Promising Practices to Support Multi-Sport Programming

According to Jim Grove at Active for Life, when kids specialize early in one sport or activity, it doesn’t guarantee they will be successful athletes in the long term. To the contrary, research has revealed that they tend to get injured more frequently, burnout, and quit. This is why many coaches and health professionals are now saying that we should promote multi-sport programming for kids, and the recent Play More Sports campaign focuses on this message

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