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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in 8th grade. She plays a "spring" sport but her club team is really in season spring, summer, and fall, and then trains in the winter. Next year, in HS, she would like to play a fall sport (minimal cuts as I understand it) as well as her primary sport in the spring. Travel team will be on hold during the spring HS season but not during the fall. I am confident she could handle a winter sport, but the only one she plays/is interested in is not a team she is likely to make at our high school (even with a freshman, JV, and V team). Is this doable? I am thinking probably not if she wants to get good grades with all honors courses. [/quote]

Any intensive sport will be in the red zone on recovery and should manage a youth's development to maximize performance in that sport.  Unfortunately, that's the way it is to be hyper competitive.  Take swimming, by high school they'll be swimming six days a week year-round.  Any rest times are built in rest times.  Tapering isn't a day off to go play soccer it's time to build up glycogen for the next big meet.

I'm not saying these sports don't have seasons like fall swimming or something where there is noticeably less intense practices or whatever, but they plan these things on a meso-scale, and those are recuperation times building towards that next big meet or tournament.

The resting is accounted for in the sport.[/quote]

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