Regardless of income level, all these studies show kids benefit in many ways when they participate in sports. The Teen Sport report showed boys are much more likely to play multiple sports than girls, according to Snyder.
Snyder said girls are participating in a wider variety of sports, including some nontraditional sports for girls, pointing to the growing popularity of girls flag football in Florida as an example.
But recruiting female coaches is difficult. No, moms can absolutely coach. She added that several other organizations are doing similar work, and these programs are growing. Solomon said Project Play wants to educate the public, particularly parents, about the benefits of sports and about ways to encourage kids to participate. One such resource is the Healthy Sport Index , an online tool that helps assess the relative benefits and risks of the 10 most popular high school sports.
It looks at the level of physical activity, safety and psychosocial benefits emotional, social and mental well-being each sport offers. But was the World Cup enough to make girls feel like they belong in sports? The stakes are high. If girls eschew sports, they lose the advantages their peers gain from sports.
Kids who play sports stay in school, they have higher aspirations for college, and they get better grades in high school. Some positive news for football: High school participation shrunk again in , but at a much slower rate than in previous years, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations. But the drop was much less than 23,, 20, and 30, Even before the pandemic, the youth sports ecosystem lost almost 3 million kids during the transition from elementary to middle school ages.
No sport lost more kids by middle school than baseball, with almost 2 million fewer participants for ages than ages The challenge of stemming those losses is structural: Little League and other forms of community-based play are dominant through age 13, at which point the competitive pitching level increases, players transition to larger fields and travel teams come to dominate the landscape.
Some sports are intentionally formatted as physically better suited for younger kids gymnastics while some are designed more for older youth tackle football. Individual sports such as tennis, swimming and track and field gained participants by middle school. As youth sports organizations and schools likely experience participation declines due to COVID and the economy, could some sports dramatically change their playing models at earlier ages to get kids engaged sooner instead of waiting until the school setting?
Hockey and lacrosse were viewed as interesting alternatives for kids as they got older. Now the growth is stymied at older ages. However, the trend line is most concerning with youth who are Black, whose rates of participation have fallen the farthest since , when half of them played sports.
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