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[quote=Anonymous]Fitness vs overuse will depend entirely on the circumstances.  If your kid does nothing but sit on the couch between practices/games, injuries are likely fitness-related.  If they are highly active but only in one sport, it’s probably overuse.  If your child is active outside of practices/games but does a variety of activities, it could be a variety of things.

My kid is U14.  He’s a goalkeeper, and has a training plan of core strengthening exercises and strength/agility drills that he does during the off-season and during regular practices while the rest of the team is running.  Between those workouts and the ones they do in his weekly goalkeeper practices, he doesn’t bother doing additional workouts during the week.  No separate running workouts, but he spends a lot of his free time riding bikes with his friends, playing a variety of sports with his friends, walks a mile round trip each school day going to/from school, etc., so his fitness level seems fine for his position.

As for having it called out by others, last year was the first year we saw fitness level being a significant issue, because of the move to the full sized field.  The coach addressed it with specific players, but the players themselves didn’t seem to say much about it.  This year the players are taking about it more directly to each other because they’re tired of having certain teammates be consistent weak links due to conditioning.  [/quote]

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