On September 21st and 26th of 2017, we discussed youth sports in class. This article relates to content we discussed in class because it talks about a young athlete who was injured from overuse and how a lot of other young athletes are going through the same problems. The article starts off by talking about a girl who experienced an injury in her growth plates from continuous pounding on the knees. The girl had been playing soccer seven times a week for three different teams, her high school team, a recreation team, and a club team in Manhattan. In class we learned in class that overuse is one of many problems with youth sports. In the article it talks about how 60% of all Tommy John surgeries in the United States are for people ages 15 to 19. This and the girls injury with her growth plates are great examples to represent how overuse affect young athletes. The article mentions that the injuries are byproducts of the growing number of travel teams and tournaments because of parents who believe that their child is going to be the next Micheal Jordan. We learned in class that a common trend of youth sports is the increase of programs becoming privatized. Another problem in youth sports that we learned is that youth sports instill unrealistic goals of stardom or professional status which in this case is mostly because of the parents.
Read the full article here: http://nypost.com/2017/06/19/the-epidemic-thats-ruining-youth-sports/
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