Ohio High School Athletic Association Gets Involved in Youth Sports

A newspaper series prompts Ohio's State Athletic Association to offer itself as a guide in regulating youth sports.

Last spring, Lucy Gonzalez, a 16-year-old junior at Dublin (Ohio) Jerome High School, staggered off the soccer field after a soccer ball slammed into her head. Her vision was blurred and she could barely understand what her coaches and teammates were saying. The signs were obvious. She had just suffered a serious concussion - her third in 10 months. After years of pushing herself to excel in several youth sports leagues, her soccer career was over in an instant. Lucy's story was just one of several featured in a Columbus Dispatch five-day series, "Little Leagues, Big Costs," which exposed the potential health risks to participants within Ohio's $60 million youth sports industry. The articles uncovered coaches and parents pushing young children to their limits, resulting in great financial, emotional and physical costs.

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