This is devastating news to anyone who knows anything about high school sports: It might not seem like a big drop — only 4 percent — but this is pretty significant considering how our country responded to the pandemic over the past couple years.
These kids were locked out of school for a year. When they were at practice they were wearing masks. They stood in social distanced circles on the basketball court. There were just so many reasons to quit the team — even if you were one of the better players.
And now the numbers are in: The NFHS survey found that in 2018-2019, schools registered 7,937,491 kids in school sports. But by the end of the 2021-2022 season, that number had dropped to 7,618,054 participants, a loss of 319,437 kids.
All the top ten boys sports, but golf saw a loss of anywhere from 3 percent to as much […]
Excerpt Sourced From: notthebee.com
