Balancing Soccer Clubs with multiple sports
How accommodating are your clubs with kids that play other sports, especially at the HS level. I have a high school girl that also plays basketball and a son that will be in HS soon that also play basketball and lax. She has to leave HS basketball early several times a week to get to soccer on time. Im a bit shocked the coach has not kicked her off the team yet. For my son, his club has been pretty accommodating, but we've had uncomfortable situations where club lax and club soccer conflicted. His lax club is a bit less forgiving. I'm interested in hearing how others navigate this.
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By HS it's past the time to pick a main sport. If you have a conflict, go with that. If you don't wan to worry about conflicts, scale back onto teams that will accommodate it.Originally posted by Guest View Post
There are clubs and teams with players looking to impress to go beyond HS and if you aren't as committed as they, it's affecting the rest of the players.
There is nothing wrong with that, everyone will stop playing at some point. But, the risk of being a jack of trades is that you are a master of none. -
For my daughter, it was all about communicating with the coaches. The HS coaches knew soccer was her #1 sport and were very accommodating on the other sports as long as she was communicating. The only problems she had were with her HS soccer coach and club soccer coach - both had different opinions on which team / practices / tournaments should come first (and almost everything else).Comment
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Won't vouch for NJ, but in many other states it's pretty clear: HS takes precedence. If you miss any HS soccer activity for another soccer activity, you will be banned two weeks.Originally posted by Guest View PostComment
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If the kid is really good, coaches accomodate more.Comment
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I have a kid who plays two high level club sports(soccer and lax, too) and also plays for their HS. It has become almost impossible to balance the two, but one of the clubs/coaches is more accommodating. If you can find one club/coach that is like that, it maybe doable, but just be prepared for other players/parents having a bit of an issue with them missing things and also getting playing time. The other club, if they miss they lose playing time.
Good luck-all these sports require so much commitment it is hard to be a multi sport athlete which we constantly hear is a "good thing" unless it interferes with "their" sport.Comment
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Not many coaches will accommodate and usually just for an occasional stud. Accommodate for too many and too many get angry or stop showing up regularly. Hs and top club coaches expect their teams to be your first priority. Multi sport athletes ofdo their 2nd sport at a much lower levelComment
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D's club at HS age pretty much shuts down for the fall season until everyone is done with county and state tournaments, and then is pretty forgiving in the winter for players who play basketball. Once the spring season rolls around, they tighten things up quite a bit and want the club team to be the priority.Comment
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I know from reading a few other boards in MA HS comes first,always, even practices. They also are essentially shut down in the fall. In CT clubs shut down completely because if you get caught doing club, ODP or other soccer related activity your HS forfeits games. Evidently the state follows through.Originally posted by Guest View Post
As for other sports it's really hard to do two at a "high level." Youth sports have become full year activities. My kids play other sports besides their primary ones, but the others are lower level or school teams (since theirc cub sports luckily start later in the day). They know if they miss they get benched for a bit or don't start.. No one appreciates coaches that forgive certain players but not others.Comment
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