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By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:25:10 +0000

Alison –
Forgive my question, but why do you care what other parents think? It sounds like your son is happy playing all the sports he does. Let him continue to play all that he can and still earn good grades. If you want him to be recruited, get a realistic evaluation of what sport or sports he’s more likely to be recruited for. A number of NCSA ex-college athletes who are now recruiting coaches were multi-sport athletes in high school. They can guide your son better than anyone.

By: Alison

Alison — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:44:09 +0000

My son plays basketball, football, soccer, and baseball. He would also like to run track. Needless to say he is a very fast runner. He has been discouraged to play 4 sports not 3. He is at a small high school so they understand. He continues start on all varsity teams since his freshman year. My problem now is that he is going to be a junior and he still does not want to specialize in one sport. As his mother I want to plan a summer that suits him. It is a balacing act that will be a fulltime job for me. I am now starting to get some parents whose children only play one sport upset with my son and me. They want him to pick a sport. The coaches love him and want him to put their sport first. I want my son happy, Where can I get help with this type of problem? I do not want people to dislike my child for his ability. I also don’t want to listen to the main stream. I would like to find a multisport advocate to guide us.

By: Noel

Noel — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:11:03 +0000

Well, I’m a 3 sport athlete! I honestly, don’t know how I would have made it thus far in High School without it. I play volleyball during Summer and Fall which helps me stay in shape for basketball which I go straight into after Volleyball, basketball required a lot of runing so it isn’t too awful hard for me to get in shape really quit, then as soon as basketball is over, I literlity mean soon as, the next week I go straight into softball which is my main sport, the one I’m hoping to go to college and play. Well, my team has usually always got 3 weeks of pratice on me so playing basketball I’m done in shape and ready to get out on the field and start that them i repet this for another year =)!

By: John

John — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:23:12 +0000

My son and daughter played basketball, Soccer and baseball year round. And I think they have a tendency to burn out more than one sport. They played competitively every summer, spring break and every holiday. My son did not have a summer vacation or spring break for over 8-9 years due to him entering AAU basketball tournaments and playing summer baseball and summer tournaments. Same with my daughter who did USYSA state, regionals and ODP. High school schedule is fine, it is the club play that will put a stop to multi sport athlete and force the child to choose (getting younger and younger). On the flipside, I think it is also unfair to HS students who have to sit on the side when a good athlete who does not practice off season to come in and play because he is athletic, but does not understand the game totally and gets playing time over more polished less athletic kids. A team that has multisport athletes do well but never do well enough to reward the all year round athlete, because they are not as sharp as all year round athletes and they hurt the team in critical and close games.

By: Aime Hoffman

Aime Hoffman — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:09:11 +0000

We have talked to several college coaches in Indiana and Ohio about our daughter playing 3 sports (volleyball, basketball, track, and club volleyball) and all of them liked to hear it. They indicated that the different sports made her more athletic and less prone to injury. Coming from a small school if a student didn’t play more than one sport the school’s team would be hurting. She will now be playing college volleyball (her dream) and running track. Plus, thank you Charlie Adams for the advice about the smaller/private (NAIA, D3 and D2 colleges.