Arlington travel tryouts?
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Anonymous
Yes, at least for 5th grade. Same for 8th. |
Anonymous
Ditto for 7th grade / 7A. So predictable. DS and I guessed who would be on the team before tryouts and he was spot on (he made a lower team). |
Anonymous
| Why doesnt Storm just have their own basketball team. They could limit it to only storm Baseball players. Instead they pretend this is an open tryout. My kid said it was obvious what was going on. I told him he should have called them out on it. It's really too bad the county as a whole gets so few teams in the league and then you go to tryouts and find out half those spots are reserved for kids who play for storm |
Anonymous
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Talking with other Arlington parents we know, it appears as if some grades added a few new players--very few. Team rosters are set to private now, but when they open up I will try to report back on team movement from grade to grade, fyi.
Two of my son's friends who had never played for ATB but AAU teams made a B team so that's good news. But I agree with prior posts assuming the baseball players have a significant advantage to make an ATB team. I doubt many of the baseball players have time to play for AAU teams during spring/summer season so not sure how they would gain so much basketball experience to make a division 1 travel team or even keep up their skills in off seasons. |
Anonymous
| Very sorry to hear this happens on the boys’ side. FTR, this has not been our experience with the girls. |
Anonymous
On the girls, Arlington and the Hurricanes might as well be the same team |
Anonymous
| Well that makes sense given the Hurricanes are a girls AAU basketball program. It should feed to a competitive AAU org. The Storm is baseball org - not an appropriate feeder to a boys basketball team. |
Anonymous
Your 2nd paragraph is absolutely true. Dont be confused many (but not all) are good to great athletes but most don't play basketball all year around. As they age up, the lack of year around becomes apparent. ATB is fine with those results The girls side is a different matter because it is intertwined with an AAU basketball program (though just an okay one) it provides some additional development. |
Anonymous
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A kid doesn’t necessarily have to play basketball year round to be, for lack of a better word, better at basketball than many of the kids who DO play all year. Often playing basketball in season, combined with being a great athlete, combined with size is enough. It’s sad for the kids who are super dedicated but sometimes that’s just how the cookie crumbles. |
Anonymous
| My son is in college now, but it was interesting to me which kids from 8A, 8B and 8C made their high school varsity teams and which didn't. Almost all made freshman teams, but by Varsity there were a 2 or 3 from the C team, and a few more from B and A. Several kids from the A team got cut. I'm just putting that out there for those kids feeling discouraged about their placement. |
Anonymous
| Do they not allow parents to watch the tryouts? So many anecdotes involving peeking in the window and standing by the door... |
Anonymous
| usually coaches with something to hide are the ones who don't let parents stay |
Anonymous
Maybe, but I can see why a coach doesn’t want 50 parents in there yelling things at their kids during the tryouts. |
Anonymous
Every parent staying for practice was a huge red flag when my kids were looking at teams. |
Anonymous
| Curious how you get on the board of ATB? |