Trends in Youth Sports

There are many reasons why youth sports may decline in numbers, but the main thing to be taken from these charts is that the two sports increasing in participation are extremely white sports played by overwhelmingly affluent kids.  Across all divisions of Men's NCAA Ice Hockey, there are just 35 Black players compared to 3,280 White players (Source: NCAA Study 2020) and only 2 Black coaches compared to 460 White coaches.  In Men's NCAA Lacrosse there are 635 Black players and 12,530 White players with 37 Black coaches compared to 1,144 White Coaches.