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Hi Justdey, I am the mother of a 2020 grad 8th grader who will be 13 until next August. I live in the Atlanta Area where things are a bit more clear, but I also went to high school and College in Eastern PA, so maybe I can help.

 

I assume when you say there are "certain classifications that get more recognition" you are referring to High School things that look like 4A, or 6A, is that right? Those mean how large is the school.  A 6A school may have 2500 kids, whereas a 4A school may have only 1000.  The 6A schools may get looked at more for simply having a wider selection of kids to choose from.

 

This is an ongoing debate and may be different for YOUR area, but in my area it appears 90%+ High School kids that get recruited for college are recruited based on their travel team performance as well as attending showcases and college camps.  It's rare you hear about a kid getting recruited because of someone seeing him only in a high school game.

 

Pennsylvania is funky, it really should be two states, the Philly East side and the Pittsburgh West side, so that is what baseball seems to have done there. For example you have the Bucks County Brushbacks and they claim to be in the PAE (i.e. Pennsylvania East). Or you have the Pittsburgh Outlaws Black, and they claim to be in the PAW (i.e. Pennsylvania West).

 

You can check previous brackets for USSSA games as well as Triple Crown and any other organizations that are popular up there for local teams that played in those tourneys.  Here are a couple of links to tourneys that were kind of played near you.

 

https://www.triplecrownsports....9&divisionid=282

 

https://www.triplecrownsports....8&divisionid=282

 

Also, if you do decide to seek some off season coaching I betcha they know the local travel teams!

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