Recommendations for basketball camps for rising 8th grader
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Anonymous
| Please give me your top recommendations for basketball summer camps for a rising 8th grade boy who plays travel. Thank you! |
Anonymous
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PGC
Wooten Gonzaga |
Anonymous
PVI |
Anonymous
| PVI |
Anonymous
| OP here. Also wondering if there are any summer leagues. My son plays baseball in the spring so we don't do spring basketball. He might like a summer league if there is such a thing. Thanks again for all the suggestions. I will look into them. |
Anonymous
One thing to be aware of for next year iif your son wants to play basketball in high school — most high schools (at least in DC and MD) play in high school summer leagues. Tryout processes vary for rising freshmen from just kids the coach already knows being invited to play all the way to a week of open gyms that constitute a formal tryout. You may want to reach out to the coach of the school your son will attend and ask about this. My son didn’t know about this but was going to high school open gyms as a rising freshman, and one day he came home with a jersey and told us he’d just played in his first summer league game. |
Anonymous
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what is PGC?
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Anonymous
Wooten is a disorganized money grab |
Anonymous
| The Jr Wizards camps were also disorganized, crowded and too much talking. |
Anonymous
| OP. Thanks this is really helpful. I wasn't aware of the summer high school league but it's on my radar now. He will be going into 8th next school year so I still have time but I appreciate the mention. We are in ffx county. I have heard of PGC. Is that any good? |
Anonymous
| Jr wizard is awful |
Anonymous
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What's the word on the camp at St. Johns? |
Anonymous
| If anyone is still looking for a basketball camp this summer Ness Basketball is running one at the Charles Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville https://www.nessbasketball.com/maryland-summer-basketball-camp |