Is It Possible to Tell If Your Kid's a Good Athlete Before the Age of 15?
Skip to main content Is It Possible to Tell If Your Kid's a Good Athlete Before the Age of 15? Tanner Garrity, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail European Journal of Sport Science, athletic metrics before the age of 15 have virtually zero predictive value for future success, as reported by A team of researchers at Belgium’s Ghent University pored over records from youth cycling championships across the country, specifically focusing on the under-15, under-17 and under-19 age groups. Crucially, they looked at finishes from a while ago — from athletes born in the early nineties — so they ...