Quote Originally Posted by call_me_ishmael View Post
Bretsky at what age did your son start taking it seriously and practicing, etc? You guys seem pretty into the scene from your FB. My 8 year old cannot even hit the rim to save his life. I gotta figure out how to get this dude playing and caring about it. The weirdest part is my wife is actually a pretty good athlete, but I am definitely not.

We live in Pewaukee so the town is all abuzz about the team again. I kinda hope we lose our mojo so normal kids have a shot at playing on the team. I'd rather our kids get to participate and they stink then nobody getting o participate unless they're super hardcore about it. I am so jaded on youth sports as we've covered in the past.

Good luck to your son. that is super exciting?

My son kinda like hoops growing up; but in terms of taking it seriously, I would say it was about Grade 3 when he started playing in every opportunity we could find. We saw plenty of tournamens at the Center Court Complex in Waukesah. By grade 4 he was travelling and playing summmer call in the AAU format as well. By grade 5/6 he was going to places like Minneapolis/Indy/Chicao/Iowa for tournaments. It's a crazy AAU circuit out there. Tonight he has his HS practice, and after he summer AAU team has their first pracice