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The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization based in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.. NAYS provides a variety of programs and services for everyone involved in youth sports, including professional and volunteer administrators, volunteer coaches, officials, parents and young athletes.
Youth sports. Youth sports is any sports event where competitors are younger than adult age, whether children or adolescents. Youth sports includes school sports at primary and secondary level, as well as sports played outside the education system, whether informally or organized. In sports studies and public policy contexts, an age limit of 18 ...
3. Parents, don't instruct kids during games. "Leave the players alone! The amount of times that parents shout incorrect tactical advice to their child is way too high,” says Bryan Wokich, a U7 ...
The AAU Junior Olympic Games are known as the largest national multi-sport event for youth in the United States. It has become the showcase event of the AAU Sports Program. Recent hosts include Des Moines, Iowa; Greensboro, North Carolina; Hampton Roads, Virginia; Houston, Texas; and Detroit, Michigan in 2017.
The term "sports-based youth development program" was coined in 2006 at a summit sponsored by Harvard University's Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency (PEAR), Positive Learning Using Sports (PLUS), and the Vail Leadership Institute. SBYD programs were defined as programs that “use a particular sport… to facilitate learning and ...
2019. Founder. Ben Sherwood, Reed Shaffner. MOJO Sports is a Los Angeles-based youth sports technology and media platform that provides coaching instruction, team management tools and multimedia sharing to coaches, athletes and families involved with the five major youth sports: soccer (football), flag football, basketball, baseball and softball.
“Resistance training is in many ways the true fountain of youth,” Bamman said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I like to say the fountain of youth is the water cooler in the gym ...
Early sports specialization is the phenomenon of a child or teenaged athlete intensively pursuing a single sport or athletic activity year-round, instead of participating in a wide variety of activities. Premature emphasis on a single sport is associated with physical injuries, mental health problems, and psychosocial harm to young athletes. [1]