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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cant - and shouldnt- play two sports at once. When people talk about multi-sport they dont mean at the same time/season. Thats ludicrous.

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With club/travel taking over more and more of the youth sports world, more and more sports are year round/overlap.

I'm not saying that's how it should be, I'm just saying you see it more and more often.[/quote]

My 14 year old son plays baseball and basketball (both travel).  Our strategy is to prioritize the seasonally “correct” sport at all times.  Meaning, if his baseball team has winter practice he’ll go if he can make it, but there is no chance he’ll skip basketball for it.  Similarly, as basketball drags on into spring, he might go to baseball practice over basketball practice (but probably a basketball game over baseball practice unless he’s already missed more than one baseball practice).

This seems to work for him (and us) but we have also been lucky I suppose in that none of his coaches have been lunatics who don’t understand or remember childhood.[/quote]

This is what we've done (not baseball/basketball but lax and basketball). It just demonstrates how awful soccer is with club coaches and directors seeking out the next Christian Pulisic but you got to feed the travel soccer fees and salaries.

No other sport seems to want to demand as much "practice" time as the other sports. Soccer starts in the late summer and basically runs through June and there are generally no excuses. All the other sports seem to understand there is an offseason and take time off for long stretches. The AAU season starts after the normal season is over. Most HS lax travel programs have a few practices in the fall and winter and take off much of the spring for HS (youth is a little different with HOCO). [b]Football has fall and that's it.[/b] But, soccer runs all year. Maybe we've been lucky but most of the coaches we've crossed paths with in travel sports have accommodated the view that missing practice in the off season for in season sports and games was okay.[/quote]

FYI - spring workouts began in March.  And the 7:00 AM workouts begin (for our HS at least) literally the day after the last day of school.

Football definitely gets winter off from organized training, but even then, the kids are in the weight room.  But the formal weight training began again in March

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Sure. But, the OPs kid is in middle school so I doubt there is formal off season workouts that the DC is missing. HS is a completely different story.[/quote]

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