Youth Sports: A Matter of Picking Your Game
Parks & Recreation › Vol. 44 Nbr. 7, July 2009
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To take just one example, Loudounyouthsports.com, a Web site devoted to organized activity in rapidly growing Loudoun County, Virginia, covers the following sports: baseball, basketball, cheerleading, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, inline hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling, and cross-country running. The city of Weston contracts with all- volunteer Westön Sports Alliance, Inc., to manage organized league sports, including Little League, roller hockey, football, and lacrosse; AYSO pays $35 per player to use 12 fields. [...] their boat comes into view, leading its three competitors by a significant margin.
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Youth Sports: A Matter of Picking Your Game
Saturday, 7:30 a.m.: Hundreds of bleary-eyed teen-aged boys and girls stream into the parking lot of the Thompson Boat Center on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Some wear uniforms in school colors. Others sport outfits that will be discarded when they get into the 60-foot-long boats they are off-loading from massive trailers. The Charlie Butt Regatta, named for a legendary founder of area youth rowing, attracts teams from nearly two dozen high schools, with the first race scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m., the last in late afternoon. An afternoon event for freshman girls' teams will include Coach Elyse Lerum's...
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