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The youth sports environment is significantly different today from the one experienced by those who grew up before the 21st century. With travel teams, tournaments, and state-of-the-art facilities, the youth sports industry is evolving from an era of children playing sports for fun to one that resembles professional sports. A major societal shift has also occurred in the way children play. Children are spending less time playing outside than their parents did, and most children’s play is highly structured and supervised by adults. Dr. Dave Hutson’s presentation will take a multi-faceted approach to exploring the evolution of children’s play, the societal influencers of play, the rise and fall of youth sports and unsupervised play, and a new vision for youth sports

Dr. Dave Hutson is chair of the Department of Sport Studies, professor of sport studies, and director of the Sport Leadership master's degree program at Rochester University

Awakening the Sleeping Giant. This lecture provides a review of the lead-up to the Pearl Harbor attack, the attack and its devastation on the US Naval Fleet, and the US response.