What is the Time Commitment for AAU Basketball?

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When playing AAU it is important to understand the amount of time, travel, and money associated with a program. Once a family has the information and has had time to analyze and discuss how much of an impact playing AAU basketball will have, a family decide if AAU is the best fit for a child and a family.

Practices (3 hours): For practice time, we are going to add 15 before practice to get ready and 15 minutes after practice for a cool down, time to change and walk to the car. So for the 90 minute practices, we will be adding 30 minutes. We will also be adding 60 minutes of travel time to and from the gym, 30 minutes each way.

Local Tournaments (9.5 hours 3 games / 2 days): Weekend tournaments typically are Saturday (2 games) and Sunday (1 game). Bracket winners will play the championship game later in the afternoon on Sunday. For the weekend tournaments, we are going to allow 45 minutes for travel to the game and 15 minutes for getting to the gym and warm-up time. For a total time of an hour before the game. After the game we will also add an hour for travel. (Obviously different venues will result in different travel time. We will use two hours of travel time for each game.)

Example: One weekend 9.5 hours

  • Saturday (6.5 hours 11:00 – 5:30) 1st Game 12:00 game (end time 1:00) 2nd game 3:30 (end time 4:30) 4.5 hours 2 hours travel time.
  • Sunday (3 hours 11:00 – 2:00) 1st Game 12:00 game (end time 1:00)

September Time = 21.5 hours

Week #1 September 12th – 18th: Tuesday & Wednesday. 2 practices (6 hours) no games.

Week #2 September 19th – 25th (15.5 hours): Tuesday & Wednesday. 2 practices (6 hours) Saturday & Sunday Local Tournament (9.5 hours) 3 games / 2 days

Week #1 September 12th: 2 practices (6 hours) no games

Week #3 September 26th – October 2nd: (September 6 hours / October 9.5 hours)

August Time = 6 hours

August 1st: 1st tryout (3 hours)

August 8th 2nd tryout (3 hours)