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The Loss of Play in Organized Youth Sports
… essential in cognitive development. In organized youth sports children no longer have this opportunity to freely play. Athletics are regimented and restricted in ways that do not allow children to personally experience the sport at an intrinsic level. Young athletes are taught at an early age the …
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The Loss of Play in Organized Youth Sports
… essential in cognitive development. In organized youth sports children no longer have this opportunity to freely play. Athletics are regimented and restricted in ways that do not allow children to personally experience the sport at an intrinsic level. Young athletes are taught at an early age the …
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Effect of Attentional Focus on Learning and Performance in Youth Sports
<p>Youth athletes are different from adult and elite athletes in several domains that include cognitive resources, working memory, automaticity of motor movements, conscious control for propensity, attentional focus, and acquisition of motor-skills. Due to significant differences between athletes, …
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Understanding Parental Involvement in Youth Sports Through the Concept of Serious Leisure
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Successful Youth Sports Complexes in Small Communities
… investigation into the makings of a successful youth baseball facility. Youth sports is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and much of the competition follows a tournament, or "travel league" format. This is especially true in youth baseball. Despite this growing trend towards …
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Preferred Coaching Styles in Youth Sports: A Qualitative inquiry of Soccer Players from Generation Z
Generation Z is the up and rising youth of our time. Its members are said to be those born after 2000 until the year 2025. Research has shown that each generation is different due to the events they experience in their lifetime. Although Generation Z is young, it is important to begin understanding …
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The role of self-efficacy, social norms, involvement, and comics in promoting parent-child sport-related concussion communication in youth sports
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Goal Setting in Sports: Increasing the Rate of Dribbling a Basketball
Many children participate in organized sports, and sports practice settings serve as an occasion both for the development of sports skills and for social skills. Because of this, youth sports coaching practices may be considered a particularly important factor in child development. Research in the …
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Taking the 'Sport' out of Sports Parenting: Toward a Theory of Sport Related Parent-Child Communication Competency
… of the forty million children who participate in youth sports will quit by age 13. This study utilized a constructivist grounded theory approach to investigate the role of parent-child communication within the context of youth sports. A total of 22 athletes and 20 parents were recruited through a …
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Female parent-coach experiences coaching daughters in youth sport
… PARENT-COACH EXPERIENCES COACHING DAUGHTERS IN YOUTH SPORTByCassandra J. Coble The purposes of this study were to examine the experiences of mothers who enter the role of parent-coach. Using Eccles Expectancy Value Model of Achievement-Related Choices (1991, 1998, 2004) and Model of Parental …
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Does the Relative Age Effect Exist in Elite Sport? An Analysis of Olympic Competition
Studies have concluded that youth sports programs have a bias selection process in identifying player talent. Athletes that are identified as talented are more likely to be born in the first three months after the eligibility cut-off for a program's particular age group. This is referred to as the …
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The Effects of Sport Specialization on Adolescent Athletes
Youth sports continue to grow worldwide. With this continued rise in popularity, it is important to take the necessary precautions to ensure that all adolescent athletes can enjoy sports with as little risk as possible. Sport specialization has also seen a rise in numbers among adolescent athletes, …
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Head Impact Exposure in Youth Football: Evaluation of Practice Drills and Age and Weight Based Levels of Play
… is needed to study head impact exposure in the youth population as it makes up the largest proportion of football athletes in the U.S. with approximately 3.5 million participants. A small number of studies have begun to examine head impact exposure in youth football and have shown that youth …
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The social costs and benefits of volunteering for a public agency
… many benefits for children who participate in youth sports. However, little research has been conducted to examine the experiences of parent volunteer coaches. The lack of research on parent volunteers is particularly surprising given the increased importance of volunteers for many municipal …
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Exploration of Factors Influencing Sports Snacks Decisions Among Parents and Coaches of Young, Recreational Soccer Players
Background Organized sports offer an opportunity to promote physical activity and healthy eating. However, current data suggest that youth sports settings may not necessarily provide these benefits. In one study, youth were sedentary nearly half of a soccer match and in another foods and beverages …
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Nutrition Composition of Snacks Offered to Young Recreational Soccer Players
… that children are influenced by their peers. Youth sports are a very popular venue for children and opportunity for physical activity, with soccer becoming one of the most popular sports among young children in the US. Youth sports, especially soccer, can be a powerful tool for promoting …
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The influence of sport type and interdependence on the growth experiences of young male athletes
… of enjoyment and burnout. Athletes completed the Youth Experiences Survey 2.0 (Hansen & Larson, 2005), Athlete Burnout Questionnaire (Raedeke & Smith, 2001), Sources of Enjoyment in Youth Sport Questionnaire (Wiersma, 2001), and a newly developed scale assessing interdependence. Hierarchical …
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