https://fortune.com/2016/02/04/women-sports-successful/
This is why women who play sports are more successful
NumeroUno wrote:https://fortune.com/2016/02/04/women-sports-successful/
This is why women who play sports are more successful
Sbmom2008! wrote:It’s almost impossible to become a multi sport athlete these days. My daughter is only 11 and already at a point where she must choose softball or volleyball because both sports play year round and compete with each other. Where we live, in order to get on a high school team in either sport, most will have been playing on a club team for a few years. It’s not possible to play 2 competitive sports in the same season. Coaches and the other teammates want everyone there all the time. Youth sports is a big business and there is way too much money to be made to have a sport played only 1 or even 2 seasons per year. Where we live, HS VB is played in the fall and SB is played in the spring so logically one could play both, but now because of club sports going year round, it makes it near impossible to compete with someone who plays the sport year round to make the team.
My daughter decided this week she would not tryout for club volleyball so she can focus on softball and pitching in the spring due to the conflicts with the schedule. Softball actually will end this weekend and start up again in mid January where we live. She’s only in 6th grade and her decision is sadly already eliminating any possibility of her playing volleyball in HS. She is playing CYO Basketball this winter, but that doesn’t really conflict with softball since it ends when softball really starts to ramp up in early March. She also plays golf and tennis, but now has it in her head that golf messes up her batting swing because that’s what her coach told her. It’s all so nuts now for kids.
I’d love my daughter to be a multi sport athlete in high school. I just don’t see how it can be possible with such early specialization into one sport. It’s all about the $$$$ now. When parents put collectively put their foot down to year round sports and early specialization, maybe we will get back to playing sports seasonally like they were meant to be played.
Spazsdad wrote:“there are more scholarships available for golfers than softball”
Do you any links to support this statement? Golf teams are usually pretty small, around 8 or less vs the 12 scholarships for softball