Congrats to OT 17 Aaron for capturing the AAU 17 Open gold medal after defeating Top Select 17 Elite in the final. The four days of action saw many impressive standout individual efforts as players went all-out in hopes of ending the tournament on top. Below, we present vballrecruiter.com’s 17 Open All-Tournament Team.

This is not to be confused with the honors awarded by AAU itself at the conclusion of the championship match. These picks are made from our observations and our observations alone.

It would be easy to add more to each position or even include honorable mentions, but that’s something we do at the end of the year with our Club All-Americans. As for the All-Tournament Team selections, they are meant to be limited and difficult to make given all the talented players.

To narrow the selections, we honored players from teams which made the gold bracket. We want to keep a team element to the award and making the gold bracket is a strong indicator of team success. The process does leave amazing players off, even some of the best in the field. But if we were to pick solely based on talent, we could pick the team ahead of time as we know in advance who many of the talented players are competing.