It really depends on the high school. My daughter made her JV/Varsity MCPS teams but doesn't play very much.

If she attended a different MCPS high school, she would have started.

There are 26 MCPS high schools. The top 8-9 or are a much better than the next tier, and bottom tier are the teams that look like some of their players have hardly played before.

Anonymous wrote:FCPS Varsity is competitive for most of the HS. Basketball teams are small and many show up for roster spots at tryouts. You need to have played AAU or be absurdly tall to make it. BB is technical and very few have the proper training.

Also for the poster above saying Private is the only way....not true. Go be a leader at your Public court. Maybe y'll get recruited.

What is absurdly tall for a girl in this context?

FCPS Varsity is competitive for most of the HS. Basketball teams are small and many show up for roster spots at tryouts. You need to have played AAU or be absurdly tall to make it. BB is technical and very few have the proper training.

Also for the poster above saying Private is the only way....not true. Go be a leader at your Public court. Maybe y'll get recruited.

Girls basketball is too much of a contact sport for many girl athletes, also a fairly complicated sport to be good at. Participation rates have been dropping now that girls have more options like volleyball and tiktok. In my area only privates in NEPSAC have good teams, most public schools have maybe one good player if any.
My daughters are good AAU players just about to enter HS years and it feels like winter will be wasted if we stay playing for our public school, but our income is too big to get any decent aid from NEPSAC and not sure I am ready to board them yet. Supposedly NEPSAC gives a full ride to two or so top players, but not sure if my kids would be the top two in schools we like.

How tough is it to make BCC's girls basketball teams (JV / Varsity)?

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I find it hard to believe that kids who played AAU aren't making JV. JV teams around here aren't that good.

It depends on which school and which AAU team. There are some huge high schools where so many kids are going out for basketball that a lot of them will have to be cut. And there are some shockingly bad AAU teams that will take anyone with a pulse as long as their parents pay for them.

Sorry, I find it hard to believe that kids who played AAU aren't making JV. JV teams around here aren't that good.

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Anonymous wrote:My HS son says girls who are tall and good athletes prefer Volleyball. Its seen as more "cute" and is no contact, so they can still feel girly while they play, put bows in their hair, and wear super short shorts. Take that FWIW, but at our large FCPS girls basketball is no-cut but 100+ boys try out for basketballj and as pp mentioned, they do cut AAU players even from JV.

Which school?

Generally true in all the large middle class and UMC fcps HS.

Anonymous wrote:Its a million times easier to make any of the girls teams compared to the boys for basketball--at our very large public in FCPS. Its no-cut, which is absurd compared to the boys side, which cuts AAU players from JV.

Which school?