I have 20 years of experience, and specialize in the field of teaching and coaching with specific knowledge in the areas of youth sports, sport psychology and sport sociology. I have published on such topics as youth sports, gender issues and sports and sport psychology. Serving as a youth sport consultant for the Amateur Athletic Foundation and as a volunteer youth soccer coach in Los Angeles, CA during the early 1990s I became frustrated with the excessive emphasis on the needs of the adults that were running the programs. I addressed the necessity to shift the focus in youth sports to the needs of the kids.