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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:46 pm Read some sport development books posted in the past 10 years. Sport specialization has been prevalent in Canada and is almost exclusively the way things are done in Europe and has proven benefits over multi sport training. Stop thinking that lacrosse will make your kid a good hockey player just because Gretzky played lacrosse. Welcome to the modern age. Play other sports if you want, but it's really not helping.

Here you go bud, see below (and for the record I was pro and multi sport)

Source - The Sports Institute

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Hopes at odds with reality
Unfortunately, athletes’ and parents’ expectations are vastly at odds with reality.

The math is fairly straightforward and unforgiving. There are close to 8 million athletes playing in high school. There are fewer than half a million slots for athletes on college teams. That means, on average, about seven out of 100 high school athletes make a college team. Perhaps one in 100 receives a scholarship. And even fewer make it to the Olympics or pros.

Despite the achievements of prodigies such as Tiger Woods and Mikaela Shiffrin, there is surprisingly scant evidence that the majority of athletes who achieve elite status do so because they specialized at an early age. Indeed, most of the evidence supports the contrary view.
Data collected over the past few years—including the first studies in professional athletes—suggest that early specialization is not necessary to achieve elite levels of performance. Compared to other athletes, athletes competing at the highest levels more often postpone specialization until later in adolescence and compete in more sports during high school.

Professional football: According to Tracking Football, a scouting service that keeps tabs on high school and college athletes, 88% of NFL draft picks in 2018 and 2017 were multisport athletes in high school. (The other sports most often played by football players were track and field and basketball.)
Professional hockey: In a 2019 survey of professional and college ice hockey players, the average age of specialization was 14. “Early pediatric sports specialization before age 12 years is not necessary for athletic success in professional and collegiate ice hockey,” the Penn State authors concluded. (Other sports most often played by hockey players were soccer, baseball and lacrosse.)
Professional basketball: Although it isn’t clear when professional basketball players begin to specialize, most focused exclusively on basketball by the time they reach high school. Those who played additional sports in high school seem to better endure the rigors of the NBA. Compared to their single-sport teammates, NBA first-round draft picks who were multisport athletes suffered fewer major injuries in the NBA, played in more games and had longer careers.
NCAA Division I: Several studies have shown that Division I athletes usually played multiple sports as children, and specialized later. “Across a large variety of sports, only a minority of Division I collegiate athletes specialized in a single sport as an early adolescent,” noted Columbia University researchers in a 2019 paper.
International. Danish researchers looked at characteristics that might differentiate elite competitors from non-elite athletes in international sports. Both groups of athletes played multiple sports. However, near-elite athletes devoted more time to training in their main sport when they were younger, before age 15. The elite athletes ramped up training in their main sport after age 18. “The optimal career path is not only a question of amount of training hours but also a question of when training regimes occur,” the Danish researchers concluded.

You’re a knob gobbler! Keep reading books…moron

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:24 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:46 pm Read some sport development books posted in the past 10 years. Sport specialization has been prevalent in Canada and is almost exclusively the way things are done in Europe and has proven benefits over multi sport training. Stop thinking that lacrosse will make your kid a good hockey player just because Gretzky played lacrosse. Welcome to the modern age. Play other sports if you want, but it's really not helping.

Here you go bud, see below (and for the record I was pro and multi sport)

Source - The Sports Institute

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Hopes at odds with reality
Unfortunately, athletes’ and parents’ expectations are vastly at odds with reality.

The math is fairly straightforward and unforgiving. There are close to 8 million athletes playing in high school. There are fewer than half a million slots for athletes on college teams. That means, on average, about seven out of 100 high school athletes make a college team. Perhaps one in 100 receives a scholarship. And even fewer make it to the Olympics or pros.

Despite the achievements of prodigies such as Tiger Woods and Mikaela Shiffrin, there is surprisingly scant evidence that the majority of athletes who achieve elite status do so because they specialized at an early age. Indeed, most of the evidence supports the contrary view.
Data collected over the past few years—including the first studies in professional athletes—suggest that early specialization is not necessary to achieve elite levels of performance. Compared to other athletes, athletes competing at the highest levels more often postpone specialization until later in adolescence and compete in more sports during high school.

