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How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, with a New Preface

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports: The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, with a New Preface

Eckstein, Rick

Paperback

Sports GeneralGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1538176807
ISBN13: 9781538176801
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 8 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

More girls are playing sports than ever before--which, on the surface, is great for girls because sports offer positive and empowering fun for young women. In reality, though, few young athletes report fun as a reason they play sports. The rates of concussions and repetitive-use injuries are on the rise, and kids are encouraged to specialize in a single sport at earlier and earlier ages, even at the expense of friends, other activities, and health. Through years of extensive research, Rick Eckstein discovered that college athletics have had an alarming impact on this trend in youth sports, particularly for girls.

How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports looks closely at college sports and how they shape the athletic--and personal--landscape for girls and young women. Filled with powerful interview excerpts from women athletes of all ages, as well as coaches, league officials, and others, the book chronicles how college and youth sports have become more commercialized, to the detriment of participants. The book looks at a range of sports, with case studies including soccer, field hockey, ice hockey, figure skating, and Ultimate Frisbee.

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