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Why Coaches Feel There Are Not Enough Athletic Facilities  If you ask any coach in Northern California if they think that there are enough athletic facilities almost uniformly, the answer would be “no”; speaking as a former baseball coach that was the most consistent complaint among my fellow coaches. Based on our Northern California facility study, …

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Originally published in I love to watch you play by Asia Mape My daughter quit sports, and this is what youth sports parents need to know. This is my oldest daughter Piper, and yes, I got her permission to write this. She’s a water polo player. Well – she used to be. She dreamed of playing for …

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Originally published in the Aspen Institute’s State of Play 2022 Kids are back to sports – sort of. As the impact of COVID-19 on our society lessened in 2022, how children participated in sports continued to evolve. The trends below come from the Aspen Institute’s State of Play 2022 report, courtesy of data collected or …

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Fred Rogers once said that “play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning…they have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play”. This basic truth applies to all aspects of child development …

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In the Beginning  It was late October, 2008 in Oakland, California, -the Oakland Athletics just finished another frustrating season with a strong starting pitching staff and a not so great offense to support them and my four year old daughter Mia and I were watching the Philadelphia Phillies and the Tampa Bay Rays in the World …

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