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Youth Sports: Taking A Toll On Family Life by Jeannette Twomey, JD Years ago, a youth league baseball coach called to let me know that my 11-year old son was being invited to join a major league team - a year ahead of most boys his age. After an initial rush of pride, I wondered how this "honor" might impact our family. More >> Food On The Go: Strategies For Parents Feeding Athletes Away From Home By Suzanne Nelson, D.Sc., R.D. One of the biggest nutritional challenges parents of youth athletes face is seeing that they eat properly away from home. More >>

Elite Youth Sports Parenting: An Introduction By Lucy Ferriss We've come a long way - I remember the moment as if it were yesterday. My older son, Luke, was nine when he was watching me playing tennis and expressed an interest in learning the game. I handed him a used kiddie racquet, showed him how to grip it, and started tossing balls over the net. Since he missed most of them, his 7-year-old brother, Dan, ran over from the playground and starting fetching and tossing the balls back to me. Finally, in frustration, Luke heaved the racquet against the fence. More >> College Recruiting for the Elite Athlete By Lucy Ferriss Not a Golden Ticket for Admission - Sooner or later, as the parent of a star athlete, you are going to hear about the "edge" your child supposedly has over the competition for college admission. Whether the end of the rainbow holds a pot-of-gold scholarship from a Division I school or admission to an Ivy League college, sports success carries more weight, on average, in college admissions and non-need-based scholarship awards than being the son or daughter of an alumnus/ae or a member of a minority. The practice may be unfair, but most will argue that college recruits did not invent the system and would be foolish not to take advantage of it. More >>