High school teams chance

[Anonymous]

Is it impossible to make high school basketball or lax teams in affluent areas if you never did travel/club teams? Think W schools in DMV area like Churchill or Whitman or WJ?

[Anonymous]

At a W, probably not unless your kid is an off the charts athlete

[Anonymous]

Yes quite impossible. Kids have private coaches plus they have been playing on travel teams. Do yes if your child wants to make a high school team they need to start playing more competitively from a young age

[Anonymous]

Basketball is harder because the team is so small. If your kid is athletic and willing to do a bit of practicing before the season starts I think JV lax might be easier. Different highschools have different strengths. If you name the school you are talking about people can give you better advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes quite impossible. Kids have private coaches plus they have been playing on travel teams. Do yes if your child wants to make a high school team they need to start playing more competitively from a young age

Those kids are playing WCAC, you're still competing against travel kids, but not that level of travel kid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes quite impossible. Kids have private coaches plus they have been playing on travel teams. Do yes if your child wants to make a high school team they need to start playing more competitively from a young age

What if they play another sport on travel team, like soccer or hockey, and they play recreational lacrosse or basketball through 8th grade, so they're a good athlete and playing a sport with some similarities at a travel level, but not experienced in that particular sport. Any chance of still making the high school team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basketball is harder because the team is so small. If your kid is athletic and willing to do a bit of practicing before the season starts I think JV lax might be easier. Different highschools have different strengths. If you name the school you are talking about people can give you better advice.

Whitman

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Is it impossible to make high school basketball or lax teams in affluent areas if you never did travel/club teams? Think W schools in DMV area like Churchill or Whitman or WJ?

Please don’t mix basketball with lax. Lax is definitely possible. Basketball probably not unless your kid is a genetic freak

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Is it impossible to make high school basketball or lax teams in affluent areas if you never did travel/club teams? Think W schools in DMV area like Churchill or Whitman or WJ?

Please don’t mix basketball with lax. Lax is definitely possible. Basketball probably not unless your kid is a genetic freak

Disclaimer - my kids are young and we didn't have Lax where I grew up, so it's a sport I'm still trying to learn. However, we have a lot of wealthy, not terribly tall white kids in our town whose parents seem to be pouring a lot of money into lacrosse, which leads me to believe the high school basketball team would be easier to make than the high school lacrosse team.

[Anonymous]

Define "high school team". Varsity -- probably not. But certainly could have a chance at playing freshman or JV.