularity of ANY high school sport and ability to make the team is very dependent on which high school you are talking about. I know of one school you don’t need any experience playing baseball and can make the teams no problem. I know of another school where there are 50+ kids who play year round trying out for 18 slots. It is so specific to the school. |
Anonymous
Not really. Any large public high school (2000+ kids) around here will be super competitive for the mainstream sports like basketball, baseball, soccer, especially on the boys side. It is really, really hard for a kid who has only played rec to get on these teams (unless they are just a phenomenal athlete without the means to pay for travel sportsa). Around 80 freshman boys tried out for basketball at my dc's school last year. |
Anonymous
\ Are you suggesting that *lacrosse* is more popular than *basketball* in the DC area? That's hilarious. |
Anonymous
To get information about basketball teams, you really need to look on Twitter or Snapchat. It’s different than other sports that have more up to date Web sites. Also, it’s somewhat location dependent. You will see more notices posted about tryouts in places like the Bowie City Gym than you will in MoCo or most places in NoVa. We also found basketball to be a bit insular — like there’s not a big effort to reach out to kids who are not already plugged in to teams via friends and family. Once my kid started playing for his high school (Wilson, now JR in DC) and playing for an AAU team in PG county, he’d get texts about tryouts and open gyms that were theoretically public but not published anywhere. It was surprising to me as a non-basketball person to see all of the stuff going on that I’d never have known about. My kid got invited to a random open gym at some church gym, and asked me to drive him. When we showed up, there were kids from several different DMV high schools and some college players. Two kids were close to 7’ tall. It wasn’t a recruiting thing. Somebody just had access to a gym and wanted to get a regular off season open run going. |
Anonymous
If you're talking about organized club lacrosse vs organized club basketball, yes and it isn't particularly close. If you're talking about pickup basketball, that's a different story, but that doesn't seem to be what OP is talking about |
Anonymous
If your kid could not play basketball you can say that. Basketball is much more popular around the area at both levels outside of your rich white bubble. My DS is playing basketball D1 and has heard from college coaches that the DMV is one of the capitals of the world in terms of producing basketball players. |