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2014年12月13日Is a culture of competition hurting Iowa youth sports
Active kids in Iowa are still easy to find, but keeping them participating in numbers is more difficult. This story opens a six part summer series examining the youth sports culture in Iowa.
Members of the Cedar Johnny Manziel Jersey Valley youth soccer team of Cedar Falls huddle during a game against Des Moines in a recent tournament at Cownie Sports Complex. The involved nature of club sports that deters some youths helps others thrive.(Photo: Bryon Houlgrave/The Register)Buy PhotoIt’s all fun and games until Iowa kids learn how to win.
Then it’s about the power, business and lifestyle of youth sports.
The Register’s first of six entries into a summer long examination of youth sports in Iowa goes back to the start of every athletic endeavor the decision to participate.
Iowa parents don’t expect that tossing a ball around the backyard with their toddler will directly lead to Olympic glory, but organization, time and money have quickly turned recreation into a competition.
The person in charge of high school girls’ sports state wide has seen a shift in youth sports culture, from his time as a coach and game official to his last six years at the helm.
"Youth sports are good when done in moderation and kept in perspective," said Mike Dick, executive Derek Carr Youth Jersey director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU). "It scares me when I see it overdone and pushed on them."
Active kids in Iowa are still easy to find.
Keeping them participating in numbers is more difficult.
BURNING OUT
Even if rural Iowa T ball isn’t as hotly contested as the state high school track meet he’s coaching, Drew Clevenger knows the competition will ramp up as each year passes.
The St. Ansgar varsity football and track coach is a father of three, with an 8 year old girl playing softball and a 6 year old boy who’s starting his baseball career.
"I want my kids to enjoy sports," Clevenger said. "So whenever they’re ready, both me and my wife will encourage them and work with them."
He wants his kids out on the field for the obvious positives that organized sports can provide: social development, motor skills, psychological well being and physical activity.
Iowans sign up for those benefits at a greater ratio than do kids across the country. But a 2013 article from the Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine (OAJSM) shows that nationally, 70 to 80 percent will quit sports by the time they are 15 years old.
"Many times, youth sports are just winning and losing," Dick said. "It scares me to death when I see 7 and 8 year olds on an elite traveling team, with their starting lineup picked out for the next eight years. It leaves kids out, it makes kids get discouraged and quit and when later on they grow or develop, they’ve already given up."
The National Federation of State High School Associations lists Iowa 19th in total athletic participation, despite being 30th in the nation in population.
Iowa gets high marks in girls’ golf, wrestling, baseball and softball.
But while the state’s population has grown at a 1.4 percent rate over the past three years, according to census data, Iowa’s total participation number in high schools is down more Johnny Manziel Browns Jersey than 16,000, or roughly 10 percent from 156,972 to 140,939 in the past five years.
"We try to make kids realize that athletics in Iowa are special to be a part of," Dick said. "It filters down generations, and that contributes greatly to what we’re able to do. It’s a long term culture thing, and our hope is that it continues."Participation numbers nationwide for "Generation Z" individuals born since 2000, for the purposes of a Physical Activity Council study have come back positive, especially in outdoor and www.officialfootballjaguars.com/Nike-Blake-Bortles-Jersey.html team sports.
The council’s study measures Derek Carr Jersey rates of sports and recreation participation.
Colorado and Utah were the most active states. Iowa joined border states Nebraska and Wisconsin in the study’s second tier those ranked ninth through 16th in healthy activity levels.
In Iowa, around 36 percent of respondents said they participated in a high intensity sport or activity at least 151 times a year.
Active kids in Iowa are still easy to find, but keeping them participating in numbers is more difficult. This story opens a six part summer series examining the youth sports culture in Iowa.
Members of the Cedar Johnny Manziel Jersey Valley youth soccer team of Cedar Falls huddle during a game against Des Moines in a recent tournament at Cownie Sports Complex. The involved nature of club sports that deters some youths helps others thrive.(Photo: Bryon Houlgrave/The Register)Buy PhotoIt’s all fun and games until Iowa kids learn how to win.
Then it’s about the power, business and lifestyle of youth sports.
The Register’s first of six entries into a summer long examination of youth sports in Iowa goes back to the start of every athletic endeavor the decision to participate.
Iowa parents don’t expect that tossing a ball around the backyard with their toddler will directly lead to Olympic glory, but organization, time and money have quickly turned recreation into a competition.
The person in charge of high school girls’ sports state wide has seen a shift in youth sports culture, from his time as a coach and game official to his last six years at the helm.
"Youth sports are good when done in moderation and kept in perspective," said Mike Dick, executive Derek Carr Youth Jersey director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union (IGHSAU). "It scares me when I see it overdone and pushed on them."
Active kids in Iowa are still easy to find.
Keeping them participating in numbers is more difficult.
BURNING OUT
Even if rural Iowa T ball isn’t as hotly contested as the state high school track meet he’s coaching, Drew Clevenger knows the competition will ramp up as each year passes.
The St. Ansgar varsity football and track coach is a father of three, with an 8 year old girl playing softball and a 6 year old boy who’s starting his baseball career.
"I want my kids to enjoy sports," Clevenger said. "So whenever they’re ready, both me and my wife will encourage them and work with them."
He wants his kids out on the field for the obvious positives that organized sports can provide: social development, motor skills, psychological well being and physical activity.
Iowans sign up for those benefits at a greater ratio than do kids across the country. But a 2013 article from the Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine (OAJSM) shows that nationally, 70 to 80 percent will quit sports by the time they are 15 years old.
"Many times, youth sports are just winning and losing," Dick said. "It scares me to death when I see 7 and 8 year olds on an elite traveling team, with their starting lineup picked out for the next eight years. It leaves kids out, it makes kids get discouraged and quit and when later on they grow or develop, they’ve already given up."
The National Federation of State High School Associations lists Iowa 19th in total athletic participation, despite being 30th in the nation in population.
Iowa gets high marks in girls’ golf, wrestling, baseball and softball.
But while the state’s population has grown at a 1.4 percent rate over the past three years, according to census data, Iowa’s total participation number in high schools is down more Johnny Manziel Browns Jersey than 16,000, or roughly 10 percent from 156,972 to 140,939 in the past five years.
"We try to make kids realize that athletics in Iowa are special to be a part of," Dick said. "It filters down generations, and that contributes greatly to what we’re able to do. It’s a long term culture thing, and our hope is that it continues."Participation numbers nationwide for "Generation Z" individuals born since 2000, for the purposes of a Physical Activity Council study have come back positive, especially in outdoor and www.officialfootballjaguars.com/Nike-Blake-Bortles-Jersey.html team sports.
The council’s study measures Derek Carr Jersey rates of sports and recreation participation.
Colorado and Utah were the most active states. Iowa joined border states Nebraska and Wisconsin in the study’s second tier those ranked ninth through 16th in healthy activity levels.
In Iowa, around 36 percent of respondents said they participated in a high intensity sport or activity at least 151 times a year.
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