Nah, I was very average, but tall enough that I'd have made most all 3A teams. Just Timpview was

May 25, 2022
9:11:08am

BeyondTheMark All-American

really stacked and the development in the valley via youth basketball was way ahead of its time so Provo area, for whatever reason (to be honest mostly work by the HS coaches,) tended to overrepresent in HS basketball in the 80s.

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How many of you were cut off a very good team in HS?

BeyondTheMark All-American

5/25/22 9:03am

I was cut from Vincent-St. Mary High School in 1999 by some up and coming Freshman. It

Baron

5/25/22 9:05am

RE: How many of you were cut off a very good team in HS?

Chefcurry

5/25/22 9:05am

Nah, I was very average, but tall enough that I'd have made most all 3A teams. Just Timpview was

BeyondTheMark

5/25/22 9:11am

I think we need more opportunities for kids like that to play organized sports.

BYUtka

5/25/22 9:06am

Doesn't basically every city offer leagues?

Charles Darwin

5/25/22 9:09am

Exactly...my 14 year old boy went and watched a high school rec baseball game

BYUheaven

5/25/22 9:17am

Growing up, AF had really amazing youth leagues in baseball, basketball, and

BigD Coug

5/25/22 9:27am

I played church ball and scout tournaments- hit a game winning 3 ptr

BeyondTheMark

5/25/22 9:25am

In my area once they hit 9th grade it is far less organized and unless you can

BYUtka

5/25/22 9:33am

I was cut from Murray High in the mid-late 90s. I know very well that if I would have made the team

Jimo Dashen

5/25/22 9:09am

I was cut from Alta’s basketball team years ago. There were 80 boys trying out. I made it to the final 20.

Cougar-Duck

5/25/22 9:09am

I was cut off of a very bad Jr. Varsity Basketball team. Don't feel bad for me.

BYU71

5/25/22 9:11am

I almost transferred to Manti HS my senior year - our coach reached out

BigD Coug

5/25/22 9:14am

I was cut jr year from a team that only won 2 games my senior year.

Joe Banks

5/25/22 9:18am

I was

downtownchrisbrown

5/25/22 9:21am

I was also the last one cut from the Junior (Grade 9/10) basketball team

downtownchrisbrown

5/25/22 9:23am

I saw this happen to my wife's nephew

CaliWG

5/25/22 9:24am

I was cut out of the priest's quorum presidency by some younger priests that were more righteous. was devastating

Bob Vance

5/25/22 9:42am

Thankfully no - that state championship was a good time my senior year.

Taccoug

5/25/22 10:02am

RE: How many of you were cut off a very good team in HS?

HiLife

5/25/22 10:07am

No but we lost our state championship and it was brutal.

breakingblue

5/25/22 11:20am

If i knew there was a high chance of getting cut i wouldn't try out

buckeyecougarguy

5/25/22 12:08pm

I was cut from my church ball team

MisterFundamentals

5/25/22 12:15pm

At Kahuku they started taking everyone who tried out for Football. Used to be

ImuaKahuku

5/25/22 12:24pm

Timpview was 3A? How long ago was this?

Zoobieman

5/25/22 12:48pm

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