Marrosann

Proposal

The article I’m revising and editing, “Youth Athletics”, is extremely broad and lacking both in title and in content. The introduction where the author defines youth athletics is very brief and doesn’t give the reader hardly any idea what types of content the article will consist of. I think a more detailed, narrow focus would be helpful to clarify at the beginning of the article. All I took out of this article was a decent idea of what youth sports are and a slight idea of how it can develop youth. The article would benefit from going more in depth about the benefits youth athletics has on youth today and also the skills they learn and how they are useful throughout life. I want to focus on the benefits of global youth participation in sports and how it affects youth development. With this, I will touch on individual sports, team sports, and sports involving dance and their varying and similar affects on youth.

It is important that I compare and contrast access to and involvement in sports in the global north vs. the global south at the beginning of my article, with an emphasis on the global south throughout the rest of the article. Are there more youth in the global north who participate in sports or in the global south? What challenges do each face considering their location? These are all questions I want to explore and address in the article. In regards to the global south, I want to explore the difference, if any, in organized sport versus playing for fun.

There is some overlap with other article in Wikipedia and I plan to provide links to these other articles to guide readers to the related pages. Gender in sports is a topic I want to expand on in my article, examining whether or not as many girls are involved in youth sports as boys or if sports affect youth differently based on gender, specifically in the global south. Along with this, I want to include the types of sports girls are involved in in comparison to boys and how we can break the gender inequality that goes on in sports, which is discussed in the “Gender in Sports” article. Examples of all sports: individual, team, dance, and possibly even personal stories of athletes and how youth sports affect or have affected their lives in some way may be helpful to the reader in full understanding the topic. Again, another article citation I want to include in my revision is “Sport for Social Development” which can provide readers with information on specific global organizations for youth sport.