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Why You Should Encourage Your Kids To Be Multi-Sport AthletesWhy does youth sports today often feel like we're constantly being bombarded with messaging about how our kids need to intensely specialize in one sport, right now?

A Doctor's Perspective: Is Sports Specialization Helping Kids?Neeru Jayanthi, MD is one of the leading researchers in sport specialization and athlete development. With a background in tennis, he first began to study the effects of early sport specialization in junior elite tennis ...

Early Sport Specialization, NIL, and Mental HealthEarly sport specialization is becoming the norm. The wild world of collegiate NIL is starting to trickle down to high school athletes and even younger. National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that 1 in 6 children/ado...

Is Your Child's Youth Sports Experience Transactional or Transformational? - Changing the Game ProjectThis week I am headed to Chicago to speak at a youth sports conference called Rev, for clients of one of our partners, the web development and online registration organization

Can You Over-Sample in Youth Sports? - Changing the Game ProjectEvery month we get interesting emails and messages from our Changing the Game family, and once in a while we get one that is worth throwing to the community. We

Better Athletes Make Better Hockey PlayersWhen at Edina High School, Anders Lee, now captain of the New York Islanders and 10-year NHL veteran, wore a few different helmets. An all-state quarterback with Division I offers and an all-state pitcher in baseball, Lee didn’t choose hockey exclusively until he had to as a young adult. Paul Mart

Beyond athleticism: The hidden benefits of multiple sports and free playTo unlock a child’s full athletic potential, USA Hockey recommends following the principles of long-term athlete development and using the offseason as a time to participate in other sports and activities. However, beyond the scope of developing a youngster’s physical attributes, participation in

The Love of Learning in SportsSince The Reformed Sports Project's inception, I've collected more than 500 interviews with college coaches, professional athletes, performance experts, authors, scientists, and industry experts, and a topic that comes u...

A Race to the Head StartAfter my enlightening conversation with New York Times Best-selling author and investigative journalist David Epstein (The RSP Podcast, Episode 19), I knew I had to dig deeper into his work. Specifically, we discussed th...

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Why High-Level Coaches Love Multisport AthletesDeveloping the athlete first, then the hockey player

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