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[quote=Anonymous]The point about multisport athletes is more applicable to the high school level.  Yes, kids can play multiple sports on travel/club/rec teams.  They will always take your money.

High school teams are a different beast.

At our local athletic powerhouse private high school (not DC) which produces around 30 college athletes per year, has sons of professional athletes enrolled, has produced multiple Gatorade national players of the year in their sport and top ten picks in recent drafts, the multisport athlete is extremely rare and, to the extent it happens, is a fall/spring combo.  Very rarely will it include a winter sport.

Yes, athletes that can naturally make multiple varsity teams at extremely competitive schools  continue to exist.  But there are two filter mechanisms happening.  First, the coaches want their players dedicated to one sport year round.   Second, those kids are destined to play college sports and they aren’t going to risk injury in their secondary sport.  And, so, you the observed phenomenon of the death of multisport athlete continues.

Two final things:  These issues have been identified for nearly a decade and the death of the multisport athlete is well documented.  Second, this has filtered to the NCAA level where multisport talented athletes are rarer than ever, and even if they exist, they drop one of their sports as underclassmen.

The notable exception is track where football players still routinely run for the track team in spring.[/quote]

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