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influences and poor role models <br /> Decrease in organized, competitive interscholastic sports <br /> At -Risk Youth <br /> Gangs and drugs <br /> Gang activity <br /> Tendency toward crime and other undesirable behavior in children without a sports outlet <br /> Lack of developmental programs <br /> Growth in gangs, broken homes <br /> - Breakdown of discipline in social structure of youth <br /> Attitude of wanting more for "less" <br /> Individualism <br /> - Fat, lazy children <br /> Youth need activities as alternatives to idleness <br /> - Adolescents are excluded/limited forgotten too often <br /> Odds and Ends <br /> Not putting right people into leadership roles <br /> - Too many competing groups (Kidsports, YMCA, AYSO, Babe Ruth) <br /> - Keeping sports in perspective ensuring a positive experience for all <br /> - Everybody.. .Somebody,..Anybody...Nobody... "Nothing happens if we don't do anything" <br /> - Perception (or reality) of rotten weather <br /> Lack of "major" airport; cost of flights <br /> - High pollen count <br /> - Perception by parents, and support of athletes, too much trouble to take them to events or too <br /> much time away from home etc. <br /> - Perception that Eugene is "anti-government" <br /> - No destination point <br /> - Lack of "professional" athletics <br /> - Lack of close proximity to any professional athletics <br /> OPPORTUNITIES <br /> Sponsors <br /> - Continued interest in sports despite lack of financial support <br /> - Sports oriented community <br /> Government coordination in drawing major events <br /> - Sponsorships by large corporations of sports or individuals <br /> - Funding source to draw major events <br /> - Addition of 4 organized newly added sports at L.C.C. <br /> Metro Sports Committee development <br /> - Political "clout" when working together <br /> - This group - joint efforts to reach a common ground <br /> City taking a more active role in youth <br /> - This group can help get amateur athletic sponsors <br /> - Metro Commission has influence <br /> Take, advantage of benefits through private /public partnerships <br /> - Coordinate decade metro strategy for facilities, events, and enrich local lifestyle <br /> - Elimination of sports in school makes for great opportunity for central goveming body <br /> This group can do a lot to tell the public about lesser sports <br /> - Opportunities for public/private partnerships and public/public partnerships <br /> 6 <br />