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Among the report’s top youth sports trend to watch: Clark, the transcendent basketball star, might be helping shape the youth landscape in the near future.. Sports participation rates for girls ...
Across the country, youth sports are getting more expensive. "Oftentimes, I'll steer them in the direction of something that is used because they're less than half the prices," said David Westphal ...
High school sports participation hasn't reached parity among girls and boys. After the passage of Title IX in 1972, girls sports participation skyrocketed. But that growth started to plateau ...
Youth athletes at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics. Youth sports is any sports event where competitors are younger than adult age, whether children or adolescents.Youth sports includes school sports at primary and secondary level, as well as sports played outside the education system, whether informally or organized.
The gendered participation in youth sports is seen not only by the separating of boys and girls, but also in the roles of the adults who are contributing to the teams as volunteers. Messner and Bozada-Deas [ 4 ] studied yearbooks from a group of 538 youth baseball and softball teams and 1,490 from the American Youth Soccer Organization ( AYSO ...
The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.. NAYS provides a variety of programs and services for everyone involved in youth sports, including professional and volunteer administrators, volunteer coaches, officials, parents and young athletes.
After three kids' and 20 years' worth of youth sports, columnist Mary McNamara reflects on the real reason parents yell at the refs and other lessons she's learned along the way.
Youth participation in sports can influence high-risk health-related impacts for boys and girls. A 2000 study showed the relationship between participation in sports and health-related behaviors in US youth athletes. [16] Both boys and girls were more likely to eat fruits and vegetables and less likely to engage in smoking and illicit drug-taking.