Learn how the Salt Lake County park and recreation department changed its youth sports by changing the game.
When the carnage ended, the scoreboard revealed that the girls utli-oth grade basketball team that had signed up for the league as an intact unit had defeated their opponent by more than 50 points. Across the Moor was a thoroughly embarrassed and discouraged group of girls from the losing team, each of whom had signed up for the league as an individual. One month earlier, those girls had appeared at the park and recreation office, registration forms in hand, as excited novices eager to learn a new activity that seemed to promise fun, fitness and new friendships. …