(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
How can a youth sports organizer encourage players to return year after year?Through encouraging coaches players will come back to play sports is my best answer since coaches hold the greatest psychological effects over the players and can make or break a child's experience in sports.
Through competitive pricing with breaks for parents can bring kids back to play sports is my second answer and this is followed by A youth sports organizer can encourage players to return year after year by incorporating smart small business management techniques to keep the business afloat and available for players to play for my third answer.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
I arrived at my best answer through experience working in AVY Flag Football and in San Dimas Little League baseball, as well as going into my research I have found most sources comment that coaches often attribute them to where 70% of all players leave sports before turning 13.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
I faced a problem of research soon becoming repetitive as there isn't much research put into this subject. Often time youth sports are over looked in their importance in child development so I was forced to reply a lot on experience through mentorship and talking to others involved in youth sports organizations.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
DiFiori, John P., Holly J. Benjamin, Joel Brenner, Andrew Gregory, Neeru Jayanthi, Greg L. Landry, and Anthony Luke. "Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine." American Medical Society for Sports Medicine 24.1 (2014): 1-20.
"Our Story." Positive Coaching Alliance. Positive Coaching Alliance, n.d. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.
are the MLA formats of the two sources I have used the most in my project and they lead the way of where I wanted to go with my topic. The Positive Coaching Alliance and American Society for Sports Medicine both address the main concerns facing players today and explain how these are coming to be.
