National Junior Rugby League Players' Experiences 2017: Players' experiences and the impact on retention rates

Abstract

Sport participation during adolescence (10–18 years) offers many immediate and long-term benefits; including the formation of positive physical activity behaviours, development of life-skills and physical literacy, and cognitive and social functioning. Policies and strategies that promote enjoyable and challenging Junior sport experiences will encourage greater participation as well as target personal and social development outcomes. Importantly, youth sport involvement can lead to outcomes classified as the 3Ps: performance, participation and personal development. The 3Ps are central to youth sport systems aimed at providing quality experiences to participants (Côté & Hancock, 2016).