Teaching youth how to identify, handle, and overcome it

By John Engh 

One of the great exercises that the National Alliance for Youth Sports offers in its Academy for Youth Sports Administrators is to make a list of all the reasons that sports are great for kids. We’ve done this with groups hundreds of times through the years, and the lists are nearly identical. Making friends, socialization, learning about working together, sportsmanship, handling winning and losing, developing confidence—the list goes on and on to show how the power of sport can be so beneficial to a child’s development.