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Several years ago, I remember reading an article titled “Are You Running Youth Sports or is It Running You?” The article took a jab at the subservient role that recreation professionals sometimes play when it comes to youth sports in their respective communities.
Being a former recreation professional responsible for the administration of close to 15,000 kids in organized sports, I knew immediately what the writer of the article was getting at. And so do hundreds of youth-sports administrators out there today.
I have always wondered why someone would have to write an article that spelled out how people trying to oversee sports programs for children would have to be subservient to volunteer-parent interest groups who use public facilities.