Youth Sport (Chapter 8)
This is the largest youth sport organization.
What is Little League baseball?
This is the percentage of adolescents between 15 and 18 that is enrolled in high school.
What is 90%?
This NCAA division has the most member institutions.
What is D3?
This is the primary reason kids drop out of sport.
What is "loss of interest"?
This is the primary reason kids participate in sport.
What is "to have fun"?
True or false: interscholastic sport is culturally specific.
What is "true"?
(NA has interscholastic, Europe is predominantly club-based)
This term refers to the overrepresentation of athletes in specific majors.
What is clustering?
This is the percentage of yearly donations that U of M receives during the football season (from the video).
What is 60-70%?
*Would take any percentage between these numbers
This is the process of learning and adapting to a given social system (i.e., “cultural transmission”).
What is socialization?
This is the biggest difference between youth sports and interscholastic sports.
What is the relationship between the educational system and interscholastic sports?
This percentage of D1 University athletic departments make a profit each year.
What is 10%?
This is the percentage of children who participate in youth sport.
What is 70%?
This is the percentage of youth athletes, parents, and coaches that admitted to cheating in the Sportsmanship vs. Victory study.
What is 20%?
These are the five signs of a corporate shift within interscholastic sport.
What are...
1.Resemblance to college-level financial practices
2.“Prep schools” that inflate grades
3.Increased exposure and commercialization (e.g., participation in national tournaments/all-star games, national rankings)
4.Professionalization of young elite athletes (e.g., recruited to specific high schools; year-round play)
5.Intense recruitment to colleges
Women's sports were added to the NCAA in this year.
What is 1981?
These NCAA division(s) are allowed to award athletic scholarships.
What are D1 and D2?
These are the four potential problems in youth sport.
What are...
1. Adult intrusion
2. Disruption of education
3. Risk of injury
4. Too much emphasis on winning
Name 4 of the 9 problems with interscholastic sport.
What are: the subversion of educational goals, reinforcement of gender roles, cheating, unsportsmanlike behavior of fans, autocratic coaches, excessive pressure to win, elitism, sport specialization, and/or budget imbalances?
Name 4 of the 8 consequences of the commercialization of intercollegiate sport.
What are: money shifts focus from student to winning; less sports offered; boosters/sponsors have say in university decisions; scheduling caters to TV demands; body bag games; students have fewer number of seats at athletic events; unfair/illegal recruiting practices; education becomes a secondary priority
This method of calculating the six-year graduation rate for athletes takes transfers OUT into account (i.e., counts them as failures), but does not count transfers IN to a university.
What is FGR?
*Note--GSR accounts for transfers IN, but not transfers OUT