Sporti — Evidence-Based Youth Sport Fit

Why it matters

Sport gives kids more than a scoreboard.

Kids who play sports they genuinely enjoy build confidence, discipline, and friendships that carry far past the field — and a good fit is what keeps them showing up. The right match today is what makes sport a lifelong habit instead of a season they quit.

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Confidence & Resilience

Learning to compete, lose, and try again builds a sense of capability that shows up well beyond sport.

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Physical Health

Regular activity supports healthy growth, coordination, and lifelong habits around movement and fitness.

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Social Connection

Teammates and coaches become some of the most important relationships in a kid's life — on and off the field.

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Discipline & Focus

Practice, routine, and working toward a goal translate directly into better habits at school and at home.

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Emotional Regulation

Sport gives kids a healthy outlet for stress and big emotions, with a coach and team to help them work through it.

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Long-Term Love of the Game

Kids who are matched to the right sport and coach are far more likely to stick with it — which means they actually get to keep all of the above.

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The long-term payoff

This isn't just about childhood. It's an investment.

The families who invest in this hardest often have the same two goals in mind: a great college, and a great career. The data backs up why sport is one of the highest-leverage places to start.

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Admission Odds

Recruited athletes at Harvard were admitted at roughly an 86% rate — vs. ~33% for legacy applicants, and a general acceptance rate near 3–4%. At many selective colleges, recruited athletes are admitted at 4–8x the general rate.

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Women in the C-Suite

An Ernst & Young study found 96% of women in C-suite roles had played sports at some point in their lives.

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Top CEOs

Research on top CEOs found that roughly two-thirds came from a competitive sports background — well above the general population's participation rate.

These are correlational studies, not guarantees — but the pattern is consistent: kids who stick with a sport tend to carry real advantages forward.

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How we assess the mind

A sport-fit profile, not a guess.

Every athlete completes a structured personality and motivation battery — the Sporti Athletic Mindset Inventory (SAMI) — built in-house and grounded in published research on grit, achievement motivation, and personality science. It's not a clinical or diagnostic test, and it's not borrowed from any single published questionnaire — it's our own instrument, designed specifically for sport-fit.

Research-grounded

Real constructs, original items

Eight dimensions — discipline, grit, composure, motivation, and more — each grounded in published, peer-reviewed research, scored through our own original questions.

Normalized

Age & sex matched

Every score is centered against same-age peers, not scored on an absolute scale — so a result actually means something in context.

How we assess the body

Real testing, real equipment.

Direct field measurement combined with standardized youth fitness testing, plus a non-invasive maturity-timing check so early development isn't mistaken for raw talent. Every physical score comes from an actual drill, run and timed the same way for every athlete — not a self-reported guess.

Speed

20m sprint, timed through laser gates for precision to the millisecond.

Young athlete mid-air during a standing broad jump assessment

Power

Standing broad jump, measured for lower-body explosive power.

Agility

Cone-based change-of-direction shuttle, timed for a real agility score.

Flexibility

Sit-and-reach box, measuring hamstring and lower-back flexibility.

Young athlete having height measured against a wall

Young athlete having standing reach measured

Young athlete with arms extended for a wingspan assessment

Measurements

Height, standing reach, and wingspan — measured directly, no estimates.

Balance

Single-leg stance, timed for static balance control.

Young athlete reaching to catch a dropped ruler during a reaction-time test

Hand-Eye Coordination

Ruler-drop test, measuring visual-motor reaction time.

Plus strength, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, assessed through additional field tests.

Weighted

Sport-specific model

Each sport in our model is weighted differently across dimensions, reflecting the research on what that sport actually rewards.

Bounded

No invented numbers

Where a reliable public figure doesn't exist, we say so — we never fabricate a statistic to fill a gap.

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Choose your track

One assessment. Two ways to use it.

Every roadmap starts with the same psychological and physical assessment above. From there, we build the report — and a live consultation to walk through it together — around what matters most to your family.

For finding the right sport

Best-Fit Track

$399

For families who want to find the sport their child will actually stick with — matched to personality, motivation, and physical profile, not just what's popular or convenient.

→A ranked sport-fit score across our full model, not a single guess
→Honest "start now" vs. "revisit later" guidance based on age and access
→Built around long-term enjoyment, not just short-term performance

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For recruiting and admissions leverage

College-Focused Track

$799

For families already thinking about recruiting and admissions — the same assessment, weighted toward NCAA participation odds and which sports offer the strongest realistic pathway for your child's profile.

→NCAA participation odds and division-fit guidance, by sport
→Recruiting-timeline context, so you know what's ahead and when
→A clear, honest read on where real leverage exists for your child

Book the College-Focused Track — $799

Both tracks end with a one-on-one conversation to walk through your child's results together.

Evidence

Built on published research, not intuition.

Our assessments are grounded in established, peer-reviewed research in sport and developmental psychology — not copies of any single published test. A sample of the research base:

Achievement Goal Theory — Duda, 1989

Competitive Anxiety Research — Martens, 1977

Grit Research — Duckworth et al., 2007

Self-Determination Theory — Pelletier et al., 2013

ALPHA-FIT — Ruiz et al., 2011

Mirwald Maturity Offset, 2002

FitnessGram — Cooper Institute

NCAA Research, Participation Data

This roadmap is a decision-support tool grounded in validated research. It identifies fit and gives you a clear, honest next step — it is not a guarantee of athletic or college-admissions outcomes.