Read Stories of Professional Players

The website Dallas Stars Care (http://www.dallasstarscare.com) features stories of professional hockey players talking about their youth sports experiences including:

Steve Ott

Philippe Boucher

Marty Turco

Visit the Dallas Stars Care website to read about these players and more.

Probability of Competing in Athletics Beyond the High School

From the NCAA website:

Student-Athletes	Men’s Basketball	Women’s Basketball	Football	Baseball	Men’s Ice Hockey	Men’s Soccer
High School Student-Athletes	549,500	456,900	983,600	455,300	29,900	321,400
High School Senior Student-Athletes	157,000	130,500	281,000	130,100	8,500	91,800
NCAA Student-Athletes	15,700	14,400	56,500	25,700	3,700	18,200
NCAA Freshman Roster Positions	4,500	4,100	16,200	7,300	1,100	5,200
NCAA Senior Student-Athletes	3,500	3,200	12,600	5,700	800	4,100
NCAA Student-Athletes Drafted	44	32	250	600	33	76
Percent High School to NCAA	2.9	3.1	5.8	5.6	12.9	5.7
Percent NCAA to Professional	1.3	1.0	2.0	10.5	4.1	1.9
Percent High School to Professional	0.03	0.02	0.09	0.5	0.4	0.08

Note: These percentages are based on estimated data and should be considered approximations of the actual percentages. Click here to view the methodology used to arrive at these estimates.

Publications

Sports Esteem’s training manual Hockey Workbook for Mini-Mites, Mites and Squirts and its parent education book Building All-Star Kids have been released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. In addition, the Hockey Workbook will eventually be placed into a Wiki so that others may offer their feedback and guidance to keep the Hockey Workbook up to date. To download the these publications, click on the page tabs at the top of this blog.