Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American Select allowing parents coaches. Skip it

And there seem to more politics and back room deals with AS. My kid has done both, AS made some terrible roster mistakes with cuts and roster assignments. With AA, there were only a few head scratchers, but they got it mostly right. Do AA if you can, but AS is still a great experience if your kid gets on.

i don't see coaches names for the DC area, are they listed elsewhere?

Names are on the website.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American Select allowing parents coaches. Skip it

And there seem to more politics and back room deals with AS. My kid has done both, AS made some terrible roster mistakes with cuts and roster assignments. With AA, there were only a few head scratchers, but they got it mostly right. Do AA if you can, but AS is still a great experience if your kid gets on.

i don't see coaches names for the DC area, are they listed elsewhere?

Anonymous wrote:American Select allowing parents coaches. Skip it

And there seem to more politics and back room deals with AS. My kid has done both, AS made some terrible roster mistakes with cuts and roster assignments. With AA, there were only a few head scratchers, but they got it mostly right. Do AA if you can, but AS is still a great experience if your kid gets on.

Anonymous wrote:AA is better, smaller, just as many coaches, cheaper and your player has a better chance of standing out there because it’s not such a huge venue with multiple teams from the same state! Do AA Skip AS. Mom of 3 D1 lax players advice.

100%

American Select allowing parents coaches. Skip it

It looks like the AA and AS tryouts for DC are within days/ a week of each other this time.

Anonymous wrote:AA is better, smaller, just as many coaches, cheaper and your player has a better chance of standing out there because it’s not such a huge venue with multiple teams from the same state! Do AA Skip AS. Mom of 3 D1 lax players advice.

Agreed.

AA is better, smaller, just as many coaches, cheaper and your player has a better chance of standing out there because it’s not such a huge venue with multiple teams from the same state! Do AA Skip AS. Mom of 3 D1 lax players advice.

Anonymous wrote:so do most kids try out for both?

Not typically, because the tryouts aren’t at the same time and you have to accept and pay for AS before AA tryouts even occur. You might tryout for AS and if you don’t make tryout for AA. But if you don’t make AS, there is a good chance you won’t make AA either. AA also has some girls from Maryland teams that tryout

so do most kids try out for both?

The competition for these teams is fierce. My recommendation is do the team your DD makes.

If your DD makes AA this year, think about doing AS next year.

Anonymous wrote:I know this has been discussed a lot already, but bringing it up again. Is one better than the other? Which option are most people signing up for?

DD has not done AS, but has done AA 2x. Here are some of the benefits we've observed:

Local
Less Expensive
Has banquet and option to go to senior game if that's something your DD would like
One team per region (AS often has quite a few more than that in certain regions)
Fun uniforms
Goes through junior year and then has senior games (AS ends after sophomore year). Becomes invite only junior year and it looks as though participation helps a bit with being selected to team junior year. Less so with senior games where only a handful are invited.
Good college coach presence recruiting year (my understanding is coaches usually go to AA one day and AS the next)

All that said, I will acknowledge that for some regions the team strength is lower. Baltimore team is always stacked as many players choose to stay local after a long club season, Philly and Long Island teams are usually strong, NJ and DC are usually pretty good as well.

AA
Advantage:
no B teams so that helps in making more exclusive

Less regions overall

The AA Senior game is a big deal and it helps to have AA under your belt

Disadvantage:
Outside of LI & MD, the competition is really poor with some regions really struggling due to AS being the top option


AS imo better with social media, tied to hip with BIC which leads to more opportunities.

Anonymous wrote:I know this has been discussed a lot already, but bringing it up again. Is one better than the other? Which option are most people signing up for?

Just one person's opinion. American Select is a better tournament but for DC area locals the New Balance AA is far less expensive. Both are good, but just feel like AS is a better experience. To each their own.

I know this has been discussed a lot already, but bringing it up again. Is one better than the other? Which option are most people signing up for?