2-4-1 Sports | Steve Boyle

Steve Boyle is widely recognized as the national leader in sport sampling and physical literacy in the United States. He is a former Division 1 athlete and has nearly 30 years of experience in counseling, teaching, working with children with cancer, athletic and life coaching, as well as multiple entrepreneurial successes. Steve’s mission is to leave a sustainable legacy that will allow every citizen to gain the ability, balance, confidence, desire and explorative nature to be physically active for life. Recognized by the Aspen Institute’s Sport and Society Program in the original Project Play report for his sport-sampling approach, Steve works tirelessly to combat specialization in youth sports and wants physical literacy to be as commonplace and as expected as reading literacy and numeracy.

Table of Contents

0:00 - Introduction

1:30 - Steve's story and 2-4-1 Sports

13:30 - Overexertion and injury from specializing in one sport

22:35 - Balancing school and sport

31:35 - Change in sport relationships as the pressure to specialize builds

40:15 - How COVID-19 affects in-person sports and camps

48:22 - How to promote the importance of playing multisport
 
59:49 - Outro

The interview featured on this episode of the Love What You Play podcast originally aired live on For the Love of the Game's Facebook page and YouTube channel.