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Project Play Summit 2022 Recap

Top soccer leaders endorsed the creation of more local programs as a solution to the often expensive travel team model that has come to dominate the youth ...

BY Jon Solomon

Blog Post

05.05.2022
Sports

Jeremy Lin on Racism, Mental Health, and the Problem with Game Highlights

Lin recently spoke at the 2021 Project Play Summit.

BY DAVID K. GIBSON

Blog Post

10.20.2021
Sports

The pressure on kids to make the NBA is “scary”

This year’s Project Play Summit was an away game, venturing away from Washington D.C. for the first time in its five-year history. Detroit welcomed the convening with more than 500 leaders at the intersection of youth, sport and health – the largest turnout in the Summit’s history.

BY Jon Solomon

Blog Post

09.19.2019
Sports

Recapping Day 1 of the Project Play Summit

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mary Carillo, Tony Hawk, and more took the stage to speak about the present and future of youth sports.

BY Jon Solomon

Blog Post

10.17.2018
Sports

Get Ready for the 2018 Project Play Summit

The theme of this year’s summit is “Think Global, Play Local.” Learn how you can follow along online.

BY Sports & Society Program

Blog Post

10.15.2018
Sports

The Best Sports Town in America

New York Times sports writer Karen Crouse traveled to Norwich to discover the town’s secret.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

09.20.2017
Around the Institute

Project Play Summit Wrap-Up

Read insights and announcements from day one of the 2017 Project Play Summit.

BY Sports & Society Program

Blog Post

09.07.2017
Sports

The Benefit of Playing Multiple Sports

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred explains why specialization can hurt kids.

BY Jon Solomon

Blog Post

09.07.2017
Sports

Why We Need to Fix Youth Sports

The number of kids playing sports keeps decreasing. How can we reverse this trend?

BY Jon Solomon

Blog Post

09.05.2017
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