High school is hard and making a high school sports team is even harder, especially at the big high schools. The pressure is immense but everything you have done over the past 13 – 14 years gets you ready for those moments. Most people think you have to specialize in one sport to make the high school team when in reality the research says differently. 

According to ESPN.com article called “5 reasons you want your kid to be a multi-sport athlete” there are more benefits to being a multi-sport athlete than playing one sport. It can limit your options and opportunities if you don’t try different sports as you grow up. It exposes you to different roles from being a leader on a team to maybe a role player on the bench. It helps youth with their  growth socially and developmentally and exposes them to other kids with different outlooks. 

Playing different sports helps with the prevention of burnout  and can even lower the risk of injury from using the same muscles repeatedly. With all of the positives to trying different sports growing up this will help youth in knowing their strengths when they get to high school. By not boxing our youth into one sport growing up it can help create a healthy foundation in who they are in the future.