Competitiveness in Youth Sports Karen Clark, Starr Walker, Danielle Veney SOC/105 February 25, 2013 Carol French Competitiveness in Youth Sports Sports are way for young adults to exercise and build character. Two vital components among sports today are the love of the game, and a competitive spirit. It is these two components that enable children to learn many values that will aid. Sportsmanship, fair play, and integrity are just a few of these values. Finding a balance between the…
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Organized youth sports began in the late 19th century when it became mandatory that kids go to school. The schools needed something to fill up the free time. At first sports were leisure activities to keep kids busy, but eventually received structure because parents wanted their kids to be supervised. Over the next several years sport programs were established within school systems along with club organizations and thrived until the depression hit causing the club sports to close because of their…
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one-thousand dollars per child each year for them to play youth competitive sports. That is a lot of money for an activity! Youth competitive sports have been growing more and more expensive each year for coaching, lessons, and equipment. The people call it pay-to-play, but I call it pay to be played. Some people may argue that the sports are just the right amount of money, but I think not! Two reasons why I think youth competitive sports cost too much is because parents cannot afford it, and even…
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Most people today think sports are great for children based on the fact that it keeps them healthy, confident, and provides valuable life lessons like how to set goals and deal with adversity. Then again, there is always a group that doesn’t see the good in sports; they argue that sports cause injuries, stress, or even anger in extreme cases. The reason people are so negative about youth sports today is because of concussions. Most people have a handful of friends that have had more than two or three…
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Most people in society today think that sports are great for children in the fact that it keeps them healthy, confident, and gives them valuable life lessons such as how to set goals or how to deal with adversity. Then again there is always a group that doesn’t see the good in sports; they argue that it causes injuries, stress, or even anger in some cases. I believe that the reason people are so negative about youth sports today is because of the ever rising controversy of concussions. I personally…
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incorporates a variety of elements and affordable events for all seasons. d. The Sleepy Track Club advocates, supports, and elaborates about the sport of Track and Field. The Sleepy Track Club has a dynamic coaching staff that can coach and teach the technical aspects of track and field. Values: The values of our track and field program is a non-profit youth development organization which encourages participation in athletics and the deepest seated values for young people. This established program…
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basis of sex. I believe the commitment to initiating more coed sports could also help facilitate changing the perceptual norm of masculinity in sport. A study done by (Cohen et al) in which he used coed quidditch as a example, they showed positive signs when tracking the ability of young people to encourage coed sports and inclusion of the opposite sex. They showed that young people responded well to an organized form of coed sports that had many different variations of positions to thrive in with…
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Football--America’s Greatest Sport Football is a tradition that carries from state to state, like Wisconsin’s Jump Around or NFL on Thanksgiving Day. Every choice a person makes comes with consequences, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make that choice. Children have very free-spirited characters; they will do almost anything that makes them happy. Along with allowing a kid to participate in a sport they love, sports come with great benefits. “This year, 3 million kids from the ages of 6 to 14…
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children each year are hurt by playing sports. Out of those 3.5 million more than 775,000 of them are also including emergency room visits. That’s why injuries and concussions in youth competitive sports may outway the benefits. Concussions in youth competitive sports can be devastating and sometimes fatal. The article “Post-concussion return to learning also a tough decision” states, “...171 of the players or 13%-told the researchers that they had experienced a sports-related concussion in the previous…
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Statement of the problem: This paper will discuss the benefits of youth participation in sports mainly football and basketball since they are the easiest to do research on sin season. Our society promotes winners and competition. This is sometimes subtle as in a new father posting the weight of his newborn son on his social networking site to brag about how big he is, or not so subtle like the handing out of a championship ring after winning the NBA finals. Leadership is one of the most…
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