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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not AAU, but relevant for the general "NoVa basketball" theme:

When your FCPS kid is a rising ninth grader, ask the high school in February/March about the Pre-Freshman Spring Basketball League tryouts.

Some high schools field teams for the girls league, which I think takes place at Fairfax HS, and for the boys league, which is at Edison.

If your middle school isn't the majority feeder for the high school, you may not hear about the tryouts unless you ask.

Overall, it's a good experience - it helps your kid get to know the frosh coach and learn the offensive sets. The travel kids from the FCYBL join up with the "just House" kids to represent their schools, and no one can feel superior to anyone else.

Despite the name of the league, keep in mind that it isn't actually for rising ninth graders *only*. West Potomac uses varsity players on its teams (yes, they cheat), and the South County team consists of rising JV players. Woodson, on the other hand, does field a team that's only rising ninth graders and no one else.

It would be a good thing if the schools agreed to return the league to its original idea - which was to give rising ninth graders a taste of HS basketball, not to give reps to eleventh graders - but even though that won't happen, it's still a worthwhile experience for any kid who aspires to play in high school.

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This is great info.  Woodson seems to be a quality program.

It's great to see people sharing this information.  The lack of transparency in high school and AAU programs is such a challenge.    DS had friends who played JV last year and asked the varsity coach about the school's summer league plans.  Even though that coach was in the gym every afternoon coaching a small summer league squad made up of his favorite varsity players, he told those kids there was no summer league team -- no tryouts, not even "sorry but you're not good enough" to those JV kids, just a dumb, obvious lie so that coach could focus on his favorite kids.  Two of the excluded kids transferred and ended up starting for varsity at their new schools.  Meanwhile, coach didn't have enough kids for some summer league games and ended up forfeiting a bunch of games.[/quote]

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