New Balance AA or American Select?
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Anonymous
| I know this has been discussed a lot already, but bringing it up again. Is one better than the other? Which option are most people signing up for? |
Anonymous
Just one person's opinion. American Select is a better tournament but for DC area locals the New Balance AA is far less expensive. Both are good, but just feel like AS is a better experience. To each their own. |
Anonymous
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AA
Advantage: no B teams so that helps in making more exclusive Less regions overall The AA Senior game is a big deal and it helps to have AA under your belt Disadvantage: Outside of LI & MD, the competition is really poor with some regions really struggling due to AS being the top option AS imo better with social media, tied to hip with BIC which leads to more opportunities. |
Anonymous
DD has not done AS, but has done AA 2x. Here are some of the benefits we've observed: Local Less Expensive Has banquet and option to go to senior game if that's something your DD would like One team per region (AS often has quite a few more than that in certain regions) Fun uniforms Goes through junior year and then has senior games (AS ends after sophomore year). Becomes invite only junior year and it looks as though participation helps a bit with being selected to team junior year. Less so with senior games where only a handful are invited. Good college coach presence recruiting year (my understanding is coaches usually go to AA one day and AS the next) All that said, I will acknowledge that for some regions the team strength is lower. Baltimore team is always stacked as many players choose to stay local after a long club season, Philly and Long Island teams are usually strong, NJ and DC are usually pretty good as well. |
Anonymous
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The competition for these teams is fierce. My recommendation is do the team your DD makes.
If your DD makes AA this year, think about doing AS next year. |
Anonymous
| so do most kids try out for both? |
Anonymous
Not typically, because the tryouts aren’t at the same time and you have to accept and pay for AS before AA tryouts even occur. You might tryout for AS and if you don’t make tryout for AA. But if you don’t make AS, there is a good chance you won’t make AA either. AA also has some girls from Maryland teams that tryout |
Anonymous
| AA is better, smaller, just as many coaches, cheaper and your player has a better chance of standing out there because it’s not such a huge venue with multiple teams from the same state! Do AA Skip AS. Mom of 3 D1 lax players advice. |
Anonymous
Agreed. |
Anonymous
| It looks like the AA and AS tryouts for DC are within days/ a week of each other this time. |
Anonymous
| American Select allowing parents coaches. Skip it |
Anonymous
100% |
Anonymous
And there seem to more politics and back room deals with AS. My kid has done both, AS made some terrible roster mistakes with cuts and roster assignments. With AA, there were only a few head scratchers, but they got it mostly right. Do AA if you can, but AS is still a great experience if your kid gets on. |
Anonymous
i don't see coaches names for the DC area, are they listed elsewhere? |
Anonymous
Names are on the website. |