Youth Sports: Prespectives for a New Century

Youth Sports -- Perspectives for a New Century presents a unique blend of discussions of organized sport for children from the research and applied perspectives.

The first part of the volume offers comprehensive discussions of biological and health-related issues in youth sports: growth and maturation, regulation of puberty, cardiac characteristics, dehydration and rehydration, responsiveness to training, injury profiles, and genetic advances in the sport sciences.

The second part of the volume offers corresponding discussions of social and psychological issues in youth sports: social influences, parental roles, attrition and dissatisfaction, anxiety, overtraining and burnout, moral dimensions, and abuse of power.

The applied section presents perspectives on youth sport in the inner city, challenges facing interscholastic sports, and youth sports coach edcation and effectiveness.

An introductory overview of issues in youth sports introduces the volume, and an overview of the contributions with suggested directions for youth sports research closes this unique discussion of youth sports.