“Benched: The Crisis in American Youth Sports and Its Cost to Our Future”

House Committee on Education and Workforce (subcommittee hearing) · December 17, 2025

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Chair's opening and witness introduction

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Unidentified chair opened the hearing, framed declining youth sports participation as a national problem and yielded to the ranking member; introduced witnesses and set a 3-minute oral presentation limit (up to 5 minutes per committee rule).

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A House Committee on Education and Workforce subcommittee hearing examined declining youth-sports participation, focusing on rising costs, private-equity consolidation, and proposals to expand access through data collection, local partnerships, antitrust enforcement, and redirected funding.

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