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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure that most athletes in the olympics specialized in 1 sport[/quote]

71% of DI men’s football players were multisport athletes in high school.[/quote]

Football isn’t a International sport and skills are developed upon athletes well after puberty.

This constant comparison of soccer to American football is why folks just don’t get it[/quote]

I keep forgetting soccer is special --- with rules that apply strictly soccer because its different than any other sport.

7 out of 10 US Olympic athletes surveyed grew up playing multiple sports and found the experience valuable.

About 88% of D1 lacrosse players, played another sport in high school.

US Youth Soccer surveyed more than 500 college soccer coaches and asked if they prefer an athlete who played multiple sports. Of the 221 Division I coaches who answered, just 16 — 7 percent — said they would prefer a player who played only soccer and was not a multi-sport athlete.
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Good to know if your goal is to impress college coaches, which is the best most of our kids can hope for.  I have to say though that it's kind of annoying that so many of these college coaches answer the survey one way, and then go out of their way to recruit (and give scholarships to) all these foreign players who only ever played soccer growing up.

Has anyone done a survey on what the coaches for the top professional teams in the world think about this question?  Seems like that would be helpful information. [/quote]

Approximately 0% of us will have children who play a sport on a top professional team. Slightly more will have children who play in college.
But most of us will have children who play rec or club, and then goes on to live a perfectly normal life without high level athletics.

For my kids, multi-sports works well in supporting that. Swim is a life long sport, which has been beneficial to them. But neither of my kids were solely focused on swim, so I'm also thankful for soccer and lacrosse. And my lacrosse kid also loved basketball. My kids will have experience across multiple sports enabling them to play casual pick up games, in adult beer leagues, and so on for the rest of their lives. Being multi sport athletes allowed them to learn different things from their various sports, and it meant they weren't tied into whichever one they started first. Soccer kid tried field hockey in high school. She probably wouldn't have given it a go if her life had been all soccer-soccer-soccer to the exclusion of everything else.

I suppose for the 0% of us who are raising kids who are going to be at the very top of their sport, missing a swim meet for a soccer game would be unacceptable, and a sign of a problem. For the rest of us, it's exposing our kids to a variety of activities and hoping they find things, or at least habits, that will stick with them through adulthood helping them to have a long and healthy life.[/quote]

I agree but how is this relevant?  Post is about playing them all at the same time and causing fatigue and injury.  So your kid wakes up for swim, goes to lacrosse and then soccer?[/quote]

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