As we bid farewell to 2017, revisit 10 pieces of original content about youth sports by The Aspen Institute. Happy new year!
* In our most-read piece of the year, NCAA vice presidents Oliver Luck and Brian Hainline wrote about why colleges need to help repair the “broken” youth sports model so kids play multiple sports: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/ncaa-vps-say-colleges-need-help-repair-broken-youth-sports-model/
*The need is clear for Project Play 2020, a new initiative with 17 organizations to grow national sport participation rates and related metrics among youth. Jon Solomon wrote about 7 charts that show why we need to fix youth sports: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/7-charts-show-fix-youth-sports/
* In the pay-to-play model of U.S. soccer, what are the answers to keep Latino youth in the game they love? Jon Solomon examined solutions on the ground: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/latinos-soccer-whats-us-model-theyre-not-left-behind/
* Tom Farrey wrote for the BBC News about the state of youth sports in America: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42329564
* Olympian Angela Ruggiero explained how esports can get kids physically active. Also learn about where sports technology is headed in this Q&A: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/esports-can-get-kids-physically-active/
* Rich Luker wrote that the longterm dilemma for esports is how to pass video games down by generation: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/dilemma-esports-pass-video-games-generation/
* Did you miss the 2017 Project Play Summit? Catch up with the recap: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/project-play-summit-wrap-up/
* More than 66% of kids don’t get the daily physical activity recommended by the CDC. Chris Watts of the National Fitness Foundation wrote about the history behind this stat: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/preparing-children-lifetime-fitness/
* Ex-MLB players Harold Reynolds, Jake Peavy and Rick Ankiel advised parents to lighten up and let kids have fun in baseball: https://www.facebook.com/AspenInstitute/videos/10159356125965341/
* MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred: Kids, don’t just play baseball: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/benefit-playing-multiple-sports/
