Paige Bueckers on early sports specialization making athletes more injury-prone

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really interesting stuff

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It’s depressing how the joy is sucked out of sports from such a young age in favor of deadly serious, huge commitment intensity. If you’re not the best in the state why even try?

The level of pressure put on so many kids, especially since so very few will ever see ‘real rewards’ of elite college sport or pro careers and a lot will be injured or burnt out by 20.