This Week in High School Sports: 8/28/15
August 27, 2015
Following a decade-long run of "MHSAA Perspective" on radio stations all over Michigan, the MHSAA is debuting this week "This Week in High School Sports," a collection of features discussing current issues and highlighting accomplishments that will be produced through the winter season.
This Week In High School Sports will lead each show with feature stories from around the state from the MHSAA’s Second Half, or from network affiliated stories and interviews. "Be The Referee," a 60-second look at the fine art of officiating, makes its statewide radio debut in the middle of the show and is followed by a closing Perspective.
The opening show features the Ithaca High School football team, a "You Make the Call" question on Be The Referee, and a Perspective about the MHSAA’s ongoing health and safety work. Listen to this week’s show by Clicking Here.
Youth Sports: 'Focus on the End User'
August 24, 2018
By Geoff Kimmerly
Second Half editor
As we at the MHSAA work toward promoting the benefits of a multi-sport experience at the high school level, we – with our Multi-Sport Task Force – realize these messages will be most valuable when they reach parents of children at the youth levels.
Below is an 18-minute TEDx talk by Travis Dorsch, a former kicker and punter at Purdue University and with multiple NFL teams who went on to receive his doctorate from Purdue and currently serves as an assistant professor at Utah State. He has conducted significant study on children’s youth sport participation and its impacts particularly on family relationships.
In this talk, he speaks on proper expectations for young athletes and how financial costs of youth sports have twisted those expectations.
Dorsch will speak at the 6th Annual Kristen Marie Gould Endowed Lecture on Sport for Children and Youth on Sept. 6 at Michigan State University. He will be lecturing on “From Sandlot to Stadium: What We Know, What We Don't, and Best Practices for Parent Involvement in Youth Sport.”