We are in the DC metro area and basketball is just insane...I thought the girls basketball families were over the top until my son made varsity on his national top 10 boys team. It was fun for us because he had no college aspirations but it was a huge pressure cooker with crazy intensity from a lot of parents. All but one of his teammates played college, most going D1 to schools like Miami, Harvard, Pitt and Illinois. My daughter's teams included VA Tech, UConn, Columbia, UNC, Michigan, Georgetown and her at Northerwestern (NU not NW 😂). They finished #2 nationally. Coolest thing about my daughters teams is that all but three of the over 25 girls who played after college graduated from their original school.
Final funny story. Ed Orgeron was at my kids' HS (in DC) recruiting football players for LSU and took my son's name down after passing him in the hall based on body type alone. So yeah, there is a lot of ridiculous ness in college recruiting in all sports.