Until It Hurts: America's Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids - Hardcover

A provocative assessment of the damaging nature of ultracompetitive youth sports considers the consequences of high-pressure athletics on children and their families, in a report that traces the author's investigations into prestigious youth athletic clubs and associations throughout the country.

Mark Hyman is a journalist, frequently contributing to publications, such as The New York Times and Sports Illustrated, and he was a former writer for BusinessWeek and Sports Business Journal. In 1998, he assisted Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Jon Miller in the writing of his memoir, Confessions of a Baseball Purist. He has appeared on panels and led workshops for the Sports Lawyers Association, the American Press Institute and the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2010 he was honored as one of 18 Sports Ethics Fellows by the Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island and the Positive Coaching Alliance at Stanford University. He currently teaches in the sports management program at George Washington University.