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How young is too young?
June 28, 2006
I wrote a story about the popularity of softball pitching coaches in Albuquerque, and one of the area high school coaches startled me when he talked about getting his daughter started with a pitching coach around age 4 or 5. He recommended girls start getting this specialized instruction by age 6 or 7.
With the popularity of AAU and year-round clubs in most sports, how young is too young to start serious sports training? Fans love to read about recruits starting toting a basketball or football before they could walk, but do they risk burnout by the time they hit college if they start too soon?
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