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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Audrey McKeen did competitive swim for a long time until she specialized in soccer. Also, I think you can do things like rec to balance the stress of NL sport. I know many who do high school sports right after school and then go to soccer practice. Not sure how they manage games that conflict though. That said, I think it can be done and should be done if you can make it work. My kid is of a similar age to the OP so I too am curious about high school aged kids and how they make it work. [/quote]

She was quite good at swimming too. Clearly a natural athlete who also works  hard. Swimming and other individual sports are a little easier because you aren’t letting down a team if you miss the individual sport for the team sport. The individual sport is whatever you want to make of it. Until high school at least. Then I imagine it’s a problem not to be at practices or competitions because there is team point scoring.

For whatever it’s worth, I went D1 in an individual sport and played a seasonal team sport through from 7th-10th grade. There weren’t club teams in our area for that sport, only school teams. So it wasn’t year round. I wasn’t very good, but I wanted to be part of a real team. It was a lot going straight from one practice to the other and ultimately not sustainable. But I am glad I did it as I think it helped with overall athleticism. [/quote]

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