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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much bad advice on this chain.

There's all sorts of evidence that HS athletes do better academically in-season than out of season. Boys, in particular, play more video games and use more substances when they're not playing sports--and, predictably, their grades suffer, they don't improve. (But at least they get to enjoy worse mental and physical health, so there's that.)[/quote]

Do you have a cite to that study?  The study I am looking at shows that high school athletes have better grades than non-athletes but their grades tend to be lower in season than out of season.

If I could pick a season for my kid to have a sport, it would be the Fall.  The finals don't come around until January long after the season is over and the pre-season workouts really get them back into that school headspace after summer.  Winter sports are the worst.  They straddle two semesters and the height of the season is during first semester finals.  Spring season is OK but if your team is good, finals line up just about perfectly with finals.  All of this to say, I like Fall sports because it has almost all the benefits and almost none of the downsides.[/quote]

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