Next Post: Wednesday, June 8, 2016: Powerful Lifestyle Tips - Why Multisport (Triathlon) is Great for Kids Tip #7- Everyone Has a Chance to Participate
Very few elementary school athletes becomes a high school star. And if you're wondering about the chances of going on to play at the collegiate level, well they're certainly not great. Only 3% of high school senior basketball players will play NCAA sponsored basketball. Only less than 1% of high school football players out of an estimated pool of over 1,000,000 go on to play pro football. Achieving this type of success is clearly very limited to the smallest percentage of child athletes. Children who intensely specialize in one sport to the exclusion of others is not only setting themselves and sometimes their parents up for great disappointment, but the chance of "burn-out" and boredom is likely to be less when concentrating on a 3 discipline sport like triathlon.
Next Post: Wednesday, June 8, 2016: Powerful Lifestyle Tips - Why Multisport (Triathlon) is Great for Kids Tip #7- Everyone Has a Chance to Participate
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