Basketball - options for above average player in Northern Va

[Anonymous]

What typically is the commitment for select leagues?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize vienna had AAU basketball.

Almost all of their county players are on the same AAU team. It’s tough to know if the player wouldn’t make the county team because it’s already full or because of the kid’s skill set.

Which AAU team?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What typically is the commitment for select leagues?

For county league teams? Two nights of practice a week from mid-October to the end of Feb plus 1-2 games per weekend starting in Dec and the games can be close by or far, far away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize vienna had AAU basketball.

Almost all of their county players are on the same AAU team. It’s tough to know if the player wouldn’t make the county team because it’s already full or because of the kid’s skill set.

Which AAU team?

NoVA Cavs. And some on Team Wootten.

Best to avoid Vienna. Even if your son makes the team, the coaches mostly play their favorites while benching the others.

[Anonymous]

Yeah. Sounds like your tryout time woild be better spent with orgs that have D3 teams, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't realize vienna had AAU basketball.

Almost all of their county players are on the same AAU team. It’s tough to know if the player wouldn’t make the county team because it’s already full or because of the kid’s skill set.

Which AAU team?

NoVA Cavs. And some on Team Wootten.

Best to avoid Vienna. Even if your son makes the team, the coaches mostly play their favorites while benching the others.

Any info on Team Wootten? Do they practice and play alot? Evenly distribute playing time? My son is interested in trying out next time around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Sounds like your tryout time woild be better spent with orgs that have D3 teams, OP.

How I do find the orgs with D3 teams? Newbie parent here, so all this is useful info to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Sounds like your tryout time woild be better spent with orgs that have D3 teams, OP.

How I do find the orgs with D3 teams? Newbie parent here, so all this is useful info to me.

What age, boy or girl, and what's your zip code?

[Anonymous]

What are good county options for a 7th grade boy average player who wants to get better? We live in 22030 and I really don't want to drive far for games or practices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are good county options for a 7th grade boy average player who wants to get better? We live in 22030 and I really don't want to drive far for games or practices.

The games can all be far away. If you can't drive far, stick with house league.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are good county options for a 7th grade boy average player who wants to get better? We live in 22030 and I really don't want to drive far for games or practices.

The games can all be far away. If you can't drive far, stick with house league.

+1 Somehow Gainesville is part of the Fairfax county league

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are good county options for a 7th grade boy average player who wants to get better? We live in 22030 and I really don't want to drive far for games or practices.

The games can all be far away. If you can't drive far, stick with house league.

+1 Somehow Gainesville is part of the Fairfax county league

That's actually a lot closer for us then all the terrible gym locations they have in south alexandria like Bryant HS!

[Anonymous]

going to bryant hs on a weeknight is the worst

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Sounds like your tryout time woild be better spent with orgs that have D3 teams, OP.

How I do find the orgs with D3 teams? Newbie parent here, so all this is useful info to me.

Here is the link to the FCYBL site page to look up all the teams by grade and division:

http://www.fcybl.org/Bulletins.asp?org=fcybl.org

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Isn’t Mclean Select competitive? And they certainly wouldn’t be looking for a not so great player for their zip code exception.

The bigger organizations have B and sometimes C teams for the same age group.
Each team gets two exceptions. The first team will be hard or impossible to make.
Easy to make the third team even out of zip.

Last year McLean Select only had an A and B team. There were probably 80 kids trying out.