Sports are a Dress Rehearsal for Life
In this TEDx Talk Give Sport Back To The Kids, Matt Young explains how parents, coaches, and administrators have contributed to the 70% attrition rate among the 40 million North American kids who register to play a sport each year.
By transforming the joy of playing sport into the chore of working sport, kids have responded to the adult-induced pressures, demands, and abuse by dropping out of sport in droves. Many kids have chosen sedentary lifestyles that are negatively affecting their physical, mental, and social development.
Matt’s idea-worth-spreading is that we must stop this mass exodus by kids from sports by putting their wants and needs before those of adults.
Matt Young is an athlete development expert and father of two sports-obsessed boys. He has coached multiple sports over 20 years and consulted over 50 organizations from grassroots, to professional and Olympic sports. This passion for supporting sport organizations led FSQ Consulting to create FSQ Sport, focused on creating quality sport experiences for as many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible.
FSQ Consulting is here to help develop better leaders.
Through our FSQ Sport division, we focus on people and processes before policies and procedures. The knowledge, tools, and resources support sport organizations in developing an organizational culture that drives operational processes and systems. Our mission is to help as many as possible, as long as possible, in the best environments possible.
We don’t believe in the status quo and neither should you.