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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP-Not sure how to track down spring leagues….
Following! Are those competitive? [/quote]

Probably not that competitive but frankly it’s pretty low bar for a ten year old girl to make a travel team, and your daughter didn’t make one, so rec would be fine.[/quote]
[b]For boys it depends entirely on WHICH AAU teams she tried out for.  I assume it’s the same for girls.[/b]

OP, it might make more sense to look for skill development opportunities — small group or individual training.  Most kids will learn nothing from rec because most people who coach rec are kind and generous people who know next to nothing about teaching basketball skills.

Basketball is extremely trainable.  Everybody loves to talk about talent, but most of what people call talent is really just putting in the effort to learn skills.  My kid’s trainer (an ex pro and pro coach) was adamant that he could teach any averagely athletic kid who (was willing to work crushingly hard) to be an above average high school varsity player.  My kid went from very, very bad to being one of the best on a travel team (where he played up a year) with about 18 months of individual training and small group play (mostly 3 on 3). [/quote]

For ten year old girls basketball, the bar for making an AAU team is really low.[/quote]

I think for 10yrs, it could be low but our DD is decent but the teams she tried didn’t tell us why they didn’t take her.  It is disheartening and she still seems committed. Have all teams tried out? We would still look. We will do skills clinics but really want to get her game experience. [/quote]

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