Three sport High School Athletes any more?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did 3 seasons - XC, winter track, and spring track and I’m sure there are lots doing that combination! But that’s probably not the real question in this post.

I’m sure it depends on how competitive the school teams are and how great of an all around athlete the kid is. I think it is probably less common than when we were kids.

That is NOT considered 3 sports HS athlete. My definition of 3 sports athlete is: 1- you HAVE to be a starter on the team; 2- three completely different sports like Football in the Fall, basketball/hockey in the winter and baseball in spring; 3- the sport where there are cut to be made. In other words, the smaller the team, the better

And you make the rules because...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did 3 seasons - XC, winter track, and spring track and I’m sure there are lots doing that combination! But that’s probably not the real question in this post.

I’m sure it depends on how competitive the school teams are and how great of an all around athlete the kid is. I think it is probably less common than when we were kids.

That is NOT considered 3 sports HS athlete. My definition of 3 sports athlete is: 1- you HAVE to be a starter on the team; 2- three completely different sports like Football in the Fall, basketball/hockey in the winter and baseball in spring; 3- the sport where there are cut to be made. In other words, the smaller the team, the better

And you make the rules because...?

She’s right—the first PP basically just did year round running, so specialized in running to the exclusion of all else. That’s pretty much the opposite of what the OP was asking about.

[Anonymous]

One of my son's friends played golf in the fall, swam in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. I'm not sure if he played lacrosse at the club level. But he was good enough at lacrosse that he was a Washington Post All Met Honorable Mention player his senior year.

My son was a club swimmer in HS but not top tier at all - he was the kid who literally came in last place at most of his club swim meets. And he usually only made two, maybe three, club practices per week. He did it because he loved the sport and he wanted to be a competitive swimmer on his HS team. Anyways, he was a two sport athlete - he also played on the HS tennis team. He did not do a sport in the fall, but did do marching band, which was more of a time commitment than the HS swim team and HS tennis team.

[Anonymous]

I am the poster at 14:25. I thought of a couple of other kids I know who play 3 sports in HS. They are all friends of my son's. and the common denominator is club swim - these are kids he would swim with. They are all very competitive in HS but not super stars in club swimming, probably because they do other sports and only swim a couple of days a week as opposed to the super stars who swim 6 plus times a week.

A boy who plays football, swims and plays tennis. He comes from an athletic family (dad was a D1 football player and mom ran D1 cross country.) He used to do club swim but doesn't swim year round any more.

A girl who plays field hockey, swims and lacrosse. She still does club swim but I'm pretty sure she doesn't go every day. She's also from an athletic family - dad swam D1.

A girl who played field hockey, swam and ran track. She's in college now but really cut back on her club swim practices when she got into high school.

Yes, I think its very rare to find kids who do three sports in HS anymore. But there are some out there.

[Anonymous]

Currently have 2 kids in HS. One is a two team sport, starting varsity athlete and plays year round with primary sport travel team. Other kid did 2 team and 1 individual sport last year along with travel. This year dropped one of the team sports in order to focus on grades. There are other kids like this in our public HS, so not uncommon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question to anyone, is it easier to do certain HS sports with demanding club sports like soccer or volleyball? For example, is track or diving or x-country somehow "easier" because the practices don't conflict as much? Whereas if you wanted to do say club soccer and HS filed hockey both together in the Fall, that then would be impossible due to conflicts and not enough time/energy for both?

My child does XC and at our school the coach is willing to allow kids to do XC and a second sport concurrently with the agreement that XC is not always the losing sport and that meets and games are split evenly.

[Anonymous]

We had one child who was a 3 sport (two varsity, one JV) athlete in their freshman year and then dropped to 2 sports for soph/jr/sr year.

[Anonymous]

One question: does your DC get hassled for playing HS sports instead of club? I would think playing multiple HS sports and getting in the year book is still worth something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One question: does your DC get hassled for playing HS sports instead of club? I would think playing multiple HS sports and getting in the year book is still worth something.

That is an interesting question because with some sports the club teams are considered more elite/prestigious than making the HS team. It wasn't that way when I was growing up.

[Anonymous]

My son is a freshman and is set to do three sports this year (XC/Fall, Basketball/Winter, Baseball/Spring). XC and Baseball are fine; basketball is the sport that is giving a lot of 'push-back.' The basketball coach is not happy that my son is not available for weekly practices, scrimmages, etc. this fall due to conflicts with XC practices and meets. I think my kid will only be 'allowed' to do these 3 sports this year and then may only do the fall and spring sports as a sophomore to avoid the scheduling conflicts. He also plays club baseball, but at this point the team is stepping back to only do a handful of national showcases per year, with an eye to attracting attention from college scouts.

[Anonymous]

We have had similar issues with basketball - coach expects DC to be available for "fall league" and spring tournaments and "summer league." It's like the winter season doesn't even matter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had similar issues with basketball - coach expects DC to be available for "fall league" and spring tournaments and "summer league." It's like the winter season doesn't even matter

+1. In our experience, the other sports seem to be more OK about an 'off season' or allowing the child to try other activities. My DS's high school basketball coach wants year-round commitment, even though DS is not trying to play in college.

[Anonymous]

Thanks all. I didn't realize that HS sports penalized good athletes who chose more than 1 sport. Doing basketball all year can't be as healthy as mixing it up with 1 or 2 other sports. If your athlete is good.enough, I guess the coach can't really cut your child from basketball, but maybe just makes daily life more difficult when the team is in season and your child is behind. Any other HS sports besides basketball like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had similar issues with basketball - coach expects DC to be available for "fall league" and spring tournaments and "summer league." It's like the winter season doesn't even matter

This is interesting and, IMO, wrong headed. our varsity basketball coach encourages his team to play other varsity sports. He has put every graduating senior who wanted to into college programs, either D1, or academically competitive D3 programs (ie NESCAC/IVY type schools.) College coaches WANT multi sport athletes. The coach for the PP's kid is doing a major disservice based on our experience.

[Anonymous]

My freshman in college nephew just did this. He did club basketball, school basketball, school football and school track. He was varsity for all for all 4 years and has a scholarship for football, playing as a college freshman. He graduated with a 3.8.