<p>i am a freshman and i am pretty good with golf and soccer. however, it seems like it is better to be excellent in one sport other than being just good in a lot of sports…</p>
<p>so between golf and soccer, which one should i develop/focus on more that is more appealing to Brown?</p>
<p>*i am very interested in both, they are really fun and challenging</p>
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<li>and correct me if im wrong about being excellent in one sport than being good in a number of sports thing…</li>
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<p>The best athletes are excellent in multiple sports. The football players who do best keep fit in the off season by playing lacrosse or basketball or wrestling. The best lacrosse players usually either practice year round, or play football in the off season.</p>
<p>There doesn’t seem to be a reason golf can’t help you with soccer, and soccer help you with golf (besides golf being a more relaxed sport, requiring less training).</p>
<p>If you’re athletic, and love sports, it’s better to show that by being in a sport every season then to be in only one sport. If you only LOVE one sport, and dedicate every waking moment to it, then maybe you should focus on that one sport. But if you like golf, and you try to dedicate all your time to soccer, it’s not going to work as well as if you “share” time. The sports will give you a break from each other.</p>
<p>being excellent won’t help you unless you are getting recruited. just play both sports.</p>
<p>^No, being good in at least one sport, loving it, and doing well will help with your application. It will definitely help more than doing nothing. However, cs is right to an extent: unless you’re recruited, it’s not a hook, but something that helps show your dedication. Like volunteering at a hospital, or playing piano, etc. etc.</p>
<p>cs is 100% right, if you aren’t being recruited, the adcom couldn’t care less whether you’re playing golf and soccer each 2x/week or doing one of them 4x/week.</p>
<p>chsowflflax17, are you speaking from experience because your thoughts sound very distorted to me? As a varsity DI athlete who just graduated from Brown I can assure you that while many of us played other sports intramurarlly, only a very, very select few played a 2nd sport on a competitive level. You simply don’t have enough time in the day to put in the effort required to compete at a high level in 2 sports. In fact, the only 2 sport varsity athlete I knew personally quit one of the sports after sophomore year.</p>
<p>Depends on your high school. I know lots of students who played varsity in more than one sport. I know kids who played varsity in three different sports (fall, winter and spring).</p>
<p>As for the poster’s question: as a freshman, you shouldn’t be focused on doing things to get into college. Play whatever sport(s) you want and worry about getting into college later.</p>
<p>I was thinking high school, as this kid is, not college. At the college level, I’d absolutely agree that very, very few (and only the truly exceptional) compete in two varsity sports. But in college you’ve developed your skills in high school, you’re among the best of the best. From experience, my high school football coaches always urged us to take up a winter sport to keep in shape, and to use a slightly different set of skills. Same thing with my lacrosse coaches: they loved having football players or wrestlers. In high school, you can do it, and may even be encouraged to. In college, probably not.</p>