Thirty Million children are involved in youth sports in North America, under the direction of 4.5 million coaches and 1.5 million administrators. When these programs place an inordinate emphasis on competition and winning they become detrimental. Most youth sport coach's lack even rudimentary knowledge of the emotional, psychological and social needs of children or young adults. Some of the rules that are emphasized sound good - teamwork, sacrifice for the common good, never giving up, giving 110 percent of yourself - and in the hands of sensitive, knowledgeable, well-trained coaches they can be used to teach youth valuable habits. But such coaches are far from the rule. Examples abound of coaches teaching youth the wrong things, in many cases without even knowing it, to the point of being a serious social problem.

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