Week 4 Discussion

Initial Post

Your initial post should read approximately 250 to 350 words in length and include at least one citation from the bibliography of your textbook chapter, with the accompanying reference in APA format. To receive the maximum points, your post should include a reference from the textbook, an article of your choosing, and one of this week’s ancillary readings.

Prompt

What are the dangers of sports specialization at too young of an age?

Parameters

• Identify one major point from the textbook that was a new learning point for you
• Retrieve one article/citation from the chapter bibliography that was referenced to make this point 
• Apply what you learned from reading this additional article
• Address how reading this additional article built upon this major point from the text
• Discuss contradictory information from the article to the text’s main point
• Follow APA guidelines

Readings

• Ford, P. R., & Williams, A. M. (2017). Sport activity in childhood: Early specialization and diversification. Routledge handbook of talent identification and development in sport (pp. 116-132).
• Myer, G. D., Jayanthi, N., Difiori, J. P., Faigenbaum, A. D., Kiefer, A. W., Logerstedt, D., & Micheli, L. J. (2015). Sport specialization, part I: Does early sports specialization increase negative outcomes and reduce the opportunity for success in young athletes? Sports Health, 7(5), 437-442.
• Myer, G. D., Jayanthi, N., DiFiori, J. P., Faigenbaum, A. D., Kiefer, A. W., Logerstedt, D., & Micheli, L. J. (2016). Sports specialization, part II: Alternative solutions to early sport specialization in youth athletes. Sports Health, 8(1), 65-73.