If high school sports teams are so hard to join here, how do people become multi sport athletes?

[Anonymous]

Both my kids were 3 sport varsity athletes in HS. They had a primary sport (that they were recruited/played in college). Honestly they had some natural athleticism that we encouraged by having them try many sports when they were younger. They gravitated toward their main one, but always enjoyed playing other ones even if they didn't start/weren't the star. Both are out of college and play in a couple of adult leagues. Not sure what my point is, but I just think some kids have an inclination to play sports and are naturally athletic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both my kids were 3 sport varsity athletes in HS. They had a primary sport (that they were recruited/played in college). Honestly they had some natural athleticism that we encouraged by having them try many sports when they were younger. They gravitated toward their main one, but always enjoyed playing other ones even if they didn't start/weren't the star. Both are out of college and play in a couple of adult leagues. Not sure what my point is, but I just think some kids have an inclination to play sports and are naturally athletic.

Duh

[Anonymous]

How practice time is used also plays into this. Have watched plenty of youth practices and sports events. Some young athletes max out their practice time to get better. Some are not using that time as effectively.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports.

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

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.

Sucks to be neither

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports.

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

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.

Sucks to be neither

Come one. To be born healthy, into one of the wealthiest counties of the wealthiest country in the world is doing pretty good. The world isn't over if a kid isn't a star athlete or top student. They still have more opportunity than the vast majority of the world. Comparison is the thief of joy and all that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports.

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

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.

Sucks to be neither

Come one. To be born healthy, into one of the wealthiest counties of the wealthiest country in the world is doing pretty good. The world isn't over if a kid isn't a star athlete or top student. They still have more opportunity than the vast majority of the world. Comparison is the thief of joy and all that.

That’s a ridiculous thing to say when America has the least happiest people out of any country

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports.

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

A true athlete is the one who makes the JV team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both my kids were 3 sport varsity athletes in HS. They had a primary sport (that they were recruited/played in college). Honestly they had some natural athleticism that we encouraged by having them try many sports when they were younger. They gravitated toward their main one, but always enjoyed playing other ones even if they didn't start/weren't the star. Both are out of college and play in a couple of adult leagues. Not sure what my point is, but I just think some kids have an inclination to play sports and are naturally athletic.

your point is that you want to brag about having athletic kids

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:the true athletes have no issues being good at 2-3 sports.

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

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.

Sucks to be neither

Come one. To be born healthy, into one of the wealthiest counties of the wealthiest country in the world is doing pretty good. The world isn't over if a kid isn't a star athlete or top student. They still have more opportunity than the vast majority of the world. Comparison is the thief of joy and all that.

That’s a ridiculous thing to say when America has the least happiest people out of any country

That is a ridiculous thing to say when absolutely no one reading this forum would trade places with the person on this planet with the 50th percentile "best" quality of life. Your 'America bad' schtick is laughable.