Jeff Richardson, a physical education teacher and assistant baseball coach at Houston, rolls a baseball during a Friday morning session of his baseball training with elementary students. Richardson in recent years discovered and became a student of Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) and is bringing the new approach to sports to Houston through the formation of his organization United In Competition Sports Development.

As the father of two young boys, Jeff Richardson began researching youth development in recent years. What he discovered didn’t match what he always heard and even taught himself.

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