Re-Designing Youth Sport

This is a ground-breaking volume that will help coaches, sport directors, parents, and educators think about their sport in a new way. Containg examples of "Sport System reDesign" in current youth sport enterprises from around the globe, the authors provide a toolkit for anyone involved in youth sport to be able to analyze their own situation, think about their challenges and goals, and then create strategies for making small changes that will have a big impact. By making explicit how competition could be fruitfully re-designed, through thoughtful, incremental changes, this volume will help attain the sorts of outcomes that those invested would like to see emerge from youth sport.

John McCarthy, clinical faculty in Boston University’s School of Education, is the founder and Director of the BU Institute for Athletic Coach Education. He works with coaches and youth sport organizations to reclaim the purpose of sport for youth development.

Lou Bergholz is the founder of Edgework Consulting, a Boston-based firm that helps support the development of innovative interventions for some of the world’s most challenged children and youth. Lou has helped design and implement programs across four continents, working on issues of mental health and trauma, violence reduction, HIV prevention and gender-based violence.

Megan Bartlett is Chief Program Officer at Up2Us, a national coalition of more than 1000 organizations that use sport to promote positive youth development. She oversees training, research and dissemination of evaluation tools that enable organizations to provide high quality programs for youth across the country.