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Multi-sport athletes opt for balance amid pressure to specialize early

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Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the Feb. 15 issue of Golfweek.

  • By Tracy Wilcox Davis Thompson, who has committed to Georgia to play golf, is a shooting guard for the Lee-Scott Academy basketball team.

Lee-Scott Academy’s Upper School in Auburn, Ala., consists of 327 students, and within its junior class, two golfers have committed to Wake Forest and Georgia, two of the South’s most storied programs. Turk Pettit and Davis Thompson have led Lee-Scott to two state championships in golf and have designs on a four-year sweep.