The Daily Republic article reflects Mitchell High School’s dedication to developing well-rounded student athletes by encouraging multi-sport participation. The coaches and leaders at the high school also discourage parents that want their children to specialize in sports at an early age. Our multi-sport data on the NFL Draft is cited in the article. The data […]
Discussion of two-sport athlete, Kent McKinney Jr. Article by Ryan Kuhn and photo credit Bryan Myrick http://www.dailyrecordnews.com/sports/kent-mckinney-jr-thrives-as-a-two-sport-athlete-for/article_022307c3-8b4d-5b21-b19c-f221421b8f66.html
As this year’s NFL Draft inches closer we take a look back at last year’s NFL Draft study and an article which used our numbers. The article, written by Jon Styf and Mike DeFabo, examined summer sports schedules of current high school athletes and whether those schedules promote specialization and discourage multi-sport participation. See the article […]
TrackingFootball hosted Texas High School Football Chat: Multi-Sport Participation Tracking Football – Multisport Participation Athletes need competition year round. The best way to accomplish this is by participating in DIFFERENT sports for the school during each season. Kids benefit athletically, socially, and mentally … TXHSFBCHAT.COM
Our hometown newspaper did a feature on TrackingFootball and the Player Athletic Index scoring system. East grads develop metric for gauging players’ ability Article brief: “In an era of specialization, multisport athletes have become fewer and fewer over the past couple of decades. But thanks to the work of a pair of Columbus East graduates, […]
ESPN’s Inside Slant by Kevin Seifert: Think specialization aids NFL draft journey? Think again.
Forbes blog article: What it means to youth sports that multi-sport athletes dominated the NFL Draft
USA Today’s article – No surprise here: Lots of prep multi-sport athletes in NFL Draft
High School multi-sport athletes dominate the NFL Draft
The value of multi-sport athletes, high school coaches share athletes