Health & Sport

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.

Our fourth annual report is the latest snapshot of how well stakeholders are serving children and communities through youth sports.

State of Play Hawai‘i is a snapshot of how well adults are serving youth through sports, including sections describing the sport ecosystem in each of the four counties.

This report analyzed the landscape of youth physical activity through sports, play and outdoor recreation in King County, Washington.

This report offers an assessment of the state of play for youth sports, physical activity and outdoor recreation in King County

William Gates and Arthur Agee spoke with Jon Solomon about the impact of the movie Hoop Dreams 25 years later and the current state of youth basketball.

The Aspen Institute’s “Don’t Retire, Kid” campaign raises awareness about gaps in the youth sports system that cause kids to quit sports or not start in the first place – and the solutions to keep them in the game. The State of Play 2019 report released in September 2019 includes several key findings.

Our fourth annual report is the latest snapshot of how well stakeholders are serving children and communities through youth sports.

The Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program launched a new campaign, “Don’t Retire, Kid,” to raise awareness about declining youth sports participation and solutions to create positive experiences for kids. One of the PSAs included Cassidy Hubbarth, a talented NBA and college football broadcaster at ESPN, as a reporter at a fictional press conference for a 9-year-old boy to retire from sports.