Professional football: According to Tracking Football, a scouting service that keeps tabs on high school and college athletes, 88% of NFL draft picks in 2018 and 2017 were multisport athletes in high school. (The other sports most often played by football players were track and field and basketball.)
Professional hockey: In a 2019 survey of professional and college ice hockey players, the average age of specialization was 14. “Early pediatric sports specialization before age 12 years is not necessary for athletic success in professional and collegiate ice hockey,” the Penn State authors concluded. (Other sports most often played by hockey players were soccer, baseball and lacrosse.)
Professional basketball: Although it isn’t clear when professional basketball players begin to specialize, most focused exclusively on basketball by the time they reach high school. Those who played additional sports in high school seem to better endure the rigors of the NBA. Compared to their single-sport teammates, NBA first-round draft picks who were multisport athletes suffered fewer major injuries in the NBA, played in more games and had longer careers.
NCAA Division I: Several studies have shown that Division I athletes usually played multiple sports as children, and specialized later. “Across a large variety of sports, only a minority of Division I collegiate athletes specialized in a single sport as an early adolescent,” noted Columbia University researchers in a 2019 paper.
International. Danish researchers looked at characteristics that might differentiate elite competitors from non-elite athletes in international sports. Both groups of athletes played multiple sports. However, near-elite athletes devoted more time to training in their main sport when they were younger, before age 15. The elite athletes ramped up training in their main sport after age 18. “The optimal career path is not only a question of amount of training hours but also a question of when training regimes occur,” the Danish researchers concluded.

You’re a knob gobbler! Keep reading books…moron

Uncredited drivel….its idiots like you that make the world go round

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:13 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:24 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:46 pm Read some sport development books posted in the past 10 years. Sport specialization has been prevalent in Canada and is almost exclusively the way things are done in Europe and has proven benefits over multi sport training. Stop thinking that lacrosse will make your kid a good hockey player just because Gretzky played lacrosse. Welcome to the modern age. Play other sports if you want, but it's really not helping.

Here you go bud, see below (and for the record I was pro and multi sport)

Source - The Sports Institute

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Hopes at odds with reality
Unfortunately, athletes’ and parents’ expectations are vastly at odds with reality.

The math is fairly straightforward and unforgiving. There are close to 8 million athletes playing in high school. There are fewer than half a million slots for athletes on college teams. That means, on average, about seven out of 100 high school athletes make a college team. Perhaps one in 100 receives a scholarship. And even fewer make it to the Olympics or pros.

Despite the achievements of prodigies such as Tiger Woods and Mikaela Shiffrin, there is surprisingly scant evidence that the majority of athletes who achieve elite status do so because they specialized at an early age. Indeed, most of the evidence supports the contrary view.
Data collected over the past few years—including the first studies in professional athletes—suggest that early specialization is not necessary to achieve elite levels of performance. Compared to other athletes, athletes competing at the highest levels more often postpone specialization until later in adolescence and compete in more sports during high school.

Professional football: According to Tracking Football, a scouting service that keeps tabs on high school and college athletes, 88% of NFL draft picks in 2018 and 2017 were multisport athletes in high school. (The other sports most often played by football players were track and field and basketball.)
Professional hockey: In a 2019 survey of professional and college ice hockey players, the average age of specialization was 14. “Early pediatric sports specialization before age 12 years is not necessary for athletic success in professional and collegiate ice hockey,” the Penn State authors concluded. (Other sports most often played by hockey players were soccer, baseball and lacrosse.)
Professional basketball: Although it isn’t clear when professional basketball players begin to specialize, most focused exclusively on basketball by the time they reach high school. Those who played additional sports in high school seem to better endure the rigors of the NBA. Compared to their single-sport teammates, NBA first-round draft picks who were multisport athletes suffered fewer major injuries in the NBA, played in more games and had longer careers.
NCAA Division I: Several studies have shown that Division I athletes usually played multiple sports as children, and specialized later. “Across a large variety of sports, only a minority of Division I collegiate athletes specialized in a single sport as an early adolescent,” noted Columbia University researchers in a 2019 paper.
International. Danish researchers looked at characteristics that might differentiate elite competitors from non-elite athletes in international sports. Both groups of athletes played multiple sports. However, near-elite athletes devoted more time to training in their main sport when they were younger, before age 15. The elite athletes ramped up training in their main sport after age 18. “The optimal career path is not only a question of amount of training hours but also a question of when training regimes occur,” the Danish researchers concluded.

You’re a knob gobbler! Keep reading books…moron

Uncredited drivel….its idiots like you that make the world go round

And you’re working the night shift at the Timmie’s drive thru

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:13 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:24 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:53 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:46 pm Read some sport development books posted in the past 10 years. Sport specialization has been prevalent in Canada and is almost exclusively the way things are done in Europe and has proven benefits over multi sport training. Stop thinking that lacrosse will make your kid a good hockey player just because Gretzky played lacrosse. Welcome to the modern age. Play other sports if you want, but it's really not helping.

