What we have in the Minneapolis park system is not so much a system that will find our next Olympian, but one that offers the broadest opportunities for youth to develop sports skills limited to achieving recreational level skills at best.
I have coached youth baseball for the past six years, and youth basketball for the past three. As my children approach the 6th and 8th levels I am faced with the reality that they will not find them with the competitive skills approaching their suburban brothers and sisters, where resources and competitive levels are much greater. The commissioner of our baseball league stated in a parents meeting tonight that John Anderson, the University of MN baseball coach does not even look at Minneapolis high school players in his recruiting. -- Steve Kotvis > From: WizardMarks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:56:13 -0600 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Mpls] youth sports > > Dennis Schapiro wrote: > >> And if anyone would like to take a larger context, I suggest that we as >> a city make a commitment that every child has significant opportunities >> for sports, arts and service. (Admittedly short on specifics, but >> perhaps a discussion starter.) >> >> Any takers? >> >> I'll bite, but I don't have any suggestions. What I do know is that there is >> an olympic gold medalist lurking among the children in my neighborhood, but >> that without youth sports we aren't likely to find him/her/them. Since the >> only sport I'm good at is jacks (my mother was the Northern Kentucky jacks >> champ around 1920, I think), I have no idea how to go from here. >> > WizardMarks, Central > >> >> _______________________________________ >> Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy >> Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: >> http://e-democracy.org/mpls >> > > > _______________________________________ > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: > http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
