STHM 1211 Lecture 18: Sport 18
6 May 2018
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• Athlete-organized
o Emphasize individual expression
o Lots of action for all players
o Flexible rules
o Playing and spending time with friends
o Freedom from adult interference or criticism
o Results soon forgotten
• Adult-organized
o Concerned with
▪ Skills of the sport
▪ Rules of the sport
▪ Proper playing of positions
▪ Obedience to adult directions, strategy, and training methods
▪ Represents one of the causing factors for decreases in physical activity
and increases in obesity.
o Current Status
▪ About half of U.S. kids are engaged in organized youth sports.
▪ Team sports participation peaks at age 11.
• Possible reasons?
▪ More than 70% drop out along with way to high school.
▪ Yet researchers hae’t figured out h…
o Reasons for Dropout/lower participation rates
▪ Structural reasons
▪ Weeding out
▪ Lack of trained coaches
▪ Structural reasons
▪ Expense and economic recession
▪ Families are spending as much as 10% of their income on youth sports
(Barone, 2017).
▪ An average family spends $2,292 per year on sports.
▪ Interpersonal reasons (children-parents)
• Emphasis on winning
• Stress placed on high performance, early specialization in one
sport
• Increased injuries
• Early starting age leads to greater burnout
• Suburban living (lack of friends to participate with)
▪ Intrapersonal reason (children themselves)
• Interests in alternative sports
• Other entertainments (e.g., video games)
• Youth Sport as an Industry
o Is a multibillion industry today ($7 - $15 billion).
o Youth sport tourism ($9 billion is spent per year).
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