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Lots of teenagers have decided to specialize in a single sport, but there are plenty of great multisport athletes from the past to emulate.

Like Jackson, the 48-year-old grew up to be a multisport athlete, playing basketball and football at Huntington Beach High School and UC Berkeley and later playing 17 seasons in the NFL as a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Falcons.

He wanted to be a multisport athlete playing football and baseball.

He has a 3.8 grade-point average and used to be a multisport athlete until focusing on football.

Gottlieb did coach U.S. teams to gold medals in the 2017 and 2022 Maccabiah Games, an international multisport event for Jewish athletes.