This is a good question that a number of young athletes face. You’re only 16 once and you want to enjoy everything high school has to offer. You meet new friends go to different places and learn new things playing different sports. Some are individual and some are team oriented and there are valuable experiences that you will take from each.
Yet, your main goal is to play sports at the next level and get an athletic scholarship. Then you better consider choosing one sport. As difficult as it is to make what seems to be an important decision when you’re so young can have a long term impact. Say you are good enough if you concentrated year round on a single sport to get an athletic scholarship. Four years of the average athletic scholarship at a public school can range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and much more for a private school.
Most sports will require you to have a year-round conditioning and weigh training program just to compete. You also better be playing for a club team or travel team year round. To get basketball scholarships, volleyball scholarships, soccer scholarships, baseball scholarships, etc. you must play in AAU, Junior Olympics and travel tournaments.
As if a high school student athlete doesn’t have enough to consider at that age it’s something the serious athletes should consider. Some colleges will commend the fact that you are multi talented and play multiple sports. Also they’ll consider the fact that you can get along with a number of different teammates, so just do what you love and the scholarships will come.
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