Name: Will Taschler

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Access, Equity and Inequity in Youth Sports

Date of Fieldwork: January 23, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Chris Klein

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Monday, January 23rd, 2023, my group interviewed with Chris Klein who is an LREI math teacher and varsity head coach. We reached out to him because he grew up playing many sports and is also a coach. He played multiple sports up until high school, but started to focus on basketball more.

We asked Chris his opinions about the inequalities with youth sports. He stated that sports are so important to kids because of the health benefits. He explained how it was so good for your health. Another positive he said that sports bring are friendships. He said that he worked in this summer basketball program and he noticed so many bonds being made and that made him happy. This explains how much sports can give to a person and for some people not being to access it is unfair. Chris says that he thinks there should be more non-profit, easy to access organizations for people of lower income.