- Dec 11, 2010
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@pattar- absolutely right. And my dd’s did run track and played bb and vb for at least part of middle school. My comments are mostly from the point of view of a dude whose last dd is graduating hs this week.
There is also a big exception to my three sport athlete rant. It is the “1%er” type athlete that can play any sport she wants at the time. College coaches see a lot of these and I think they assume that the reason why they are good college athletes is they played three sports. It’s more like they were so athletic they could play anything they want and then pick up where they left off when the next sport starts. They are pretty rare. BUT... They have to have the gifts of athleticism AND the gift of a body that can hold up to the abuse. One of the most athletic kids I have ever seen in my life was a track star, a vb star, A bb star, could pitch a softball very competitively. It was like she could do anything and she was poetry in motion when you watched her play any sport. She made it to her sophomore year before her knee and right shoulder transformed her from a stand out student athlete into a stand out student. She wasn’t limited in what she could play. She couldn’t play at all. It was a shame.
I have always thought that she had one flaw: she could do anything and wanted to do everything. It’s too bad. If she would have focused on softball.... I think we would have been watching her on tv.
There is also a big exception to my three sport athlete rant. It is the “1%er” type athlete that can play any sport she wants at the time. College coaches see a lot of these and I think they assume that the reason why they are good college athletes is they played three sports. It’s more like they were so athletic they could play anything they want and then pick up where they left off when the next sport starts. They are pretty rare. BUT... They have to have the gifts of athleticism AND the gift of a body that can hold up to the abuse. One of the most athletic kids I have ever seen in my life was a track star, a vb star, A bb star, could pitch a softball very competitively. It was like she could do anything and she was poetry in motion when you watched her play any sport. She made it to her sophomore year before her knee and right shoulder transformed her from a stand out student athlete into a stand out student. She wasn’t limited in what she could play. She couldn’t play at all. It was a shame.
I have always thought that she had one flaw: she could do anything and wanted to do everything. It’s too bad. If she would have focused on softball.... I think we would have been watching her on tv.