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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is one of the biggest changes since we were kids.  My husband was a three sport varsity athlete in HS, and went on to compete Div 1 in one of those sports as a walk on.  (Ironically, it was his worst HS sport, but his best HS sport was incredibly competitive at his college.)  He's a lifelong athlete.

I was listening to the Yankees game the other night, and the announcer Paul O'Neal (famous Yankee who played in the 90s) casually mentioned a story from his HS basketball team.  Kenny Lofton (another famous MLB player from the 1990s) was a HS basketball player and I think also ran track -- he came to baseball fairly late to have something to do in the spring in HS to stay in shape, and in fact played for the UArizona basketball team that went to the final four, but decided he wanted a career in baseball not basketball, and played 17 years in the MLB.  So Lofton was a two sport athlete at least through college!

I just think we see that less and less now.  I don't know any kids that play multiple sports...my son did a club team his freshman year of HS combined with a very low level travel team in a different sport, but even that was kind of too much because the travel team practices year round.  He could do it if he didn't take advanced academic classes, but can't do all three.

I have another kid that played varsity for her HS sport, and it was almost impossible to play unless you also did travel team in the off season.  She ended up in college playing a different sport, basically as a walk on, that she had learned at summer camp, and that doesn't have the kind of industrial machine feeding kids into it (yet).

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