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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously, height is important in basketball.  But on my son's private school team there are a surprising number of very skilled shorter kids on the team.  My son is a legit 6-2 (meaning he is about as tall as many basketball recruits in the DMV who claim they are 6-4), and he was taller than all but a few kids on the team last year.  Granted, he is not at PVI, but this is a real team.  All of these super-skilled little guys are serious AAU players, and most of them them do not play much on varsity, but they are on the varsity.  The local publics are loaded with shorter players (say 6-1 and under).  Many teams have no size at all, probably because almost all the bigs have been recruited to the private schools.    [/quote]

Isn't it much easier to make most private school basketball teams vs. public school teams? A 3000 student public high school has a lot more kids trying out than a 400 student private school. [/quote]

Not exactly.

Some will have small class sizes and bad varsity teams.

But MANY recruit like crazy.  So many have amazing teams that would destroy most public HS.  Sideell, Gonzaga, Bullis, SJC, Occinel, Macnamara, Blue Ridge, Paul6, Eoiscopal, etc….

Even though these school have small classes, they will pull out the best kids from Public school to play  their teams.

So if your kid is 14, 6’8 and plays on an EYBL team, they will be at Gonzaga, Bullis, Paul 6 etc.  no way they stay in public.[/quote]

Its hard to make the teams almost everywhere except small publics and no name/small privates. At big publics, they sre competing for 12 spots out of 1500 boys at the school. At the privates, all the spots are taken by recruits. Its amazing to me that people pay to send their kids to these private achools where their kids are shut out of all the sports teams.
More access to extracurriculars is supposed to be a strength of privates! [/quote]

This right here.  I know of a family sending their kid to a large private school that's a basketball powerhouse around here.  They have dreams of their kid playing for this powerhouse rather than their local HS, but I don't think they realize it will be nearly impossible to make that team if you're not recruited.  This may not be true about the freshman class, but certainly for varsity.[/quote]

My eighth grade daughter has a few players on her county team who are looking forward to playing for their WCAC school next year. She doesn't have the heart to tell them that girls on her AAU team have already been offered spots on the team.[/quote]

Ppa premier or Potomac valley? [/quote]

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