Recently I read and article from ESPN W on multi sport athletes and why it is important to keep your options of sports open as a young athlete. The article stated that playing multiple sports allows for muscle recovery and lessens the chance for overuse injuries. It also discusses the different skill sets acquired in different sports and how learning something in one sport can carry over to help an athlete excel in other sports. The final important point the article emphasized was the exposure to different roles on a team that different sports let an athlete play. On the soccer team  you may play every minute of every game, but on the softball team you may play very little, but still be a key to the team at critical times. Each of these roles is a different mindset, and each teaches different lessons.

Upon reading this article, I immediately related it to sustainability of athletes. A sustainable athlete is one who can play many roles on a team, and has skills outside of the sport they are playing. This also has to do with injuries. If your muscles are tired, and you are prone to injury, you are not very sustainable as opposed to a strong athlete with well rested muscles. These relations to sustainability were the main reasons I chose to write on this article. I had originally thought of potentially writing on sustainability of athletes as I was a three sport athlete in high school, and I had the personal connection already. I would still like to in the future, and I feel having this information will be helpful if I choose to write on this subject.

Source: http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/17831948/5-reasons-want-your-kid-multi-sport-athlete