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Nike and the Tucker Center on Girls and Women in Sports are joining forces to help keep girls in sports. A 2022 survey by Women in Sports found that more than 1 million teenage girls, 43%, who ...
Sports participation rates for girls have gone up during Clark’s time at Iowa and the WNBA. Cove, of the Sports & Fitness Industry Association, believes she plays a role in the rise and compares ...
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 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.
It was also found that 26% of college athletes were moderately to severely inclined to seek mental health services. [16] Even more concerning, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among college sports participants, with 9% of athletes across all divisions of the NCAA feeling the need to pursue suicide prevention. [16]
Youth sports are racially and ethnically diverse. 15% of all girls and 16% of all boys who participate in sports are African-American. 17% of female athletes and 15% of male athletes are Hispanic, while Asian girls and boys comprise 8% and 12%, respectively, of children who play sports. And yet, proportionally fewer girls of color are involved ...
It came from college admission videos on social media. I don’t mean videos on essay writing tips, standardized test study hacks or the self-taped, quasi interviews attached to some applications.
“There’s no one to put the brakes on them,” says Joel Maxcy, a Drexel University economist who studies college sports. “There’s no one to say, ‘No, this is not a sound investment.’” A Hail Mary. Georgia State, a commuter college located in a largely vacant stretch of downtown Atlanta, had long resisted a move into big-time ...