Montgomery Sports Association (MSA)?

[Anonymous]

Anyone familiar with their basketball league? Is it even a league or do they have one team per age group and play others? Their website is so sparse on information, that I can't figure out anything. All I know is that my kid got invited to join after trying out. If he doesn't join, he'll probably sit the season out until winter, but I'm trying to figure out if he should participate. I'm pretty clueless about all things related to organized sports.

[Anonymous]

From what I gathered they have two programs.

They have a developmental lower level, kind of an in house program.

Then they have teams that play in the HBL league and I think that's their higher level league.

It probably varies by age group/team with them.

I did like how they had professional coaches. Unfortunately the teams that our kid was on and that we saw, most of the kids didn't really know how to play basketball. For some reason a lot of them knew how to spin a ball on their finger. But they didn't know how to dribble, shoot or make a layup.

So we're unlikely to go with them again.

Don't know what level and age your child is. It might be a good fit for some other people but wasn't really what we were looking for. It was better than another program that we were originally in that charged double the price for not much better or just the same. ie MSA was like $350 or $450 for the season, the other program was $800.

The person that runs it, Sharon, is pretty responsive. So you can email her to clarify what league the team would be playing in and if the players you saw during tryouts are the ones who will be on the team and any other questions you may have.