Anonymous
Post 11/10/2024 06:10     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Its OK if he missed the green days. Kids doing fall sports don't participate either.

If he is a strong player with travel/AAU experience he should have no problem making the freshman team.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2024 18:46     Subject: FCPS Basketball
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Anonymous wrote:There was no fall league advertised at Chantilly High School. DS wants to try out for the freshman team. If he is not known to the coaches will this count against him?


They would have advertised the freshman fall league as they aren't allowed to make cuts off season. Make sure you are signed up for alerts. So he hasn't gone to any off season practices?


We did not know about any green days or fall league. I actively looked at the Chantilly Chargers site and nothing was mentioned. Is the fall league/green day word of mouth?


Yes. Was there an "interest meeting" in the fall that he may have missed? Usually they would get names and emails and you would be on the email list.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2024 17:34     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There was no fall league advertised at Chantilly High School. DS wants to try out for the freshman team. If he is not known to the coaches will this count against him?


They would have advertised the freshman fall league as they aren't allowed to make cuts off season. Make sure you are signed up for alerts. So he hasn't gone to any off season practices?


We did not know about any green days or fall league. I actively looked at the Chantilly Chargers site and nothing was mentioned. Is the fall league/green day word of mouth?
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2024 22:56     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:There was no fall league advertised at Chantilly High School. DS wants to try out for the freshman team. If he is not known to the coaches will this count against him?


They would have advertised the freshman fall league as they aren't allowed to make cuts off season. Make sure you are signed up for alerts. So he hasn't gone to any off season practices?
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2024 11:57     Subject: FCPS Basketball
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Anonymous wrote:Its incredibly easy to make the girls freshman teams.


That being said, making it from freshman to JV as a sophomore is not easy


Why is that? Who then makes the JV teams?


JV is good freshman plus sophomores and juniors who can't make varsity. There are not enough spaces for every girl who ages off the freshman team
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2024 11:53     Subject: FCPS Basketball
There was no fall league advertised at Chantilly High School. DS wants to try out for the freshman team. If he is not known to the coaches will this count against him?
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 12:43     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Its incredibly easy to make the girls freshman teams.


That being said, making it from freshman to JV as a sophomore is not easy


Why is that? Who then makes the JV teams?
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 10:21     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Its incredibly easy to make the girls freshman teams.


That being said, making it from freshman to JV as a sophomore is not easy
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2024 10:19     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Its incredibly easy to make the girls freshman teams.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 15:16     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Most, if not all, FCPS schools have a girls freshman team, from my experience.
Anonymous
Post 10/24/2024 13:58     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Any experience on the girls side for freshman? Do all schools field a freshman team?
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2024 17:50     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:How do tryouts work at your FCPS HS? Teams must be pre set.


They are not preset, if an amazing player shows up at tryouts, he will make the team.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2024 12:48     Subject: FCPS Basketball
How do tryouts work at your FCPS HS? Teams must be pre set.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 10:14     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Some FCPS HS fall league teams are a combination of 9th and 10th graders - even at the biggest schools, a lot of kids are off doing football and can't do fall league.

So a kid standing out as a 10th grader doesn't necessarily mean that much. The strongest players on our school's fall league team were bench freshman team players last year who are all going to be fighting for bench spots on the JV team.
Anonymous
Post 10/15/2024 10:12     Subject: FCPS Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:I only know boys side. Girls side is much easier to make the teams.

Tryouts are only important for the kids who haven't been participating in fall program.

The coaches already know FTMP who from fall workouts/league they are cutting and who is going onto 9th, JV and Varsity. There may be a little uncertainty as to who will get the last few spots on the JV bench and who from the rising freshman group will just be cut altogether from the program.

There aren't usually any complete unknowns who show up and dazzle, even at the 3000 kid high schools.


I thought the freshman team moved up and became the JV team, and the JV players moved up to Varsity ????


Some Varsity and JV are staying on from the previous year, so there aren’t enough spots for everyone to move up.


Is two years on JV a negative? It doesn't look like my son is moving up based on fall league placements. He's a sophomore.

So he was a freshman on JV last year and he's playing on the JV fall league team now as a sophomore?

Yes. He was disappointed by the fall league placement and does not expect it to change for tryouts/the season. He carries the JV fall league (scores more than 25pts/game)


Wouldn't he rather be the star of the JV team and improve by getting significant play time rather than sit on the Varsity bench? He might play the same position as 3-4 returning Varsity seniors.
The coach probably needs to find spots for a lot of seniors/juniors and if he is scoring that many points in the fall league, it sounds like the JV group might be very weak.