#Trying Your Best
#Working Hard
#Staying Active
#Playing Well Together As A Team
A new youth sports study found that girls and boys rank trying your best and working hard as keys to having fun, while winning ranked 40th in importance on the list. Dr. Amanda J. Visek, associate professor of exercise and nutrition sciences at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, led the study. “Our data indicate girls and boys are more similar than different when it comes to what makes playing sports fun,” Visek said. “What counts most for girls and boys are things like ‘trying your best,’ ‘working hard,’ ‘staying active,’ and ‘playing well together as a team.’ These findings are the same for athletes at younger and older ages and across recreational and more competitive levels of play.”