An estimated 45.7 million American children ages 6-17 take part in one or more sports. For many of their parents, those athletic endeavors can cost thousands of dollars each year. In fact, spiraling costs receive part of the blame for participation numbers declining 9% over five years.But there’s good news. While you can’t put a price on physical fitness, teamwork, and character-building, it is possible to lower the cost.Making Youth Sports Affordable: A Playbook for Parents is here to help the families of young athletes cut their expenses, trim their budgets and life-hack their way to a sensible spending plan.Costs...

Finding funds for competitions, training camp, equipment, etc .. Athletes and sports teams understand that it isn't easy balancing the financial side of sports.Each sport fails to have the same media exposure, so they are not all equal in the eyes of sponsors, brands and supporters.For athletes with an agent, they will benefit from a network of contacts, for others, the path to the podium will probably be filled with more obstacles, such as raising funds.This is why more and more athletes and sports organizations are turning to online crowdfunding as a last resort.Some are successful, but many are planted.Through...

Baseball is America’s favourite pastime, it has been for over 150 years! Why not keep this legacy strong by learning a few tips and tricks to properly support the baseball financially. Nowadays, coaches are facing the reality of the challenges they face when trying to develop their team. Uniforms, umpires, field rentals, transportation, insurance, the list goes on. Coaches now must turn more than ever to fundraising to try to alleviate the financial stresses of ensuring a quality season and memorable experience for their athletes.Fundraising isn’t difficult, it simply requires a collective effort and continued dedication from all parties involved....

The relationship that exists between a coach and an athlete has been extensively researched, and can be both extreme and powerful. When we talk about the relationship between a coach and an athlete, we tend to focus on the influence on the physical and psychological development of their athletes. Dr Sophia Jowett, an expert on interpersonal relationships in sport, with an emphasis on coaching relationships, defines a positive coach-athlete relationship as a situation where closeness (trust, respect and appreciation), commitment (interpersonal thoughts, intentions that maintain the relationship), and complementary (cooperation, responsiveness, easiness and friendliness) are mutually interconnected and organic.Role of...