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• Adults narrowing focus, too
  When he was starting out his coach career two decades ago at May River Academy, Dave Adams didn't have the luxury of an offseason. He jumped from sport to sport along with his players, with hardly any downtime between seasons.

• Specialize or branch out?
  On one hand, college recruiters scour offseason club and travel tournaments for potential recruits.

• Families bear expense of sports specialization
  When Judy Chin is serving martinis at Bonefish Grill and her husband, Stuart, is collecting tolls on the Cross Island Parkway, it's hard not to think about all the money they've spent on tennis.

• In a world of hurt
  Sure, his business is booming, but Dr. James Andrews wouldn't mind a downturn.

• Better late than never
  By JUSTIN JARRETT

• Some high schoolers still change with the seasons
  It was the summer before William Cubbage's freshman year of high school, and he was presented with a dilemma many young athletes eventually face: Did he want to continue playing a different sport in every season, or was it time to shift his focus to playing baseball year-round, in hopes of eventually landing a collegiate scholarship?

• Specializing brings risk of burnout
  Two years ago, Coley Davis had just wrapped up the best summer of his promising junior golf career, so by all means he should have been more excited than ever about playing golf.

• Researchers question effect of specialization on young athletes
  The Institute for the Study of Youth Sports at Michigan State University listed it among the "critical issues in youth sports," and the American Academy of Pediatrics put out a policy statement advising against it.

• Zeroed In: Academies provide intense training for young athletes
  The message at the bottom of the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy's Web site reflects what seems to be the prevailing theory behind the trend toward single-sport specialization among today's young athletes.

• High school ADs bemoan decline of multi-sport athletes
  Dave Adams sat in a crowded lecture hall last December in Nashville, Tenn., eagerly awaiting a discussion on a hot topic in high school sports: Single-sport specialization and the dwindling number of multi-sport athletes.