How do kids get picked

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Anonymous wrote:At a good sports school, boys' basketball will usually, statistically, the toughest sport to get on the varsity roster for based on the number of kids who want to play vs. the number of roster spots--usually 12 to 15, depending on where you are (we're not even talking about being one of the starting 5 here).

That's also true in college. Statistically, the number of kids who play in high school vs the number of D1 spots (NCAA rules make it so each college can only have 15 players total) makes it the hardest sport to play in D1.

Men’s tennis is the hardest

For high school? LOL. No. Boys soccer and boys basketball, everywhere.

Yes tennis and golf are super difficult because of the small number of players and no subs.

Basketball is tough because 5 on the floor and basically 5-7 subs

Soccer is hard because 150 kids try out because they played soccer once in 2nd grade. The travel kids get in at 9th grade and spots open as seniors graduate.

In high school, its incredibly easy to make the golf and tennis team compared to boys soccer and boys basketball. Hardly any kids even try out for golf or tennis, relative to soccer and basketball--even at the 3000 student schools.

Depends completely on the high school. At our very expensive private West Coast high school, boys tennis is the hardest sport to get onto varsity and they have three levels—varsity, JV and frosh/soph all of which are cut sports. whereas Basketball is a walk on sport and there is so little interest in football
that you can walk onto the
Varsity team and they have to play 8 man football because they can’t get enough players. soccer is also a walk on sport.

Fascinating. Name the school where basketball is a walk on sport.

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Anonymous wrote:Pp here. Basketball teams may take you if you are 6”6”. Tennis is a skill sport. If you don’t know how to play, no chance you win a tennis match during tryouts.

Basketball is also a skill sport. Even that 6'6 kid needs skills.

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Anonymous wrote:At a good sports school, boys' basketball will usually, statistically, the toughest sport to get on the varsity roster for based on the number of kids who want to play vs. the number of roster spots--usually 12 to 15, depending on where you are (we're not even talking about being one of the starting 5 here).

That's also true in college. Statistically, the number of kids who play in high school vs the number of D1 spots (NCAA rules make it so each college can only have 15 players total) makes it the hardest sport to play in D1.

Men’s tennis is the hardest

For high school? LOL. No. Boys soccer and boys basketball, everywhere.

Yes tennis and golf are super difficult because of the small number of players and no subs.

Basketball is tough because 5 on the floor and basically 5-7 subs

Soccer is hard because 150 kids try out because they played soccer once in 2nd grade. The travel kids get in at 9th grade and spots open as seniors graduate.

In high school, its incredibly easy to make the golf and tennis team compared to boys soccer and boys basketball. Hardly any kids even try out for golf or tennis, relative to soccer and basketball--even at the 3000 student schools.

Depends completely on the high school. At our very expensive private West Coast high school, boys tennis is the hardest sport to get onto varsity and they have three levels—varsity, JV and frosh/soph all of which are cut sports. whereas Basketball is a walk on sport and there is so little interest in football
that you can walk onto the
Varsity team and they have to play 8 man football because they can’t get enough players. soccer is also a walk on sport.

Fascinating. Name the school where basketball is a walk on sport.

I'm curious too. Is the population mostly Asian? Even our tiny private cuts a lot of kids from basketball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here. Basketball teams may take you if you are 6”6”. Tennis is a skill sport. If you don’t know how to play, no chance you win a tennis match during tryouts.

Weird how many people who obviously know nothing about DMV HS basketball post here so confidently.

For reference, an unskilled tall kid is a turnover and foul machine that skilled kids will feast on all day. Coaches at competitive schools won’t touch them because they will never ever be able to play them. A 6’9” kid who was not new to the sport got cut from JV at my kid’s school for this reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son made the freshman basketball team although the had never played before based on his height and general athletic ability. They made it clear freshman year would be developmental. One of his friends who played who was the best on his rec team was not selected because he didn't stand out and his playing style was similar to many others.

This is going to depend a lot on school. My kid’s school had 100 kids show up for freshman tryouts. Kids who had been playing AAU for years didn’t make it. Almost all of the kids who did make it were kids the coaches knew and had seen play a lot in middle school and AAU.

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It must be said. There is a difference between being on the team and being a star. This is why tall kids and hustlers often make the team without as much skill as you might expect. So long as they are coachable, they make good practice squads. The coaches around here supposedly start recruiting kids in middle school often times finding ways to get them into their programs.

The coach will let you know if your kid is one of these. In middle school you might drop them off at a camp, where they'll start inquiring, about the school district they are in. They'll just happen to be at the AAU tryouts for the local clubs etc.

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Anonymous wrote:My son made the freshman basketball team although the had never played before based on his height and general athletic ability. They made it clear freshman year would be developmental. One of his friends who played who was the best on his rec team was not selected because he didn't stand out and his playing style was similar to many others.

I really doubt this is in NoVa. As a PP said, the HS teams are basically formed in 6th grade (or so) via the Select teams in our town. You will see some kids fall out or change/focus on another sport, but of the two select teams now, half will go on to be the local public freshman team.