The Weekly Executive Roundup for Youth Sports Leaders
The people actually building in youth sports — on the record about what they got wrong before they got it right, and what an operator should do with it Monday morning.
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Q&A Edition — August 17, 2026
Ian Babcock · Founder & host, Chat By The Pitch
The man who has spent almost four years and 180-plus episodes asking club directors the questions parents are too polite to ask — on what actually keeps a kid in the game, the two AI cameras clubs are buying, and the World Cup families walking into your registration this month.
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Q&A Edition — August 10, 2026
Alec Bantel · Founder, ACTIQO
The average family now spends $1,016 a year on one kid's primary sport — and that's just the part they can see. A conversation with the builder of an app that shows families what youth sports really cost them, and what a club should say out loud before parents compute it resentfully on their own.
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The Faceoff — August 3, 2026
From 8 Indiana schools to 108 in three seasons, Ohio sanctioned, and the NFL writing checks. The growth is real — the question is whether the infrastructure keeps up, and what a district should decide before it says yes.
Read the conversation →The Faceoff — July 27, 2026
Three times a coalition has taken a youth sports access bill to Congress. The first two died quietly. The STRONG Kids Act arrives with a funding source stapled to the front — $10,000 to $50,000 subgrants to local providers — and what it means for your operation.
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