1. Is Winning Everything
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2. Youth Sports Agents Adults Parents Coaches
Parents living vicariously through their kids

3. Achievement Motivation
To excel in an activity for personal or intrinsic goals
Fear of failure: to avoid negative feedback such as punishment or ridicule. To please others such as parents.

4. Winning According to Arthur Ashe, winning is rewarded.
Utilization of extrinsic rewards.
Outcome as a significant factor

5. Pee Wee football team 55 ten to eleven year old youth
30 remained have way through the season
10 cut
15 quit

6. Little League Program
Meeting the motivation of youth: to have fun and learn the skills to play baseball
Low key games
Learning as a significant factor.
Developmentally appropriate learning:
Examples:

7. What do youth want from their sport experience?
According to Michigan State University Institute for Youth Sports:
Have Fun
To Learn skills and Find Something I am Good At
To Stay In Shape
To Be Part of a Team and make friends

8. Reasons for Drop Out Youth cite the following: Was not fun
Did not learn skills
Coach played favoritisms to skilled members
Video:95% of kids surveyed want to have fun and 75% said they would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team.