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Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Crisis in Youth Sports

Derek Walmsley: I think what has reached a crisis point that there are great many very committed and altruistic people who are trying to figure this out. He says the vast, vast, vast majority of people who work in and around youth sports are in it for the right reasons.walmsley: The goal is not winning the game at six or seven, the point is development. There's an enormous amount of that a child can learn from that experience.

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