Numerous authors have attempted to investigate the role of specialization on enhanced performance and progression to an elite level in order to determine if there is any benefit to specialization. Interestingly, multiple authors have studied elite athletes ranging from Swedish tennis players to German Olympians and have reported that elite athletes actually specialized to play their sport later in life, not earlier.7,10,15,23 Such consistency of findings over multiple decades within multiple populations argues against the common belief that early sports specialization provides athletes with enhanced performance and/or a greater likelihood of progression to an elite level.