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Eight sessions from LeagueApps' NextUp '26, Oct. 14 at Civic Hall in New York: the state of the youth sports organization, what investors actually want, how to lead parents, and what it means for the people running programs.

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Episode 3: Skye Eddy & The Sideline Project — Level-Headed and Sometimes Stressed

A youth All-American out of Reston, Virginia. Four years in goal at UMass and a fifth at George Mason, where she was Defensive MVP of the 1993 NCAA Final Four. Then the W-League with the Philadelphia Freedom, a season in Italy and a coaching job at the University of Richmond. And then Skye Eddy did the thing almost nobody in youth sports does: she stopped working on the kids and started working on the adults. Today she's the founder of Soccer Parenting and The Sideline Project, a fifteen-minute certification for the adults on the sideline, with a goal of a million certified adults by 2029.

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USA Hockey picked 29 programs out of more than 80 applicants for its new Development League, a 15U and 17U national tier that starts in 2027-28. Plus: a New Jersey club owner's 15% royalty on the team moms' jackets 🧥, a congressional probe of the AAU 🏛️ and where we'll be Wednesday 🎟️.

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