The Hidden Costs of Ineligible Players: Why Verification Should Be Your First Priority

The Hidden Costs of Ineligible Players: Why Verification Should Be Your First Priority  In youth sports, every detail matters—from coaching and scheduling to rosters and player eligibility. While it’s easy to focus on the obvious logistics, there’s one critical area that often gets overlooked until it’s too late: verifying that every player on the field…
Youth Sports Cheating Illustration: Visual representation of the issue of cheating in youth sports.

Is Youth Sports All About Cheating?

Though it’s heartbreaking to watch what the children went through, it’s not unexpected that Jacki Robinson West’s US Little League title was taken owing to infringement of the league’s regulations regarding acquiring players from beyond the league’s defined bounds. Cheating has long been ingrained in the culture of child sports. Lance Armstrong, whose seven Tour…
Young athletes discussing fair play and sportsmanship

How to Make Your Kids Aware of Cheating in Youth Sports

Children look up to those they admire. In most situations, sports-obsessed children desire to imitate whatever their favorite athlete performs. Both the good and the terrible. It is quite normal. Children attempt to copy the actions of their elders. It is why parents must be aware of their children’s views and react to certain situations.…

How to Overcome Cheating in Youth Sports

In several other regions of Asia and many African nations, age fraud in football is fairly widespread. For numerous years, it has afflicted FIFA’s youth competitions. African countries are known for fielding players that are beyond the age limit. Nigeria is the only country to have won the U17 World Cup five times. However, it…

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…

Youth Sports- Adults Cheat, The Kids Pay The Price

Parents who have actively participated in the youth sports world would agree to a certain extent that there is an element of cheating there, especially by the adults.  It all starts with coaches and parents making changes in the team by bringing better players from other districts or older divisions. They do that, at young…