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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its going to be hard to break into those teams at this age. Try out for as many as he can and see if he gets any offers.  [/quote]

I have a 13yo who is playing select basketball. He also played other sports and wants to focus more on basketball. I don’t know how reliable his sources but two of his friends are on teams and he was told the teams were full. I assume this means that there will not be a try out?

Nova94 had an open gym a few months ago. I wonder if the open gym is the tryout.

Again, I have heard that some of these teams are full and are only seeking superstars or trying to poach really good players. My kid is not that level so I don’t know. Like the OP, I am looking for tryout information and see nothing on their websites. Some websites seem dated, like 5+ years old. Other instagrams have videos of kids playing but no tryout information.[/quote]

The tryouts for the spring/summer teams will all be in Feb/March time frame. Follow all the orgs you are interested in on instagram.

People are VERY secretive about their kids AAU teams b/c there are so few roster spots and playing time is hard to come by for a lot of kids. They don't want more competition for their kids spot or their kids playing time.

There is an AAU team out there willing to take your kid for a price, you just have to figure out what his correct level is. Don't waste your time at the Team Takeover tryouts if he's on a Division 3 select team, for instance. What select team/level is he on now? 
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DS is on a Fairfax county B team. He will probably be borderline making his fcps freshman team next year. Hoping he can get on an AAU team so he can play all spring and summer and he has a better shot at his HS team next school year.[/quote]

Game experience is important, but in terms of development, AAU was a negative for my son as a HS player.  He tended to work out at least 2 hours 7 days a week, so he wound up doing stuff like shooting drills on dark courts at the end of AAU tournaments, ball handling in the hallways, or finding a local park and doing workouts between games.   He’d travel 4-12 hours in a bus to play at most 20 minutes of 3-5 games in a weekend, so he needed to get shots up and do drills outside of the games.  [/quote]

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