Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on talent identification and development systems in youth sports.

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on talent identification and development systems in youth sports. Talent identification can be defined as the process of recognizing players who have certain talents, which can facilitate their success in sports in the future. Talent development, on the other hand, refers to the creation of a learning environment so as to realize the potential of the identified players (Pankhurst and Collins 2013, p. 234). Talent identification models have been questioned severally where people claim that they are not scientifically proven. Research has shown that the traditional talent identification model known as the cross-sectional design has been problematic for many club teams and national federations in improving the players’ performance. The problems posed by the model include the use of wrong variables in measuring the current players’ performance, maturity related problems, dynamic nature of youth talents and their development and focus of a limited range of variables in determining performance (Whitehead, Telfer and Lambart 2014, p. 101).

The cross-sectional designs focus on predicting success in the adult by measuring the current sports performance in adolescents. The measurement of sports performance is mainly based on physical, psychological, tactical characteristics of the adolescents. As stated earlier this talent identification model has posted a lot of problems to the club teams and national federations (Cater and Fraser-Thomas 2011, p. 75). The model requires that you extrapolate the particular characteristics that lead to success in adulthood to identify and nurture the young talented players. However, it has been revealed that the youngsters who have these characteristics do not necessarily mean that they will perform well during adulthood.&nbsp.