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[quote=Anonymous]My kids do multiple sports by choice and I’ve definitely seen benefits. Competitive winter swim has provided conditioning that their lacrosse and basketball coaches have commented on. They’ve also really benefitted from the social aspects - getting to play on teams with their friends and being enthusiastic about pick up basketball and football in their spare time. Going into high school, they feel they have a lot of choices for continuing sports. They’re starting to get more focused, but not necessarily on the sports that we thought they’d end up playing when they were 4th graders.

This isn’t to say this is the only path, but it’s worked out well for my family, with the one downside of occasional craziness when seasons overlap.

We avoided anything with ridiculous time commitments (mostly stuck to rec) through elementary to make it work, and  ramped up the intensity of their primary sports only in late middle school. They’ve both been doing fine and one is even now training for national-level competitions in a sport he was only dabbling in a couple years ago.[/quote]

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