Youth sports: One or all?
I wasn’t feeling particularly loquacious on this Wednesday, so to cure my writer’s block, I turned to you. I’ve decided not to limit myself to one article today. Instead, I plan to write a reply to each of the responses I receive. ********************************************** An excellent question, and one that's had quite a few "right answers" in the last two decades. Although the answer that I will provide below is technically just my opinion, I feel like I've been around long enough to see which route usually has a better result. Focusing on a single sport as a kid was the wave of the future at the beginning of the 2000s. I don't know if coaches and parents had a collective hangover from all the dehydrated food they had to eat after their bomb shelters proved useless for Y2K, but if you wanted to be taken seriously as an athlete and have a prospective career beyond high school, coaches would tell kids to drop all their other sports, hire a...