Numbers
What percent of college athletes go on to play professional sports?
< 2%
Ice Hockey is known as the most expensive youth sport. On average, how much do parents pay per year?
Bonus (+100) - What is the maximum parents pay per year?
via TIME
Average: $7,013
Bonus (+100) - Maximum: $19,000
What system is defined as an arrangement where athletes and families have to pay in order to take part in their sport?
Pay-to-Play
What is social mobility?
Moving from a lower class to a higher one
True or false, there is a Sports Illustrated for Kids, but not a Sports Illustrated for Women
True
How many states have laws that institute the allowance of fees to play high school sports?
17
"In the 1990s, Division 1 and Division 2 colleges distributed about $250 million a year in full and partial scholarships to student athletes." What is that figure today? (via The Atlantic)
$3 billion
What is the main burden of organized and privatized youth sports on families?
Financial strain
Before ____, one in 27 girls played sports. Today that number is two in five.
via Women's Sports Foundation
Title IX
What order were the 4 main pro sports integrated in- list from earliest to latest?
NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL
How many children from ages 6 to 16 participate in organized youth sports in the US?
via The Huffington Post
45 million
True or false:
"Just 34 percent of children from families earning less than $25,000 played a team sport at least 30 days in 2017, versus 69 percent from homes earning more than $100,000. In 2011, those numbers were roughly 42 percent and 66 percent, respectively." (via The Atlantic)
False
"Just 34 percent of children from families earning less than $25,000 played a team sport at least one day in 2017, versus 69 percent from homes earning more than $100,000. In 2011, those numbers were roughly 42 percent and 66 percent, respectively."
What did we suggest to reduce the financial burden of youth sports on families?
Professional League funding
What ideology puts youth athletes who approach sports for fun and developmental purposes at a disadvantage to players who play to win?
Meritocracy
In 2014, a girl pitched a no-hitter for the first time at the LLWS. She was the 18th to ever play in the LLWS and the 6th to get a hit. What team (state) did she play for?
For 100 extra points: What was her name?
Philadelphia
Bonus (+100) - Mone Davis
How much do you think the youth sports industry has grown since 2017? (In 2017, it was estimated to be worth $15 billion)
~ $4.2 billion
What percent of parents spend NO money on their child's sport?
via Project Play
12%
What country instituted a successful reformation for youth sports costs?
Norway
Pay to play sports can fall into the category of EOCCs (elite, organized, competitive, commercial sports), which intertwine sport and ____?
Neoliberalism
Name the sport that each of these athletes participated in:
a. Arthur Rube Foster
b. Isaac Murphy
c. Major Taylor
a. baseball
b. horse racing
c. cycling
What are the percentages of children who play team sports from families earning less than $25,000 vs. from families earning $100,000+?
34% and 69%
Fill in the blank:
Kids’ sports is a nearly $___ industry, which makes it larger than the business of professional baseball and approximately the same size as the National Football League.
via The Atlantic
$17 billion
What state is the only one to outlaw high school sports participation fees?
California
Name the term based on the following definition:
Being a member of a subjugated group, but engaging in some behaviors or having some characteristics that belong to higher status groups and using that differentiate one’s self from other group members
Hegemonic bargaining
In what year were women banned from running any distance over 200m in the Olympics (after appearing “exhausted” at the finish line) and in what year were longer distances reinstated?
1928 and 1960