Here you go bud, see below (and for the record I was pro and multi sport)

Source - The Sports Institute

---------------------------------
Hopes at odds with reality
Unfortunately, athletes’ and parents’ expectations are vastly at odds with reality.

The math is fairly straightforward and unforgiving. There are close to 8 million athletes playing in high school. There are fewer than half a million slots for athletes on college teams. That means, on average, about seven out of 100 high school athletes make a college team. Perhaps one in 100 receives a scholarship. And even fewer make it to the Olympics or pros.

Despite the achievements of prodigies such as Tiger Woods and Mikaela Shiffrin, there is surprisingly scant evidence that the majority of athletes who achieve elite status do so because they specialized at an early age. Indeed, most of the evidence supports the contrary view.
Data collected over the past few years—including the first studies in professional athletes—suggest that early specialization is not necessary to achieve elite levels of performance. Compared to other athletes, athletes competing at the highest levels more often postpone specialization until later in adolescence and compete in more sports during high school.

Professional football: According to Tracking Football, a scouting service that keeps tabs on high school and college athletes, 88% of NFL draft picks in 2018 and 2017 were multisport athletes in high school. (The other sports most often played by football players were track and field and basketball.)
Professional hockey: In a 2019 survey of professional and college ice hockey players, the average age of specialization was 14. “Early pediatric sports specialization before age 12 years is not necessary for athletic success in professional and collegiate ice hockey,” the Penn State authors concluded. (Other sports most often played by hockey players were soccer, baseball and lacrosse.)
Professional basketball: Although it isn’t clear when professional basketball players begin to specialize, most focused exclusively on basketball by the time they reach high school. Those who played additional sports in high school seem to better endure the rigors of the NBA. Compared to their single-sport teammates, NBA first-round draft picks who were multisport athletes suffered fewer major injuries in the NBA, played in more games and had longer careers.
NCAA Division I: Several studies have shown that Division I athletes usually played multiple sports as children, and specialized later. “Across a large variety of sports, only a minority of Division I collegiate athletes specialized in a single sport as an early adolescent,” noted Columbia University researchers in a 2019 paper.
International. Danish researchers looked at characteristics that might differentiate elite competitors from non-elite athletes in international sports. Both groups of athletes played multiple sports. However, near-elite athletes devoted more time to training in their main sport when they were younger, before age 15. The elite athletes ramped up training in their main sport after age 18. “The optimal career path is not only a question of amount of training hours but also a question of when training regimes occur,” the Danish researchers concluded.

You’re a knob gobbler! Keep reading books…moron

Uncredited drivel….its idiots like you that make the world go round

And you’re working the night shift at the Timmie’s drive thru

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:12 pm this thread blows, every day I have to skim by posts from the TYN cut lunatic and the early maturity lunatic. do other age groups get this? bitter retards who nobody cares about what they're talking about so they think they need to post it again, and again, and again. stfu already

interesting = who is going where, stuff that happened in a game
not interesting = maturity theory or your grudge about top 4 team coaches

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:57 am

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 11:12 pm this thread blows, every day I have to skim by posts from the TYN cut lunatic and the early maturity lunatic. do other age groups get this? bitter retards who nobody cares about what they're talking about so they think they need to post it again, and again, and again. stfu already

interesting = who is going where, stuff that happened in a game
not interesting = maturity theory or your grudge about top 4 team coaches

Who is going where is interesting? That’s got zero to do with sports and development and everything to do with adults taking over a kids game for themselves. Gossiping like a little Not Allowed is what you do this for??? What Fu>king loser you are!

That’s why you duck and your kid will always suck, you don’t know what sports is all about!

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:20 am RC from TT has committed to 24 kids. He’s unleashed so much negativity to his current players, calling them fat, they suck, you’re a siingle A player, it’s mandatory to attend all of his training. Can’t see what everyone else sees in him?

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 3:22 am Your source is an unsearchable entity called “The Sports Institute”?

Who did the study? Who wrote that article?
Nobody wanted to put their name on that garbage.

You didn’t get much of an education, did you? Do you believe everything you read on the back of the cereal box?

You’re a fool with no credibility. Dismissed!

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:40 am

Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:20 am RC from TT has committed to 24 kids. He’s unleashed so much negativity to his current players, calling them fat, they suck, you’re a siingle A player, it’s mandatory to attend all of his training. Can’t see what everyone else sees in him?

Not a good coach, Very immature, all about $$