Create A Positive Youth Sports Culture

How To Lead A Youth Sports Team Towards Positive Culture As A Coach Sports are played by kids to learn something valuable and to have fun. It becomes essential for the coaches to guide the teams with positivity as most of the other teams have been indulged in negativity due to the unethical behavior towards…

Cheating Culture In Youth Sports

Though it’s heart-wrenching to see what the kids went through, it isn’t surprising to see Jacki Robinson West’s U.S Little League Title getting stripped off due to violations of rules of recruiting players from outside of the league’s set boundaries. The engrained element of cheating has always been a part of youth sports. Another example…

Coach Code of Conduct Agreement

Coach Code of Conduct Agreement You are hereby Notified: Falsifying Official Government Documents is a Criminal Offense: I am the parent or legal guardian of this child(s) and/or have been granted permission by the parent/legal guardian to create this account)s) and submit documentation for this player(s). I declare under penalty of perjury (U.S. Code Title…

EPLAY Gold Player Verification

< Back to EPLAY Site EPLAY Gold Membership Player Verification   Seen and be seen like never before! EPLAY is very proud to announce a partnership with National Sports ID to help verify our Gold members identity. National Sports ID is an online service that verifies the age/grade of youth athletes by providing sports IDs to…

Youth Sports Participation

Youth sports are vital to keeping children in shape and active, providing them with safe and enjoyable activities that reduce time spent playing video games or sitting around. Unfortunately, they cost a lot more than they did years ago, preventing some parents from letting their children play sports due to lacking the funds to do…

Youth Sports Participation is Down

Youth sports are known to have many beneficial qualities associated with them, such as wellness and social exploration. However, despite, this, participation in youth sports programs has been trending down in recent years for a couple of reasons. One reason is that parents are making youth sports all about them. Although athletes tend to have…

NBA’s Guidelines for Youth Athletes

Youth basketball is very important to the National Basketball Association (NBA), as it teaches young players how to play the game and grooms the next generation of stars. As such, the NBA has compiled some guidelines for young players, in the hopes of them turning out to be the best they can be. The guidelines…

Cheating in Youth Sports

Youth sports are supposed to be great ways for young athletes to engage in a healthy, competitive activity while making friends and learning good life lessons. However, there are some parents and coaches who decide to make things all about themselves, youth sports cheating “for their children” by staking teams or twisting the rules to…

Age of Youth Sports Participants

In youth sports, measures are taken to ensure that all participants are the proper age for the team they are playing on. However, simply asking for identification documents isn’t always enough, as there are many examples of occasions where players faked their age or had their documents faked by coaches in order to gain an…