Linda Flanagan: Youth sport in America: Where we are, how we got here, and why it matters

The Department of Sport Management and the Institute for Coaching Excellence are pleased to host Linda Flanagan. She will give her talk, “Youth sport in America: Where we are, how we got here, and why it matters,” on February 16, 9:35 in FLG 210. The visit is supported by the Tom and Susie Wasdin Speakers Bureau.

Date: February 16, 2023

Time: 9:35 AM

Location: FLG 210

LINDA FLANAGAN is a freelance journalist, researcher, and former cross-country and track coach. A graduate of Lehigh University, Flanagan holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and was an analyst for the National Security Program at Harvard University. She is a founding board member of the New York City chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance and a 2020–21 advisory group member for the Aspen Institute’s Reimagining School Sports initiative, and her writing on sports has appeared in The Atlantic, Runner’s World, and on NPR’s education site MindShift, where she is a regular contributor. A mother of three and a lifelong athlete, Flanagan lives in New Jersey.