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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.[/quote]

1000%.  Any coach worth his/her salt should be encouraging of kids playing multi-sports, especially before HS age.  As coach of multiple sports (lacrosse, basketball, baseball), kids that play multiple sports (rather than concentrating early) are better overall athletes, are usually more mature mentally (because they're not as burned out or have all their eggs in one basket) and you can see them bringing things they've learned from other sports (basketball players just cut harder on a lacrosse field because they're more used to the change in speed etc.)

Club soccer coaches are the absolute worst about this.  They demand soccer as year-round commitment from early age and in my experience actively dissuade (and even guilt trip) players who would like to play other sports.  Extremely selfish and counterproductive and shows they don't know much about coaching.[/quote]

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