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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, all.  I am trying not to have specific goals for my kid.  They are athletic and were good at everything in early to mid-elementary school, but now they're getting passed up in all of their sports by kids who have specialized, and it is demoralizing.  And sports overlap, so we're constantly letting one coach or team down.  They don't have a favorite - they look forward to the season changes.  I'm afraid they won't even make the high school team in lacrosse, for example, if they don't play it more than a few months a year. [/quote]

Don’t forget the puberty factor as well (which starts to come into play at this age). Some of the performance differences can be related to puberty/physical maturity and that will be the case until boys are 15-16ish years old. Also- eventual physical size/build. Sometimes kids start filtering in or out (or switching focus) around this age based on their physical attributes. For example a very tall boy focusing more on basketball and dropping baseball, or a shorter boy putting basketball on the back burner and focusing more on wrestling or whatever. [/quote]

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