Heard in Rye: Youth Sports: “Take Back the Game” with Linda Flanagan

Please join Heard in Rye on Thursday, October 23rd at the Rye Free Reading Room from 7:00-8:00PM as we welcome Linda Flanagan for a presentation and discussion of her book Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports—and Why It Matters.

Calling all YOUTH SPORTS parents! Join Heard in Rye on Thursday, October 23rd at the Rye Free Reading Room from 7:00-8:00PM as we welcome Linda Flanagan for a presentation and discussion of her book Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports—and Why It Matters. The first 75 attendees will receive a free copy of Linda’s book courtesy of Heard in Rye.

About Linda:

LINDA FLANAGAN is a freelance journalist, a former cross-country and track coach, and the author of Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids’ Sports—and Why It Matters. A graduate of Lehigh University, Flanagan holds master’s degrees from Oxford University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and was an analyst for the National Security Program at Harvard University. She is a founding board member of the New York City chapter of the Positive Coaching Alliance, a contributor to Project Play at the Aspen Institute, and a regular writer for NPR’s education site MindShift. Her columns on sports have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Runner’s World, and she is currently co-producing a documentary series on mental health in collegiate women athletes. A mother of three and a lifelong athlete, Flanagan lives in Summit with her husband, Bob, and a small menagerie of pets. She is still floating over Malcolm Gladwell’s recent claim that Take Back the Game was one of his favorite books last year.