12-Year-Old Burnout
By Wes Simmons

According to the National Alliance for Sports, a whopping 70 percent of kids who play competitive sports quit by age 13 due to burnout. As an 80’s and 90’s kid who LOVED sports, the idea of burning out at age 12 seems unfathomable to me. Things have changed. As a coaching community, we need to change too so we can meet the needs of a new generation.

Check out this short video of my colleague Mark Hull where he shares some ideas about why we feel it is now essential to coach the heart of your athletes in the 21st century.

When kids enter into an environment where they are cared for, they are much less likely to quit for the wrong reasons. Sure, some natural attrition will take place as young people grow and discover other things they are more passionate about. However, as we train up a new generation of coaches to be more 3Dimensional in their approach, our sincere hope is that this phenomenon called “12-year-old burnout” will soon be regarded as an anomaly of the past.