The travel teams are turning into a true business. "The cost for parents is steep. At the high end, families can spend more than 10% of their income on registration fees, travel, camps and equipment.". According to WinterGreen Research the U.S. youth-sports industry is now a $15.3 billion market. This includes the travel teams, specialized ...
The Trouble with Travel Sports
Here is how I believe the new approach to youth sports is negatively affecting us: 10. New School Approach helps build awesome sports culture, but is not healthy for families. Having a travel soccer league or baseball league in middle school helps build a powerhouse program in high school.
Opinion
The difference between the haves and have-nots when it comes to youth sports are bracing: 34.1 percent of kids from the poorest families were on sports teams or had coaching outside of school ...
Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline
The travel team environment ramped up, things became privatized, and it fell down to about 37, 38 percent of kids ages 6 to 12 played sports in 2014 or so. Now since then, it's kind of leveled ...
Income Inequality Explains the Decline of Youth Sports
Just 34 percent of children from families earning less than $25,000 played a team sport at least one day in 2017, versus 69 percent from homes earning more than $100,000. In 2011, those numbers ...
Rise in travel teams has changed youth sports
Players travel long distances to participate in games, tournaments and showcase events. The youth sports market in the U.S. topped $19 billion annually before the pandemic, according to a study by ...
What are the pros and cons of travel sports teams?
U.S. youth athletes practicing over three consecutive hours are 125% more prone to burnout. Over 45% of specialized youth athletes quit due to burnout. Burnout in children playing travel sports surged by 50% in 2017. Athletes training over 16 hours weekly with inadequate sleep face a 70% higher risk of burnout.
Why Have We Allowed Money to Ruin Youth Sports?
The first is money. The seeds of this were planted in the '70s, when we had a bad recession and public funding for parks and recreation departments declined. Then girls sports really picked up ...
Stealing home: How travel teams are eroding community baseball
A sense of community is being lost as travel teams lure young players away from local baseball teams. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) By David Mendell. May 23, 2014 at 4:55 p.m. EDT ...
Insider: Families weigh pros, cons of travel sports' growing role
The youth sports world has changed dramatically since I grew up in the 1980s and '90s. All the way through my senior year of high school, I played football, basketball and baseball.
Readers Respond: Income Inequality and Youth Sports
American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports. As young athletes from well-off families join expensive travel leagues, Derek Thompson argued recently, local leagues are left with fewer players ...
Should your kids play on a travel team? A guide for sports parents
The youth ages: You may not need a travel team. Don't fall into the trap. Travel ball for pre-middle school kids is not a make-or-break step for a kid achieving success at a sport in high school ...
Travel sports don't have to eat up your parenting life.
That means the decision to join a travel team is most often made by well-meaning parents for their young children, rather than by ambitious teen athletes for themselves. Instead of a travel-team ...
Youth Recreational Sports Programs Are Disappearing
The Aspen Institute's 2019 State of Play report found that in 2018, 22% of kids ages 6 to 12 in households with incomes under $25,000 played sports on a regular basis, compared to 44% of kids from ...
The Socioeconomics of Travel Sports: Are They for Kids or Parents?
General Sports. Sports Parents. Travel sports are all too often a socioeconomic status symbol for parents. For those that truly believe it's the best thing for their eight, nine and 10 year olds, it's often a delusion. I've seen this in rec baseball leagues, where the focus is packing as many games into a summer season as possible, with ...
Don't Let Youth Sports Hijack Your Life
Specialization also makes kids more susceptible to burnout. According to the National Alliance for Sports, a staggering 70 percent of kids who play competitive sports burn out and quit by the time ...
Are Club/Travel Teams Ruining High School Sports Teams?
Nov 18, 2022. 1. I have been coaching high school softball for the past twelve years in a medium sized rural school district. In my early years of coaching I had maybe 2-3 players at each level ...
Travel teams have ruined our local little league and I fear my ...
Travel sports are terrible all around in my opinion. I think youth sports is pretty broken all around. We live in a small town, when we moved here my son was 6 and wanted to play soccer. The rec league was big enough to have two teams for our town. It was very clear they divided the kids into the good team and the bad team.
Why youth sports drive parents crazy and 10 more lessons from a mom who
Especially considering what we're paying for the experience: door fees, endless fundraisers, private trainers and, for many, the expense of travel teams. Youth sports is big business, leveraging ...
ESPN: Are youth sports ruining childhoods?
