Percentage players who play winter sports.

We have a TON of kids who do multiple sports. I think it's a great thing. Go be an athlete all school year, and we'll take you when you free-up at the end of June. Those kids can still lift...but at the HS level, don't ever make the mistake of thinking that doing athletic things is worse than lifting 2-3 days per week and doing nothing else. Besides, most of those kids lift, except for the basketball kids who's coach thinks lifting is bad for you.

We have a ton of kids in basketball and wrestling right now. The wrestling HC is our Freshman football OC...and he has those kids wrestle UP weight, and they lift their asses off in-season. Track lifts twice per week. Hockey (have 2 or 3 kids there) lifts 2 times per week.

In the spring, we have a ton of kids who play baseball and lacrosse. Those kids always make our sessions, unless they have away games during the time we're open. They'll even come in after home games if time permits.

I love that we have multi-sport athletes. I'm strongly against "specializing" in high school. Get out and live life!

I don't know...on a fairly small football roster (40 kids maybe) 6-8 in hoops, 6-8 in wrestling, 2-3 in winter track and 2-3 in hockey.

I just looked at our roster for this topic. As of now, our HC is listing 29 kids as last fall's seniors have been taken off, but the incoming freshmen haven't been added yet, not that we'd know for sure who they are yet anyway.

Of the 29, I came up with 5 kids who do a winter sport only, 4 who do a spring sport only, but then 5 more who do both. And, I may have missed a freshmen or two who will be doing something in the spring. So, basically, half our current roster does at least one other sport.

I did not coach for the program last year and have not been board approved for this year and last year was the HC's first year, so quite frankly I don't know what the HC does about it!

70-80% of our kids play a winter sport! All athletes lift all year round in Class! High School athletes need to lift all year, because they are not strong enough to specialize in one sport and not lift through a season. I don't have any research to back it up, but in my 7 years of experience of teaching in the weight room, almost al of the serious injuries at my school have come from kids that either refuse to get into the weight room, or they are by kids that only play one sport and they play it all year round, so they are over use injuries.

We make all FB players that are not involved in a winter sport come in after school twice a week and do speed and agility training, with a little extra lifting sometimes.

We can't make Off-Season lifting mandatory, nor would we.

We don't have lifting classes. Our players not in a winter or spring sport come in and lift after school.

Some of our players who are in-season lift too if they have a late practice.

But lifting's different than doing sports-specific drills or even competing in a second sport during a season.

We tell our guys that if they are playing baseball or hockey, doing basketball or wrestling workouts during Football season, they will be dropped from the team.

not including seniors...we have 109 kids in the program...24 kids playing a winter sport...that # will go up to about 35 in the spring

From sophomore to senior we have about 40 athletes and only 5 (four linemen and a linebacker) of them are not in another sport. Wreslters have the option to lift with us until four when their assistant coaches show up so we get 2 of our linemen during that time. We do not have strength and conditioning classes but we will be bring them back next year at our school for athletes only during 6th and 7th periods, which will be huge for us.

We do encourage our kids to be in other sports because we like for them to be in team building and competitive situations. Out of our freshmen and non winter athlete kids we get about 15 kids a day in the weightroom. This number seems insanely low for me but this is my first off season with them and they have never had an organized weightroom program before. Other schools I have been at that have had success have always bad 30-40+ in the winter and spring.

Out of out (initial) 24 player roster, 20 of them are playing basketball right now. Come spring, 5 of them might be participating in track. The rest will be involved in traveling basketball teams where they practice once a week (shoot around in the gym for an hour) and then miss 1-2 days of school a week going to tournaments.

Most of the football players have a weight training class during the school year, which is great. But, they lose most of what they have gained by sitting on their a$$es all summer.

We don't have very many participating in winter sports - two varsity guys playing basketball, two JV guys playing JV basketball, three or four frosh playing frosh bball; one or two wrestlers, 20+ guys participating in winter track.

We don't have any issues with lifting as our athletic department is all on the same page in terms of lifting/speed & conditioning. Our OL Coach is coaching the throwers in track so they're working on their strength daily.

I am surprised to hear about some of the schools w/o strength and conditioning classes. We are a big school that has eight sections of S&C... some of the other schools in our county have 13 and 14 S&C sections.

Here in Canada, most of our football players are multi-sport athletes. In fact, we usually get them to football after they have been in other sports - football is rarely their first stop.

I really dislike coaches in any youth sport who discourage a kid from playing multiple sports. They only get one childhood, and this should be their opportunity to spread their wings and play as many sports as possible. Lord knows that this time in their lives will fly by quickly. Who am I to tell a kid that he can't go have fun at another sport? I find that to be a very narrow, selfish, and negative perspective.

Here's the best part - because we take a very open attitude to multi-sport athletes, the kids love being in our program, and we generate a lot of positive buzz as a result. (We all know that the kids themselves are your best recruiters.) Funny how that works...

Coachhart,
I'm envious. I worked hard to get our athletic program on the same page but the resistance and ignorance caused me to just push my players. I would need more AD support for it to happen. In my 30 years of coaching and teaching I've never been part of a unified athletic program. It would be alot less stressful to know that the other coaches support a 4 year plan of growth for all of our athletes.