OP- DD is in a private school. Her travel/ AAU teammates all made either JV or varsity in FCHS. Her travel team was in Division 1 though.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is she so anxious to get on varsity as a freshman? There is time for that in the future.

If you're are high level player as freshman, you don't want to be playing on freshman team as most kids will be like rec level.

This depends on the school. As some others already said, the girls freshman team will be hard to make at some schools and filled with AAU players. My daughter played on an AAU team and stopped basketball completely in middle school for other sports. She knew her HS chances were slim and if she made any team, it would be even harder to get playing time. Her other concern was barely making a team and never seeing a minute in a game. Basketball is tough.

Soccer is the only sport that usually is even harder to make numbers wise then basketball.

My daughter heard there are 50 freshman trying out for basketball. She didn’t know the numbers for the other grades.

Seems soccer also has high numbers (and the soccer is not good soccer).

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Anonymous wrote:Side topic: how many boys typically try out for freshman and JV basketball at a big FCPS HS?

At our dc's large school last year, 124 tried out combined for all three teams. I don't know the breakdown. They take 12 per team, so the math is pretty brutal.

36/124. dang.

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Kids on high school fall teams aren't allowed to do the basketball green days or fall leagues.

So it wasn't a high school sport.

Where do you see this? It may be a school-by-school rule, but I am not aware this is an FCPS/VHSL rule.

My son's coach told him it was a VHSL rule--hence kids on the football and cross country teams could not play on the basketball fall league teams.

I don't believe this to be a VHSL rule.

Anonymous wrote:Side topic: how many boys typically try out for freshman and JV basketball at a big FCPS HS?

At our dc's large school last year, 124 tried out combined for all three teams. I don't know the breakdown. They take 12 per team, so the math is pretty brutal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Kids on high school fall teams aren't allowed to do the basketball green days or fall leagues.

So it wasn't a high school sport.

Where do you see this? It may be a school-by-school rule, but I am not aware this is an FCPS/VHSL rule.

My son's coach told him it was a VHSL rule--hence kids on the football and cross country teams could not play on the basketball fall league teams.

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Anonymous wrote:

Kids on high school fall teams aren't allowed to do the basketball green days or fall leagues.

So it wasn't a high school sport.

Where do you see this? It may be a school-by-school rule, but I am not aware this is an FCPS/VHSL rule.

What school doesn't let you participate in green days if you do another sport?

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Kids on high school fall teams aren't allowed to do the basketball green days or fall leagues.

So it wasn't a high school sport.

Where do you see this? It may be a school-by-school rule, but I am not aware this is an FCPS/VHSL rule.

Side topic: how many boys typically try out for freshman and JV basketball at a big FCPS HS?

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Anonymous wrote:At many schools in the boys side it is tough to even make the freshman team.

OP, when she did fall league and green days, was she grouped with the older group or younger group?

She had a fall sport so only went sporadically.

Unless that fall sport is an AAU team that the varsity coach recognizes and is impressed by, it isn't an excuse if she wants to make varsity

Was it a high school fall sport?

Kids on high school fall teams aren't allowed to do the basketball green days or fall leagues.

So it wasn't a high school sport.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At many schools in the boys side it is tough to even make the freshman team.

OP, when she did fall league and green days, was she grouped with the older group or younger group?

She had a fall sport so only went sporadically.

Unless that fall sport is an AAU team that the varsity coach recognizes and is impressed by, it isn't an excuse if she wants to make varsity

Was it a high school fall sport?

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Anonymous wrote:At many schools in the boys side it is tough to even make the freshman team.

OP, when she did fall league and green days, was she grouped with the older group or younger group?

She had a fall sport so only went sporadically.

Unless that fall sport is an AAU team that the varsity coach recognizes and is impressed by, it isn't an excuse if she wants to make varsity

Anonymous wrote:Why is she so anxious to get on varsity as a freshman? There is time for that in the future.

If you're are high level player as freshman, you don't want to be playing on freshman team as most kids will be like rec level.