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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 1185117, member: 874"]
What's interesting about this is that year round participation in one sport prior to college is a recent phenomenon.  The best athletes used to be the kids that were multi-sport stars.  There are lots of recent studies indicating that focusing on one sport too early is contributing to an increase in over use injuries and early burnout among youth athletes.  Dr. James Andrews started looking at injuries among young athletes when he saw a spike in the number and type of surgeries he was performing on kids that he used to only perform on adults and has said that kids shouldn't focus on only one sport until their senior year in high school.

The sad part about your quote is that when kids aren't playing there organized sport they're sitting on their butts instead of finding other kids to do other active things with.  That's also contributing to the increase in youth sports injuries.  Kids aren't establishing proper movement patterns at early ages through free play.
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