<p>Well…I do think serious musicians should not play contact sports, not if they are really trying to pursue music at a conservatory level or beyond. The risk of injury is great, and the hands and wrists really are delicate. My son fractured his wrist as a little guy, long before he was a serious musician, and he still has to be careful with it, because wrists refracture again with little effort. </p>
<p>Usually by high school, kids will have chosen a path of sorts by themselves, and won’t need much steering. Most of the kids we know who did both contact sports and music chose one or the other in high school, particularly if they planned to study performance music seriously. The two simply do not go hand in hand (so to speak! :))</p>