Music and Athletics

SpiritManager
Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:43:45 +0000

lastbird - my son is now going into his 4th year at Bard (of a five year program.) Amazing how time passes! He hasn’t played baseball there in a few years - but he did end up playing on their first ever club team his freshman year - which they started right when he got there. (They have an actual Div III team now.) Unfortunately, after the first year, all his many rehearsals conflicted with the practices, and games conflicted with concerts, and he gave up baseball for music.

He did play in a summer adult league the last few summers - but this year he thought he had too many composition deadlines, as well as a residency at a New Music Festival, and so didn’t play. So this was his first year without baseball - and he swears it won’t happen again. He misses it too much - so next summer, adult league again :)

I love that Olympic story. So great to see some kids can just have it all!