The ASFL Challenge is a talent-based event.
Players are scouted continuously through the high school and AAU basketball seasons. If you would like to recommend a player for consideration, please email us at: [email protected]! On this page you will find the guidelines that govern the selection process.
ASFL Eligibility
The A Shot For Life Challenge is a marquee basketball shooting event. To be eligible to compete in the A Shot For Life Challenge a player must be 19 or under and they must be in high school. Seniors who are going to college in the fall are eligible. Players are chosen based on their shooting ability that was demonstrated during the previous high school and AAU seasons. The winner of the A Shot For Life Challenge is named the best shooter in the state where the ASFL Challenge is held.
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Players in our A Shot For Life family have gone on to play at top NCAA programs such as Villanova, Wichita State, and Kentucky. They have also gone on to play professionally all over the world. |
The ASFL Challenge is our most prestigious basketball event as we select 16 players out of the thousands that play high school basketball in a given state. To be selected there is a scouting process and an interview process. |
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The A Shot For Life Challenge is a two hour shooting contest meant to test the ability, endurance, and mental focus of all of the participants. The player with the highest shooting percentage at the end of the two hours is the winner. The two hours are broken down as follows:
Being chosen for the A Shot For Life Challenge is based on a player’s shooting ability as well as their behavior on and off the floor. What school or what AAU program a player is involved with is not a factor in the selection process. |
What we look for:
We focus on picking juniors and seniors for the event. Sophomores are taken in rare instances and freshmen are never selected for the ASFL Challenge under any circumstances. We will always give a tie-breaker in the selection process to the older player. If after evaluation a junior and a senior are even, we will always take the senior knowing that the junior can be picked the following year.
While we certainly take cumulative and per game statistics into account, they do not decide the selection process. All of the players being monitored play in vastly different circumstances and they play against a very wide range of competition compared to each other. One player on the watch-list may score 29 PPG in a league with very little competition whereas another player may score 16 PPG in an extremely competitive league against the best players in the region. Every roster spot is selected on a case by case basis.
It is important to ASFL that our players represent themselves well off the floor. Our players are ambassadors of our organization and the character aspect of the selection process is equally as important as the talent-based aspect. We background check each of the players that get to the interview process by checking their social media, reaching out to their coaches, and talking to their teammates. We fully understand that we are monitoring and evaluating the behavior of teenagers when everybody is learning and mistakes are a part of the process of growing up. The red flags that would trigger a problem in the selection process are signs of significant irresponsibility, very poor judgment, or disrespect to coaches, teachers, and classmates.
While we certainly take cumulative and per game statistics into account, they do not decide the selection process. All of the players being monitored play in vastly different circumstances and they play against a very wide range of competition compared to each other. One player on the watch-list may score 29 PPG in a league with very little competition whereas another player may score 16 PPG in an extremely competitive league against the best players in the region. Every roster spot is selected on a case by case basis.
It is important to ASFL that our players represent themselves well off the floor. Our players are ambassadors of our organization and the character aspect of the selection process is equally as important as the talent-based aspect. We background check each of the players that get to the interview process by checking their social media, reaching out to their coaches, and talking to their teammates. We fully understand that we are monitoring and evaluating the behavior of teenagers when everybody is learning and mistakes are a part of the process of growing up. The red flags that would trigger a problem in the selection process are signs of significant irresponsibility, very poor judgment, or disrespect to coaches, teachers, and classmates.