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For sport parents: A 30,000 foot view of the youth sport experience
It's easy to miss the big picture of youth sport because we're often overwhelmed with the technical stuff
Bill Price
Mar 17
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Pay-for-Play in college sports is now on the table
What was unthinkable just a few years ago is now a possible and reasonable outcome in collegiate sport. However, Olympic sports are on shakier ground…
Bill Price
Mar 3
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February 2023
Centralized vs. decentralized sport development systems
The Cold War battle of economic systems created sport development frameworks that are still used today.
Bill Price
Feb 17
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Has swim training lost the plot?
The rising cost of youth sport participation is slowly lowering skill levels by forcing coaches to focus on metabolic training rather than instruction…
Bill Price
Feb 3
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December 2022
Debriefing 2022: Takeaways from the archives
A curated list of topics impacting youth sport right now, or that will in the near future.
Bill Price
Dec 9, 2022
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November 2022
What kind of ethical thinker are you?
Ethics is more than simply determining right from wrong. Sometimes it's important to understand why something is right or why it's not.
Bill Price
Nov 25, 2022
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The problem of the late-starter athlete in youth sport programs
We don't often think of age and experience as demographic forces. But just as gravity or compound interest are omnipresent in other aspects of our…
Bill Price
Nov 11, 2022
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October 2022
What hath Covid wrought?
NGBs want the kids back, but the pandemic showed parents what life could be like without the daily grind of transporting kids to practices, late night…
Bill Price
Oct 28, 2022
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The parent, coach, athlete relationship is not as straightforward as you think
Transformative youth sport programs exist because of the people involved in them and their own agency within the role they play.
Bill Price
Oct 14, 2022
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September 2022
Not competing at a young age can be a good thing
NGBs should delay competition for their youngest athletes.
Bill Price
Sep 30, 2022
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Proposed rule changes will weaken or destroy Title IX
Instead of proposing changes that might actually improve the application of Title IX, the Biden administration is codifying woke ideology that will only…
Bill Price
Sep 16, 2022
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Women's diving, one of Malaysia's premier sports, has been eliminated from the upcoming Malaysia Games
Dropping the women's diving events from the 2022 Games highlights a gaping hole in Malaysia's sport development process.
Bill Price
Sep 2, 2022
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