Category: Media Article

January 3, 2022

Why kids are losing interest in playing team sports

Travis Dorsch, Utah State University Families in Sport Lab, joins The News with Shepard Smith to discuss why young people are less interested in playing team sports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbGgaxhYgAg

January 3, 2022

What Is Engaged Scholarship and How Can It Improve Your Research?

Community-engaged scholarship is increasingly viewed as a valuable strategy for strengthening the quality and impact of academic research. This approach involves partnering with relevant groups or communities—those who are the focus of a research study or who may be directly...

December 6, 2021

Kids are losing interest in organized sports. Why that matters

For more than a century, team sports have been a mainstay of American childhood. What began as a way to keep boys in cities occupied and out of trouble has evolved into a $19-billion industry, with much of that revenue...

August 18, 2021

All play, no fun: Pushing back on the pressures of youth sports

The world of youth sports has become a pressure cooker – one that, for now, the Redds have managed to resist. “All we ask when she comes home,” says Ms. Redd, “is how was practice and did you have fun?”

August 5, 2021

The effects of the pandemic on young people and youth sports

In collaboration with The Aspen Institute‘s Sports & Society Program, Families in Sport Lab at Utah State University, and Louisiana Tech University‘s Minds in Motion Lab, TeamSnap released the results of its research study