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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the other thread about cuts, everyone mentioned how you many kids on travel teams since 8 don’t pass freshman tryouts in high school. Even if your kid is lucky enough to make varsity, it doesn’t matter much for admissions. It’s just crazy when it’s so hard to make the high school team.

This can't be real. [/quote]

It's very real at sports powerhouse high schools. At my kids school there were many college bound AAU women's basketball players or club volleyball players who couldn't make the varsity team.[/quote]

There are crappy club teams in every sport…if you are trying to claim that there are AAU players that are playing in college but can’t make the HS team, I find that hard to believe, unless they are playing for a crappy D3 team (of which there are many).

Even the very best DMV basketball teams (some nationally ranked) have players that aren’t playing in college.[/quote]

Happens all of the time. I'm in CA so let's use what I know as an example:
Ontario Christian
Mater Dei
Etiwanda
Sierra Canyon
Archbishop Mitty are the top 5 girls BB schools and all are ranked in the top 10 in the country (along with some MD/DMV schools so good for you). Mitty's coach is the U16 national team coach. Kids go to these schools shooting to make a team because they are the best.

Three of them are volleyball powers as well.

Kids that don't make the team still play club sports because club is what actually matters for recruiting, not HS. There are lots of kids at these schools who go on to play at good college programs without being able to make their HS team.

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Yet, the MD/DMV HS teams you mention above have girls playing on those teams who are not playing in college at all.  Now, they are likely only interested in top D1 programs (either top from an athletic perspective and/or Ivy D1)...but the reality is they are not recruitable by those colleges, yet they are still on the HS team.

I can't speak for CA schools.

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Maybe they aren't but that isn't to say that they aren't good enough to play somewhere. My DD's HS team was a national top 10 team when she was there. I know 3 kids (a high academic D3, and 2 mid-major D1) who didn't make the varsity team after their sophomore year so they were done. There is a kid at a well known Patriot League school who never left the bench in high school as well. When you only carry 3 or 4 kids per grade it can be brutal.[/quote]

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