Introduction “You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going” (Wooten). Morgan Wooten is a high school basketball coach. He has a winning percentage of eight-six percent. As a coach, he has learned the value of a loss. When losing occurs, in reality the loser is actually learning. In society today, misguided youth sports reforms are attempting to remove the losing process from games. These reforms remove some of the most crucial childhood development experiences. When the scoreboard is removed from the field, the entire purpose of sports is thrown away, and when the drive behind sports is removed the entire developmental purpose of sports is lost on societies future generations. Research The implications of …show more content…
As these children grow up, with the scoreboard being removed, everyone wins, everyone gets a trophy. This becomes an issue in the children’s future. Being taught that there is no loss in youth sports, these kids are frozen at the first sign of losing. The sight of a loss when no coping mechanisms have been developed at a young age, is failure. All these children who have never lost see this failure and have not developed the skills to surpass the failure to succeed. These children who have not experienced loss are stuck at a standstill lacking a crucial part of character necessary to succeed in the modern world. When this issue is allowed to continue, society will see a general decrease in people who can handle all of the problems that are dealt with on a daily basis. Were the the scoreboard reinstated, and the nature of loss instilled in all youth sports, society would receive a wealthy population of society that has developed the necessary functions to handle loss and the vast array of problems that can puzzle people on a daily basis. The win-loss dyad should be maintained in youth sports so that these children develop the ability to handle a