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Basketball

ProfessorGAC

(72,297 posts)

3. Girls' B-Ball Is Hot Here

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Sun Dec 22, 2024, 04:13 PM

Dec 2024

NE Illinois.
I've been subbing in HS & JH for 6 years now.
The girls' game was something my whole time, but I've seen an uptick in both interest & pride the last couple years.
And, in a few towns around here, they have organized school teams for 4th & 5th grade.
So, the players have a couple years under their belt before 6th grade.
The middle school right by my house has about 110 kids per grade. So, call it 55 girls.
The 6th grade team had 26 they out for 12 spots. Don't know about the other 2 grades. I was talking to the 6th grade coach, so that's how I found out.
I see picture of girls' games in the weekly newspapers in the towns around here.
I think that's pretty cool.

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Caitlin Clark effect hasn't reversed the decades-long decline in girls basketball participation [View all] RandySF Dec 2024 OP

What about the time lag? The CC-AR effect took place in 23-24. spooky3 Dec 2024 #1

Some more detail. RandySF Dec 2024 #2

Girls' B-Ball Is Hot Here ProfessorGAC Dec 2024 #3

It's also very big Jilly_in_VA Dec 2024 #4