When he was teenager, Irving played for the Road Runners of the amateur athletic union which is aau. in high school Kyrie Irving played for Montclair kimberly academy his freshman and sophomore years in high school. He averaged 26.5 points, 10.3 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 3.6 steals and became only the school's 2nd 1,000 point scorer. In his sophomore year, he led and helped MKA to its first New Jersey Prep B state title. After that year, he moved to st.patrick high school because he felt like he needed a bigger challenge. He had to sit out the first 30 games of St. Patrick's season because of the transfer. While at St. Patrick, Irving played with michael kid-gilchrist, who was ranked as one of the best players in the class of 2011. In his first season at St. Patrick, Irving averaged 17.0 ppg., 5.0 rpg., 6.0 apg. and 2.0 spg. He also led his team to their third new jersey tournament of champions title in four years. In August 2009, he played in the nike global challenge in which he led the USA East to the tournament title. He was the MVP with 21.3 ppg. and 4.3 apg The year after , St. Patrick was banned from the state tournament for holding practice because of the permitted start of the winter sports season. But besides being banned from the state tournament, St. Patrick went 24-3 and won the Union County Tournament championship. Kyrie finished his senior year with 24.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg. and 7.0 apg. In his two years at St. Patrick, got letters twice . On January 19, 2010, Irving was selected to the 2010 Junior National Select Team. The team played at the 2010 nike hoop summit at the rose garden in Portland, Oregon. on April 10 He was also selected to play in the 2010 mcdonald's all-american game and the 2010 jordan brand classic, where he was named as second MVP with harrison barnes. In June 2010 Irving was a part of the United States gold medal winning team at the fiba americ's under -18 championship. Irving was the #2 player in the class of 2010 by scout.com,#3 player in the espnu 100, and rated as the #4 player by rivals.com. In addition, he was ranked #1 among point guards by ESPNU in 2010.