At Salt Lake Academy, we offer a wide variety of sports because, although we are a "soccer school", we don’t believe in sport specialization.
The American Journal of Sports Medicine has found that “kids who had higher levels of specialization were at about a 50 percent greater risk of having an injury”.
In addition to this finding, the American Academy of Pediatrics concluded “that delaying sport specialization for the majority of sports until after puberty (late adolescence—around 15 or 16 years of age) will minimize the risks and lead to a higher likelihood of athletic success."
We believe in this as well, having seen the trajectory of injuries skyrocket as sport specialization has become popular.