‘Participation Trophies’ Are a Fake Crisis. Here’s the Real Problem for Youth Sports.

📆 4/24/2023 8:00 PM
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The “participation trophy” debate has returned, this time in North Carolina, where legislators want to ban the practice from youth sports. Columnist jasongay argues the debate obscures a real crisis: the shrinking overall participation in youth sports.

April 24, 2023 7:00 am ET Is there a debate sillier than the one over “participation trophies?” Like an out-of-shape benchwarmer, our intermittent national bicker over the appropriate reasons to award hardware to young athletes has wheezed its way back onto the playing field.

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