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[quote=Anonymous]Our 12 year old son is newly enrolled in our neighborhood NoVA public middle school and interested in NoVA basketball teams. He's advanced, having played on PG county Maryland AAU teams for the past 2+ years. His last team split up so he's looking for a new AAU team, preferably in NoVA, but he's been attending tryouts now in Maryland for the 23-24 season.

We've been told by local coaches and sports parents that, unlike Maryland, the NoVA middle school AAU teams are not holding tryouts to recruit until spring because most teams don't play year round but break for their players to join FCYBL winter season teams November through February.

We believe our son has a very good chance of making a FCYBL team (and we've already reached out) but we don't know if it will be better for development and competition to switch him to a local FCYBL team or stick with AAU. It's certainly a lot easier for us to avoid winter commuting to/from practice in PG county and the extra expenses of AAU participation in winter tournaments and leagues.

[u]Questions[/u]:
1. [b]Will our son be less likely to make a middle or high school team if he's NOT playing in FCYBL?[/b] We can't assume coaches will know if a year round Maryland AAU team (not TTO or Durant) is better than FCYBL or if said coaches will assume our son couldn't make a FCYBL team.

2. Do the advanced NoVA players stop playing on FCYBL teams before 8th grade in favor of year round AAU?

TIA!![/quote]

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