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THE GREATEST CHALLENGE IN YOUTH SPORTS

It may be that the most significant challenge facing youth sports today is the lack of sufficiently trained athletic coaches. The Aspen Institute has studied this extensively and reports, “Coaches are the delivery mechanism for quality sport programming … They can make an athlete for life—or wreck enthusiasm for sport altogether … Trained coaches do best.”ssss1 However, “Less than four in 10 youth coaches say they are trained in any of the following areas: sport skills and tactics, effective motivational technique, or safety needs (CPR/basic first aid and concussion management).”ssss1

Effective motivational techniques and sports skills/tactics are the skill sets we most often associate with good coaching. According to this study, only 36 percent of coaches have received training in effective motivational techniques and 35 percent in sports skills/tactics. The Aspen Institute report provides this information:

Here is why the skill of effective motivation may be the most important in improving youth sports in America. A youth sports study on why students quit a sports team showed that 39 percent of students responded that they weren’t having fun.ssss1 This is an alarming figure and was by far the biggest reason statistically of why students quit playing. At the core, I believe this is a function of the environment created by the coach. Following the GET MOR3EE formula equips coaches to begin building this environment.