If high school sports teams are so hard to join here, how do people become multi sport athletes?
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Anonymous
| If you have to play since 5 to make the lacrosse team, for example, how on earth do people make the basketball or wrestling teams too? |
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Some positions in some sports have highly transferable skills. Like football backs and receivers or tight ends as compared to linemen. Mostly speed and footwork. Linemen are too slow for most other sports.
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Anonymous
| Not a lot do it, but the best one do. Football and basketball and baseball. Football and lacrosse. |
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Some people are just naturally really athletic and strong, with really good hand eye coordination. That will get you far in several sports. Wrestling is no cut at all lot of schools. Plenty of kids pick that up in high school.
Doesn’t mean they win but they can be on the team. |
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It's really hard.
It's even with that recent thread about juggling academics and athletics. I came to that realization a little while ago. Where to get good at something and to keep getting good at it, takes a lot of time and effort for a lot of people. So I give a lot of respect to student athletes. Those who perform well academically and athletically because see what kind of work it involves to be good at both. Then with the multiple sports, as others mentioned some sports and seasons go together better then others. And some people believe that it's good to take a break with some sports to prevent overuse injuries. In some cases, people might be doing the other sports as offtime, just for fun or leisure. But for most people it takes a lot of work to be good at multiple sports. There are some who are just naturally good at them. But for one of my kids, I see the dropoff they have when they return to a sport after a couple of seasons off and the amount of time it takes them to get back to form. And unfortunately with how competitive things are, they're sometimes not afforded that period of warming back up unless it's a coach and team who already know them. I think it was around that point where we had to decide to start dropping activities and choosing what activities to focus on. I do think that they still had some advantages from playing multiple sports when they were younger and becoming more well rounded athletically though. At the very least, they got to find what they enjoyed. btw some linemen have a really quick first step and dash times. I remember seeing this huge guy, who looked overweight and had issues in other areas of fitness, keep up with if not pass a lot of smaller people in dashes. And someone explained it was because he was a lineman in football and they needed to have that quick burst of speed for the first several yards or so. |
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Shot put and discus. Heavyweight wrestling |
Anonymous
| Some sports are no cut and if youre athletic and enjoy sports you just hop on whatever you can. Football is usually no cut or takes minimum skill to make thr team. So if youre already a good soccer player maybe you play football in the fall and run track in the winter. |
Anonymous
I guess you live in VA...because in the rest of the country, soccer is a Fall sport like football. |
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It is for boys. For girls it's spring. Which is annoying because at our relatively small private school that means any spring girls' sport has a lot fewer solid athletes available than if girls' soccer was in fall. |
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This is the answer. |
Anonymous
| the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports. |
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Very good athlete + finding sports that either complement each other from a skills perspective, and/or one or more is a sport that you can pick up when you are older. If you go to a very small school, that helps too, because while you might not be the top player on all three teams, they need numbers. DS is an excellent athlete and plays baseball essentially year-round with his club team and then school team in the spring, but he also plays fall soccer and runs winter track at his school. He's a sophomore so we may be nearing the end of his ability to do three seasons and balance that with academics, but so far it's been manageable.
I also think girls have a better shot at playing all three seasons' worth of sports because, even today, far fewer girls are strong in multiple sports, so it's a numbers issue. A friend's daughter is at a large MCPS school, and they frequently have to beg girls to join various teams. Her JV basketball team barely had enough girls to play; most of the girls on the field hockey team had never played before. |
Anonymous
If you want to be so arrogant, what’s a true athlete? Plenty of serious athletes who played sports from a young age don’t even make one JV high school team |
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Wresting and football are no cut sports even at our competitive HS. Anyone can be on the team. They might not play in the games but they can be on the football team.
As others said, there are very athletic kids who can make the more selective teams. But also as many of us have explained before, for the rest of the kids, the HS team is not the the thing that matters. I have one very athletic kid and one that is more average. Being on the HS powerhouse team isn’t even fun for an average kid who got the last spot and rides the bench or didn’t even make the team. This is why so many play club, travel or rec in HS instead of for the school. Don’t be sad for these kids. The experiences outside of the HS is usually 1000% better. |
Anonymous
NP, but there is nothing arrogant about what PP said. There are true athletes just like there are true geniuses. It’s not disrespectful to acknowledge this - it’s just reality. |