If your kid is a star in sport A but wants to half ass it (and be pretty useful) in sports B & C while still training for sport A a considerable amount of the time, most (but not all) coaches will work with you.

For example:
Sport A: Swimmer. Among top few athletes at the school, scores at county/conference, state and/or METROS qualifier.

Sport B: Track and Field or maybe XC. Athlete can clearly help the team. Lets say its a guy who can run a sub 18 5k or a 4:40 mile off little running practice. Or a girl that runs sub 21 on little XC training and goes to the pool most days..

If they're going to help and be better than all the coaches other options, why not have them? The coaches job is to win. Take what you can get.

Near guarantee if you were a star in sport B and told the swim coach, "hey, I have AAA times but I can only come to meets since I play Bball"...swim coach would send a limo on meet days...

Anonymous wrote:Most coaches would be okay with your child missing practice to do practice for another sport of equal or greater physical intensity. I think the attitude would be different if you were missing XC practice due to conflict with an arts or academic activity.

+1. And at the least, go meet the coach, tell him the situation, your bball history etc. So many kids try out, he will get lost and if he hasn’t been to Green Day’s, unlikely to make the team.

Anonymous wrote:Most coaches would be okay with your child missing practice to do practice for another sport of equal or greater physical intensity. I think the attitude would be different if you were missing XC practice due to conflict with an arts or academic activity.

I don't think it actually works that way. Let me explain. Individual sports often have a few very important meets throughout the year. They have a training regimen that leads to the best times at those events. Maybe early in the season, but when you get near the meets. They do things like taper and what not, suppose your kid goes to a preseason basketball tryout. It totally messes up the taper...

I don't agree with the way these personal best sports work, where they continually train, but it isn't continual training, they have cycles, tapers and what not so year round training isn't as bad as it seems it isn't 100 percent year round, but they also don't leave any room for other types of physical activity. They take resting seriously. I think it's good to get some of this style of training for basketball, but basketball training probably doesn't help cross country.

Most coaches would be okay with your child missing practice to do practice for another sport of equal or greater physical intensity. I think the attitude would be different if you were missing XC practice due to conflict with an arts or academic activity.

For basketball, it is essential for coaches to know you prior to tryouts (for boys). Recommendation is to make as many green days as permissible with xc.

Anonymous wrote:DC doing XC, and expectation is to show up for EVERY practice. This would be fine, except basketball (a winter sport) is starting clinics leading up to try outs in November. They are optional, but attending provides a lot of visibility with the coaches which could help at try outs.

How do most people handle this? Used to be you could play a different sport each season without conflicts, but that doesn’t appear to be the case anymore.

These days many of the individual sports have very intense training regimens. It sort of sucks, but the problem is that you have to build in recovery times. If they are doing something else, then their muscles aren't recovering for the next training set to get maximum results.

That is the basic thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Let your dc make the call. Is winter bball important to them, more than XC?
Ideally there wouldn’t be a conflict but the reality is lots of kids are navigating two sports during a HS season.

He personally values Basketball more but the reality is that he very well may not make the team despite appearing in Green Day’s and getting his face known to the coaches. It’s super competitive.

What are Green Days?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC doing XC, and expectation is to show up for EVERY practice. This would be fine, except basketball (a winter sport) is starting clinics leading up to try outs in November. They are optional, but attending provides a lot of visibility with the coaches which could help at try outs.

How do most people handle this? Used to be you could play a different sport each season without conflicts, but that doesn’t appear to be the case anymore.

“Used to be” is a reference to when I was in HS, which may be a bit dated but whatever.
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Define "used to be"? What year, what school system, what school, what sports? Were these possible conflicts pre-coordinated?

I know a couple of HS athletes who play two sports in the same season, and manage their green/yellow days for a winter sport. The athlete took all the steps prior to the fall season to coordinate things, to include having the DSA at the school be aware and sign off.

What is a DSA?

Director of Student Activities, essentially the Athletic Director at a public HS, but they handle other activities as well. Sports teams fall under the DSA.