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My normal advice would begin by asking what sport or sports he likes best and is good at but it sounds like he hasn't tried many yet? As you've mentioned, a large HS in CA. is going to have competitive teams in all the major sports so there may be an issue of making the team.
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That is exactly the situation. He won't make the team in the more popular sports that are skill based (baseball, basketball, etc) vs kids who have been doing those sports for many years.
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It's interesting that he has a background already in dance. One of the best athletes we ever saw in HS, (big football and track star, seriously fast), went on to be a big ballet star, top man in a prestigious company. Those guys are real athletes for sure.
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I wish there was a gymnastics program at his HS, but there isn't.
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One thing I would consider, unless my son was an absolute Sherman tank, is the potential for injuries in contact sports like football. I think that FB is a great team sport and I love it but the injuries these days even at the HS level are something to really think about.
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Agree, but probably moot for him.
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Baseball is a great game, (my favorite spectator sport), but if he has not been playing competitively since childhood there is no way he is going to play at a big HS. Same goes for many other sports.
I'd encourage him to start practicing some sports that he might like and have a chance of really playing at this school, he sounds athletically gifted enough. 
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We may start playing tennis again this summer and skiing in the winter (there was basically no skiing here last winter). Not that he's going to get on any tennis team, but what I hear about the HS ski and snowboard team sounds pretty good - I wonder if he could start doing it in his sophomore year. They take the bus up Mt Hood every Wednsday, ski and board in the afternoon and evening, do homework on the bus, and races are on weekends. Which suggests this could co-exist with theatre and dance fairly well. I'm sure he has the balance to ski well - I've never known a good skateboarder who wasn't at least "promising" as a skier or skateboarder.