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[quote=Anonymous]My DC is a multi-sport athlete and a rising u13 as well. I'll say that the main reason we can pull this off is because our DC's second sport is extremely flexible on practice schedules and competitions. Our DC is doing one of two sports 6-7 days a week, but we don't double up on practices. While my DC is a top athlete in both sports (a starter who will play on a top team in one of the top national leagues), they are not the best at either sport. There's just no way to be as good as the kids that do the same sport 7 days a week. It's a tough journey, and most that we know that do two sports do one sport at a travel level and one at a rec level, where generally the rec sport coach knows that that is their second sport.

Our unspoken agreement with our soccer coach is that as long as we don't miss the major soccer events, we're good. He likes to know why we're missing any events, and he gives less accommodations for those missing a soccer event for another sport. I'll note that we end up missing less soccer activities than some of the best kids, but because they're the best, they get plenty of allowance to do whatever they want.

A downside is that we can almost never make the last minute pop-up practices/games/scrimmages, and it means we don't get guest play opportunities. I know others on our team are trying to make the basketball vs. soccer decision going into u13 year, and it's not an easy one. We're fortunate we have a second sport that is very flexible.[/quote]

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