Team sport can help you achieve your health and fitness goals while enhancing your social and mental wellbeing. It can also help reduce stress and promote wise choices such as abstaining from alcohol and smoking.
What is team sport?
Team sports are any sport in which players interact directly and simultaneously to accomplish a goal. It is common for the goal to involve teammates facilitating the movement of a ball or other similar item in accordance with a set of rules, in order to score points.
How do team sports differ from other conventional groups?
One distinctive feature of sports teams is that they have a fixed roster size as specified by the rules of the game and/or the league. This means that the team’s members compete with each other for playing time and starting positions.
This can be an effective form of teamwork if the coaches are encouraging competition. However, it is important that the coaches also encourage cooperation and coordination among the members to ensure performance success.
Young athletes need to feel included in a training group that is characterized by supportive relationships and that offers opportunities for learning and development, regardless of performance level. This can be done through a variety of techniques, including inclusive training groups, rather than early segregation based on skill levels (Evans, Eys, & Bruner, 2012).