The Current Youth Sport Culture and its Impact on ...

Is Today's Youth Sport Culture Better/Worse Than Yesterday's?

Most of us over-schedule our kids. My other problem with current youth sports culture: every sport has become a year round sport. No more soccer ...

Journal of Athletic Training Releases Special Thematic Issue ...

The landscape of youth sports participation has drastically changed over the past 20 years. The emphasis has shifted from school-based ...

Promoting Physical Activity Through Youth Sports Programs: It's Social

Youth sport is a key physical activity opportunity for children and adolescents. Several factors influence youth sport participation, ...

Transforming Youth Sports Culture | A Team for Every Child

The youth sport industry has placed an increased emphasis solely on winning and achievement, creating an environment with high-stakes and high pressure that ...

The Business of Play: Youth Sports in America

In a healthy sports culture, children develop resiliency, commitment, teamwork, sportsmanship, and have an opportunity to get some much-needed physical activity ...

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on youth sport in Australia ...

The themes captured insights about a decline in mental wellbeing and physical activity, an increase in family connectedness, the challenge for ...

Promoting a culture change in junior and youth sport in New Zealand

The programme, subsequently named Good Sports, aimed to develop an adult education programme to initiate culture change and, ultimately, enhance junior and ...

A journey to elimination — rethinking youth sport culture for Northern ...

Allowing young athletes to see the relevance of their experiences in sport—such as resilience and persistence—fosters a lasting connection with ...

How Can Sports Benefit Young People - National Academy of Athletics

Youth sports can have many different positive effects. Children and youth between the ages of five and 17 should have a minimum of an hour of “moderate to ...

The Current Youth Sport Landscape: Identifying Critical Research ...

... culture issues (e.g., the professionalization of youth sport, child safety ... and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted ...

Sport Specialization and the Family: Examining the Effects Outside ...

The landscape of youth sports has changed significantly in the last 20 years with the emergence of club sports and more athletes focused on ...

Journal of Sport for Development | A peer-reviewed, open-access ...

Due to their importance in SFD research, the aspects of impacts and sustainability – which from an evaluation-theoretical perspective are subject of ex-post ...

What's the Goal of Youth Sports? - On Boys Podcast -

Because of the tremendous costs associated with many youth sports teams, many kids do not have an opportunity to play or participate. And many ...

Youth Sport Parenting: A Rational Approach

Clearly, the economics surrounding the youth sport industry suggest that sport organizations have a strong financial incentive to compete for youth athletes' ...

The continued importance of family sport culture ... - Semantic Scholar

ABSTRACT Growing up in a family with an affinity for sports increases the likelihood of participating in club-organised sports.

National Black Sport Participation and Physical Activity Report

Black youth, high school, and college athletes have been highly recognized for their athletic prowess across the U.S. Their successes include local, state, ...

Reconciling competition and positive youth development in sport

Essentially, in the context of youth sport, competition cannot be understood narrow-mindedly as an endeavour of triumphing over others but must be regarded as ...

High-pressure youth sports is bad for America - Slow Boring

Project Play found that “the average child today spends less than three years playing a sport, quitting by age 11.” After all, if what it means ...

Youth sports - Wikipedia

Sport can help those who haven't received a good start, and equip youth with the information, skills, personal and social resources, and support needed to make ...

Erin K. Howie 1 Promoting Physical Activity through Youth Sports ...

Overall, existing literature suggests an important role of family and peers on youth sport ... Sports competition and its influence on self-esteem development.