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Anonymous wrote:As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.

What other sports are good conditioning for lax, for girls? Would track be helpful? My DD plays lax but really wants to join track in HS. She's in 7th now.

The best way to be ready to play lacrosse is to play lacrosse. But as the prior poster to you said time away from lacrosse is beneficial to the interest in the sport and to help reduce the likelihood of injuries. A month at least dedicated to overall strength building will reduce injuries, and is a great time to focus on speed development which is beneficial for all sports.

The second best way would be to play a sport that is as similar as possible, basketball is of course great.

If you're daughter is interested in track she should run for sure as she is interested. If she's open to suggestions on what to run then 100m, 200m and/or 400m are the best fit for lacrosse. Hurdles would also be good. And if she does indoor track I definitely suggest the 55m or 60m, whichever the program does. In 7th grade she's still at a developmental age where developing speed should be the priority, and will have the longest lasting positive influence and carryover to lacrosse. If someone says she should run the mile and/or the 2 mile to develop endurance then all your daughter will be doing is training to run slower on the field. She needs to increase her maximum speed. If she wants to run distance of course she should. But for the purposes of lacrosse she really needs to increase her top speed.

Anonymous wrote:As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.

What other sports are good conditioning for lax, for girls? Would track be helpful? My DD plays lax but really wants to join track in HS. She's in 7th now.

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Anonymous wrote:As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.

1000%. Any coach worth his/her salt should be encouraging of kids playing multi-sports, especially before HS age. As coach of multiple sports (lacrosse, basketball, baseball), kids that play multiple sports (rather than concentrating early) are better overall athletes, are usually more mature mentally (because they're not as burned out or have all their eggs in one basket) and you can see them bringing things they've learned from other sports (basketball players just cut harder on a lacrosse field because they're more used to the change in speed etc.)

Club soccer coaches are the absolute worst about this. They demand soccer as year-round commitment from early age and in my experience actively dissuade (and even guilt trip) players who would like to play other sports. Extremely selfish and counterproductive and shows they don't know much about coaching.

Another reason why soccer is a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

Agree 100% with this answer. Clubs practice on weekends in fall so no conflict with school sports. Most lax players are multi-sport athletes for their high schools, at least in private schools. I don’t know how it works in public hs.

This is really helpful, thank you. My MS kid loves club/school lacrosse but loves other sports too like football, and I'm trying to gauge if continuing this is feasible.

It absolutely is... and really the only sport I've seen discourage this is Club Soccer.

While true that club soccer will not encourage multi sport/s participation, AAU hoops and LOTS of football coaches are not fans at all of other sports if feasible. This is particularly stupid, still, for football coaches who should have all their players doing track (at least).

Neither if my kids, boy or girl, who both played lacrosse from grade school thru HS, was ever discouraged by their lacrosse club coaches from playing other sports in lacrosse off-season (so only in Spring and early-to-mid Summer was Lacrosse the primary). IN fact, other than Spring and summer, they were greatly encouraged to play other sports.

I understand coaches try to prevent kids from playing other sports because they are afriad they will get injured and miss their primary sport's season but, the truth is that playing other sports in addition to your primary decreases the likelihood of injuries by diversifying muscle use and strength. Its sad so many coaches don't get this.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

Agree 100% with this answer. Clubs practice on weekends in fall so no conflict with school sports. Most lax players are multi-sport athletes for their high schools, at least in private schools. I don’t know how it works in public hs.

This is really helpful, thank you. My MS kid loves club/school lacrosse but loves other sports too like football, and I'm trying to gauge if continuing this is feasible.

It absolutely is... and really the only sport I've seen discourage this is Club Soccer.

While true that club soccer will not encourage multi sport/s participation, AAU hoops and LOTS of football coaches are not fans at all of other sports if feasible. This is particularly stupid, still, for football coaches who should have all their players doing track (at least).

Anonymous wrote:As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.

1000%. Any coach worth his/her salt should be encouraging of kids playing multi-sports, especially before HS age. As coach of multiple sports (lacrosse, basketball, baseball), kids that play multiple sports (rather than concentrating early) are better overall athletes, are usually more mature mentally (because they're not as burned out or have all their eggs in one basket) and you can see them bringing things they've learned from other sports (basketball players just cut harder on a lacrosse field because they're more used to the change in speed etc.)

Club soccer coaches are the absolute worst about this. They demand soccer as year-round commitment from early age and in my experience actively dissuade (and even guilt trip) players who would like to play other sports. Extremely selfish and counterproductive and shows they don't know much about coaching.

As a coach of a (girls) MS club team and a HS team, I highly encourage playing multiple sports - I did it through my senior year of HS. Missing lax sometimes in the fall/winter is fine as long as it's communicated and I would say at least 2/3s of my teams play more than 1 sport.

It's a great mental break from lacrosse and helps develop other muscles i.e. reducing injuries. And some do it just to hang out with other friends.

Coaches that discourage it, IMO, are selfish.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

Agree 100% with this answer. Clubs practice on weekends in fall so no conflict with school sports. Most lax players are multi-sport athletes for their high schools, at least in private schools. I don’t know how it works in public hs.

This is really helpful, thank you. My MS kid loves club/school lacrosse but loves other sports too like football, and I'm trying to gauge if continuing this is feasible.

It absolutely is... and really the only sport I've seen discourage this is Club Soccer.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

Agree 100% with this answer. Clubs practice on weekends in fall so no conflict with school sports. Most lax players are multi-sport athletes for their high schools, at least in private schools. I don’t know how it works in public hs.

This is really helpful, thank you. My MS kid loves club/school lacrosse but loves other sports too like football, and I'm trying to gauge if continuing this is feasible.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

Agree 100% with this answer. Clubs practice on weekends in fall so no conflict with school sports. Most lax players are multi-sport athletes for their high schools, at least in private schools. I don’t know how it works in public hs.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

While I don't have a DS, I do have a DD that plays club lax and plays sports for her high school. Practices are generally immediately after school and any club practice is usually at night/weekend. I would assume many of the boys are playing additional sports in HS as well. Very common on the girls side I've noticed.

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Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

If you are doing fall tournaments with your club, are you also playing a fall sport at your school?

Or do most high school lacrosse club players drop school sports except spring lacrosse? Trying to figure out what multisport athletes do re club.

Anonymous wrote:Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

No, its Fall and Summer tournaments, often with an optional winter box or indoor league with your club team and, of course, practices except Spring when high school teams are practicing and playing every day. PLusmost elite club players go to trainers for strength and agility training year-round.

Once you hit 9th grade, then it's summer only.

What do club teams typically do in the spring once the boys reach 9th grade and up, are they game only because kids are playing for their high school teams?