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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is into swimming, but also enjoys other sports.  She's 10 now, so we can balance the 3 swim practices a week with other sports.  But her club expects 4 practices from 11-12 year olds and 5-6 per week from 13 and up.  At some point, it's going to be impossible to juggle that.  At what point did your swimmer give up other sports and just go to swimming (or give up swimming for other sports)?[/quote]

Multi sport athletes doing very well at the HS swim level. Those who specialize early usually lack athleticism and explosiveness. Develop the athlete now, specialize later. Also helps reduce burnout [/quote]

On the flip side, swimmers can do training that will improve their athleticism and explosiveness without necessarily playing a different sport. I played a team sport at school and swam club through 10th grade, before focusing on just swimming. The team sport wasn’t hard enough to make me a better athlete. We spent a lot of time waiting in line doing drills. The focused dryland training done with my swim coaches in late HS and then in college was MUCH harder and better for developing my athleticism. We would do very high intensity work in a short time. We would also combine it with swimming sometimes for example sprint a 25, get out and do pushups, dive back in and sprint a 25. 
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