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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

If your son is on a FCYBL B team, he will 100% make his FCPS freshman team. [/quote]

That is 100% wrong. Our org had two teams last year for 8th grade boys. Most of the B team players did NOT make the freshman team at two different large FCPS high schools. [/quote]

Unless your kid goes to Woodson, Madison, or maybe one other school, the freshman teams are terrible. There is no possible way that bad rec players are beating out FCYBL kids that are decently coached. Maybe that is your issue...[/quote]

Who said bad rec players were beating out FCYBL kids? Its unusual for a rec-only player to even make the freshmen teams at the larger high schools I am familiar with. The freshman teams are kids who played AAU and/or various FCYBL teams. Maybe 1-2 rec kids, if they are really tall. Most high schools have multiple FCYBL orgs feeding into their school (e.g., kids from Reston, Herndon, CYA and Vienna teams all dumping into the same HS).[/quote]

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