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How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls' Sports
The Pay-to-Play Pipeline, with a New Preface
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2023
Summary
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.
Featuring a new preface to bring this evergreen topic up to the present, How College Athletics Are Hurting Girls’ Sports is an important and timely reminder that even as we celebrate sports’ potential to have a positive impact on a girl’s life, changes need to be made in college and youth athletics to improve the experiences of young athletes so that sports become fun once again.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-5381-7680-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-5381-7758-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
232
Product Type
Monograph
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CONTENTS No access
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION No access
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
INTRODUCTION No access Pages 1 - 12
CHAPTER 1. THE FEMALE YOUTH SPORTS TO COLLEGE PIPELINE No access Pages 13 - 50
CHAPTER 2. HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE YOUTH SPORTS TO COLLEGE PIPELINE No access Pages 51 - 86
CHAPTER 3. THE COMMERCIALIZED YOUTH SPORTS TO COLLEGE PIPELINE No access Pages 87 - 118
CHAPTER 4. CREATING DEMAND FOR THE YOUTH SPORTS TO COLLEGE PIPELINE No access Pages 119 - 146
CHAPTER 5. FEMALE SPORTS ON MALE TERMS No access Pages 147 - 172
CHAPTER 6. SAVING GIRLS’ YOUTH SPORTS BY CHANGING HIGHER EDUCATION No access Pages 173 - 202
APPENDIX: The Challenges of Ethnography No access Pages 203 - 208
