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Being able to identify early- and late-maturing athletes gives coaches one more tool they can use to understand the demographic forces at work in their athlete pools
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Amateurism is on life-support and may not survive its next court challenge
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Rising costs that make youth sports an upper middle class activity are bad socially and hurt sport performance overall
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How coaching expectations can influence athlete outcomes
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The current trend toward early specialization is hurting development of athleticism
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It exists in any data set that tracks growth or performance of youngsters. The question is not, is it there? The question is what to do about it?
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Applying the Anna Karenina Principle to sport development
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Training age provides an indirect measure of an athlete's experience in sport
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Resources
Sportkid Metrics LLCCompany website
Maturity Offset Calculator
Maturity Measurement Protocols
Relative age calculator
Articles
The Mundanity of ExcellenceDaniel Chambliss (1989) 24pp.

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