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Is Winning Everything. KIN 125. Youth Sports Agents. Adults Parents Coaches Parents living vicariously through their kids. Achievement Motivation. To excel in an activity for personal or intrinsic goals
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Is Winning Everything KIN 125
Youth Sports Agents • Adults • Parents • Coaches Parents living vicariously through their kids
Achievement Motivation • To excel in an activity for personal or intrinsic goals • Fear of failure: to avoid negative feedback such as punishment or ridicule. To please others such as parents.
Winning • According to Arthur Ashe, winning is rewarded. • Utilization of extrinsic rewards. • Outcome as a significant factor
Pee Wee football team • 55 ten to eleven year old youth • 30 remained have way through the season • 10 cut • 15 quit
Little League Program • Meeting the motivation of youth: to have fun and learn the skills to play baseball • Low key games • Learning as a significant factor. • Developmentally appropriate learning: • Examples:
What do youth want from their sport experience? • According to Michigan State University Institute for Youth Sports: • Have Fun • To Learn skills and Find Something I am Good At • To Stay In Shape • To Be Part of a Team and make friends
Reasons for Drop Out • Youth cite the following: • Was not fun • Did not learn skills • Coach played favoritisms to skilled members • Video:95% of kids surveyed want to have fun and 75% said they would rather play on a losing team than sit on the bench of a winning team.