About Page

Hen­ry Wyard at grad­u­a­tion with sis­ter (Paris Wyard) and moth­er (Susan Ver­rochi). (Pho­to tak­en by Croce Verrochi)

My name is Hen­ry Wyard, and I am a junior at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut pur­su­ing a dou­ble major in Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Jour­nal­ism. I have played sports for near­ly my entire life, and loved every sec­ond of my time in youth sports.

In my town, youth sports was every­thing, near­ly all of my friends that I have made at home came from shar­ing time with them on the soc­cer field or on the bas­ket­ball court.

Even from when I was a young child to now, what sports kids are play­ing and how they are being played is dif­fer­ent. The cur­rent land­scape of youth sports is whole oth­er world now com­pared to what it used to be like, and I thought it was would be inter­est­ing to see how such an impor­tant social con­struct for chil­dren has changed over the years.

 

Get in touch with Hen­ry at: henrywyard@yahoo.com
Fol­low him on social media on twit­ter @Hank1515 or Insta­gram: @henrywyard15

Head­er Images:

Home Page: Child play­ing goal­keep­er. Pho­to by Sun­ny­bright on AdobeStock
Time­line: Girls in soft­ball hud­dle. Pho­to by Action­spics on AdobeStock
Cost of Youth Sports: Base­ball dia­mond with fans watch­ing. Pho­to by Action­pics on AdobeSotck