Abstract
Match Running Performance and Positional Demands of a U9 Female Soccer Team Competing in a Parks and Recreation-Sponsored League
Highlights
Within the United States, soccer ranks third in participation rates with an estimated 11.9 million total registrants [1]
This study aimed to examine the athletes’ match demands via wearable Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, with the hope of linking data observed at the recreational level with the data that have been published within the rest of the youth development system
The purpose of this investigation was to describe the match play characteristics of female youth-athletes participating in parks and recreation league U9 soccer
Summary
Within the United States, soccer ranks third in participation rates with an estimated 11.9 million total registrants [1]. The most recent data demonstrates that approximately 2.3 million children between the ages of 6-12 play the sport of soccer on a regular basis, equating to 37% of all youth soccer participants While this segment of the sporting population serves as the second-largest pool for athletes under the age of 19 [2], little to no scholarly literature exists on youth-soccer match demands within the United States. This gap in the literature comes as a disadvantage for domestic youth-soccer program providers and global proponents of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) alike. LTAD deals with the construction of a longitudinal curriculum
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