Iowa High School BEDS count 24-25

[soccercy]

It would help if they condense some of these seasons a little more. For example baseball and softball should be playing their championship games over the 4th of July, not just starting the tournament then but finishing up. If that was the case, most teams would be finished by the first week of July and you could give them a no contact 14 days right there.

Hard to condense much, soccer is only a two month season for jv kids, 2.5 months if you play in state finals.

 

[1SEIACLONE]

Hard to condense much, soccer is only a two month season for jv kids, 2.5 months if you play in state finals.

You would have to look at it sport by sport, but many you could start and condense many of them. Football, start the zero week for every team would be a good start.

 

[BCClone]

I hear ya. My son played four sports in high school. Club basketball and USSSA baseball up until his freshman year. Ran at state track all four years. Deep post season runs every year in the other three sports with a state title. It's an extremely busy time of life. Seems the only coaches that didn't hog time 12 months a year were the football coaches. They wanted them to lift and try to do a team camp if possible. That's it. Baseball and Basketball wanted them doing things all year. I hear soccer and wrestling are just as bad if not worse.

Wrestling is not as bad as basketball but the timing of Freco wrestling is on top of a lot of stuff. Basketball is honestly stupid. Our daughter did AAU in 4/5 grade. It was too much and we quit AAU. She was fine for HS then. I would suggest though to have kids do a little AAU around that time as it will make them better ball handlers and that will carry them a long ways.

Football is the shortest demand but it can screw things up. Weight liftings biggest benefit is injury prevention and strength is the second one. Agility drills will help with balance and hand eye coordination.