Student athletes, their parents and their coaches also need to look at the technique of the sport as a means of preventing injury. If a tennis player holds a racket incorrectly, he can develop an elbow injury. The more frequently you perform an activity, the more careful you need to be to have a well-rounded program in order to allow muscles to rest. You need to get into not doing the sport every day. It s usually the students, not the coaches, who know when they re lacking a well-rounded program.
Kids are usually well aware.
Lopez is seeing specialization with youths participating in organized sports programs and summer camps which invite intense training and competition between youths across the country, often during seasons the particular sport is not usually played. Especially in basketball, soccer, softball and hockey, these programs, which offer varying skill levels for both boys and girls, run from April throughout the summer. Our students can travel all over the northeast, practicing and playing against other teams. The theory is that our kids need to be exposed to a higher skill level. There are good programs out there, with good coaches, but the problem is that a student who loves basketball won t go out for a spring sport if he can play basketball year-round.