I have been a serious athlete since I was eight, when I started to play travelling softball. However, I didn’t just play softball. I also played soccer, volleyball, basketball, and danced. All of those other activities, competitive or not, helped me become a great athlete. Playing multiple sports can help people build different sets of muscles, be a better team player, and truly enjoy what they are doing. Many studies have shown that specializing in one sport at a young age actually hurts a child’s chance to truly be the best they could be in that sport. Playing multiple sports will help build different muscles that kids are not always using in their main sport. There are countless areas that some sports hardly work but if them did they …show more content…
When someone is constantly doing the same thing over and over again, even if it is something they love, they will get tired of it. The countless hours of training, private lessons, team practices, and tournaments causes a lot of stress. This stress is not only on the body, but on the mind as well. Continually thinking about improving could cause your skills to decline because of all the pressure. My experiences playing travel softball since eight years old have made me into the player and person I am today, but I no longer play because of how much pressure and time commitment it was. Volleyball was one sport I really enjoyed playing not competitive, just passing the ball back and forth. When I was cut from the team my junior year of high school I played more softball instead of it and that is when I lost the love of softball. Constantly getting the same corrections will make you better for the same play but not for a different one. My senior year I decided that I did not want to play softball in college whether I received an offer or not. I believe if I would have played other sports my last two years of high school I might at a completely different school playing softball, however, I do not regret my decision because it was what was best for