Everyone's convinced that the youth sports arms race is ruining our kids (and our country). life can be summed up in one word: soccer. At the age of 2, his mother enrolled him in a toddler soccer ...
Moscow, Utah to Host Youth Games
Associated Press Writer. Currently Reading. Moscow, Utah to Host Youth Games
Ukraine crisis: Which sports have banned Russian athletes?
World Rowing has banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its international competitions with immediate effect. Volleyball's world governing body (FIVB) has cancelled the men's ...
COMMENTS
The travel teams are turning into a true business. "The cost for parents is steep. At the high end, families can spend more than 10% of their income on registration fees, travel, camps and equipment.". According to WinterGreen Research the U.S. youth-sports industry is now a $15.3 billion market. This includes the travel teams, specialized ...
Here is how I believe the new approach to youth sports is negatively affecting us: 10. New School Approach helps build awesome sports culture, but is not healthy for families. Having a travel soccer league or baseball league in middle school helps build a powerhouse program in high school.
The difference between the haves and have-nots when it comes to youth sports are bracing: 34.1 percent of kids from the poorest families were on sports teams or had coaching outside of school ...
The travel team environment ramped up, things became privatized, and it fell down to about 37, 38 percent of kids ages 6 to 12 played sports in 2014 or so. Now since then, it's kind of leveled ...
Just 34 percent of children from families earning less than $25,000 played a team sport at least one day in 2017, versus 69 percent from homes earning more than $100,000. In 2011, those numbers ...
Players travel long distances to participate in games, tournaments and showcase events. The youth sports market in the U.S. topped $19 billion annually before the pandemic, according to a study by ...
U.S. youth athletes practicing over three consecutive hours are 125% more prone to burnout. Over 45% of specialized youth athletes quit due to burnout. Burnout in children playing travel sports surged by 50% in 2017. Athletes training over 16 hours weekly with inadequate sleep face a 70% higher risk of burnout.
The first is money. The seeds of this were planted in the '70s, when we had a bad recession and public funding for parks and recreation departments declined. Then girls sports really picked up ...
A sense of community is being lost as travel teams lure young players away from local baseball teams. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) By David Mendell. May 23, 2014 at 4:55 p.m. EDT ...
The youth sports world has changed dramatically since I grew up in the 1980s and '90s. All the way through my senior year of high school, I played football, basketball and baseball.
American Meritocracy Is Killing Youth Sports. As young athletes from well-off families join expensive travel leagues, Derek Thompson argued recently, local leagues are left with fewer players ...
The youth ages: You may not need a travel team. Don't fall into the trap. Travel ball for pre-middle school kids is not a make-or-break step for a kid achieving success at a sport in high school ...
That means the decision to join a travel team is most often made by well-meaning parents for their young children, rather than by ambitious teen athletes for themselves. Instead of a travel-team ...
The Aspen Institute's 2019 State of Play report found that in 2018, 22% of kids ages 6 to 12 in households with incomes under $25,000 played sports on a regular basis, compared to 44% of kids from ...
General Sports. Sports Parents. Travel sports are all too often a socioeconomic status symbol for parents. For those that truly believe it's the best thing for their eight, nine and 10 year olds, it's often a delusion. I've seen this in rec baseball leagues, where the focus is packing as many games into a summer season as possible, with ...
Specialization also makes kids more susceptible to burnout. According to the National Alliance for Sports, a staggering 70 percent of kids who play competitive sports burn out and quit by the time ...
Nov 18, 2022. 1. I have been coaching high school softball for the past twelve years in a medium sized rural school district. In my early years of coaching I had maybe 2-3 players at each level ...
Travel sports are terrible all around in my opinion. I think youth sports is pretty broken all around. We live in a small town, when we moved here my son was 6 and wanted to play soccer. The rec league was big enough to have two teams for our town. It was very clear they divided the kids into the good team and the bad team.
Especially considering what we're paying for the experience: door fees, endless fundraisers, private trainers and, for many, the expense of travel teams. Youth sports is big business, leveraging ...
Everyone's convinced that the youth sports arms race is ruining our kids (and our country). life can be summed up in one word: soccer. At the age of 2, his mother enrolled him in a toddler soccer ...
Associated Press Writer. Currently Reading. Moscow, Utah to Host Youth Games
World Rowing has banned Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from its international competitions with immediate effect. Volleyball's world governing body (FIVB) has cancelled the men's ...