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Healthier kids
Lower obesity, lower depression, higher self-esteem, better sleep and a habit of movement that follows them into adulthood. The benefits compound across 16,000 kids.
Premier Sports Leagues · The community case
Fun, engaging sports
for every kid
under one roof.
Easy to learn, fun to play multi sports for every kid in the community, whatever their age, ability or budget. One Premier Sports Dome puts all of it under one roof, all year round.
- 100,000
- People in the community
- 16,000
- Kids aged 5–19
- 1
- Dome, shared by everyone
- 12
- Months of play a year
Chapter 01 · The crisis
We are losing
them at thirteen.
Ask any parent why their child stopped playing and you will rarely hear “they stopped loving it.” You hear about the tryout they didn’t make, the team that split their friend group, the 6 a.m. drive, the coach who kept score in a seven-year-old’s game.
Organized youth sport has been organized around winning. Tournaments, rankings and rep pathways define the system, and children are sorted early — streamed onto tiers, cut from rosters, and separated from the friends they signed up with. The kids who need sport most are the first to leave it.
The ones who stay are increasingly the ones who can pay. Travel teams, private skills sessions and multi-season fees have turned a neighbourhood game into a household budget line. One in three children never gets to play at all because of cost.
And the facility hours that could save them are already spoken for. In most communities, prime-time gym and field hours are allocated to competitive programs first — rep teams, elite academies, leagues with the loudest schedule requests. What is left for recreational, multi-sport, just-for-fun play is late nights, leftovers, or nothing at all.
0%
of kids quit organized sports by age 13
Sport for Life — LTAD 3.0
0 in 10
kids say fun — not winning — is why they play
Aspen Institute Project Play
0%
of children are shut out by the cost of sport
CanPlay Report
0%
of parents worry about injury and safety
Ipsos
The allocation problem
The hours never
reach the kids
who need them.
Most communities are not short of interest. They are short of gym space at the hours that work.
Rep teams get the after-school block. Schools hold their permits. By the time recreational, multi-sport and entry-level leagues ask, the answer is a late slot, a shared court, or nothing.
The result is predictable: a child who could have discovered a sport never gets a first session.
Prime-time hours · after school and evenings
Illustrative
First pickCompetitive & rep programs
LockedSchool & institutional use
What’s leftRecreational & multi-sport play
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First pick
Competitive & rep programs
Travel teams, elite academies and rep leagues request and receive prime-time gym and field hours first — after school and early evening, the only slots families can actually use.
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Locked
School & institutional use
School physical education, varsity programs and permitted rentals hold their blocks. Those hours are committed before any community group sees a calendar.
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What’s left
Recreational & multi-sport play
The fun-first, low-fee, play-with-your-friends programming most kids need is offered whatever remains: 9 p.m. slots, split courts, half seasons, or a wait list.
A dome takes nothing away. It adds a purpose-built, climate-controlled season to the community’s calendar — twelve months of prime-time, multi-sport availability that does not exist on a booking sheet today.
See the domeThe broken landscape
Seven failures.
Seven design
answers.
These are not operator-level mistakes. They are structural failures baked into how organized youth sport works — and each one has a specific structural response built into the Premier Sports Leagues model.
The failure in detail
Tournaments, rankings and rep pathways dominate the landscape, so the system rewards short-term results over long-term growth. Every PSL program is built on Long-Term Athlete Development principles: skill acquisition, enjoyment and personal growth come before the scoreboard, especially in the early years.
The PSL response
Development-first programming
Chapter 02 · The dome
One roof.
Every kid.
All year.
A Premier Sports Dome is a purpose-built, climate-controlled, year-round multi-sport facility — and the operating model that fills it. One building, shared by every association in the community, running the kind of program that keeps a child in sport past the age when most of them leave.
Sports kids can play under the roof
FloorballFutsalFlag footballUltimate frisbeeBlitzballPickleballHandballDodgeballSpikeballKin-ballTchoukballNetballFloorballFutsalFlag footballUltimate frisbeeBlitzballPickleballHandballDodgeballSpikeballKin-ballTchoukballNetball
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All-season by construction
A climate-controlled roof means no rained-out seasons, no winter shutdown, no refunded registrations. Twelve months of programming, every year.
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Multi-sport by design
Multiple court configurations in one footprint — floorball, futsal, flag football, ultimate frisbee, blitzball and many other low profile recreational global sports kids want to discover.
03
One calendar for everyone
Every association, school and league books from the same schedule, with protected prime-time hours for recreational and entry-level play.
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Built for participation
Not an expensive professional arena with spare hours. A community facility designed around the child who wants to play sports with their friends and have fun.
The Premier Sports Leagues model
A different
reason to play.
Community volunteer leagues run on goodwill and inconsistency. Private independents run on one owner’s capacity. Elite pathways run on exclusion. The PSL model takes the best of each and removes the parts that push kids out.
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No tiering. No cuts.
Kids register with their friends and play with their friends. Nobody is streamed, ranked or released — there is no tryout to be allowed to play.
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Multi-sport, one membership
Discover, learn and experience several sports instead of specializing at six. Early sampling is what builds confident, durable athletes.
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Development before results
Seasonal curriculum aligned to Long-Term Athlete Development. Coaches are evaluated on skill growth and enjoyment, not trophies.
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Fun is the KPI
Nine in ten kids play for fun. We design sessions, groupings and feedback around that, and we ask families every season whether we delivered it.
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Affordable by design
Low seasonal fees, equipment provided, no mandatory travel. Cost should never be the reason a child sits out.
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Culture that is coached
Screened, trained coaches and an enforced code of conduct — so respect and inclusion are taught, not left to chance.
Chapter 03 · The impact
What one dome
does for
16,000 kids.
This is the whole case, sized to one community. Every number below is framed against a municipality of 100,000 people — roughly 16,000 of them aged 5 to 19 — because that is the scale at which a council can say yes.
0
kids aged 5–19 in a community of 100,000
Statistics Canada, 16.2% aged 5–19
0
kids in that community will quit by 13 at today’s rate
70% dropout — Sport for Life
1 in 10
as likely to be obese when they stay active
Aspen Institute Project Play
40%
higher test scores for active kids
Aspen Institute Project Play
15%
more likely to attend college or university
Aspen Institute Project Play
50+
local roles in a single-dome operating model
Planning estimate
The evidence, charted
What the research shows,
in six outcomes.
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Better futures
Active kids score higher, attend post-secondary more often and earn 7–8% more as adults. Sport is one of the cheapest interventions a community has.
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A healthier community
Active communities show 10% lower obesity, 18% lower high blood pressure and 3% lower heart disease, along with higher property values and graduation rates.
04
Local jobs
Dome operations, program staff, trained coaches, officials, concessions and student first jobs: dozens of year-round roles and hundreds of seasonal opportunities, all filled locally.
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Hours that don’t exist today
Protected prime-time hours for recreational multi-sport leagues, after school, evenings and weekends, twelve months a year, without displacing a single existing permit.
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A shared civic asset
One facility every school, association and family can book, instead of five groups competing for the same eight weekly hours.
This presentation is about community impact only. It does not include investment terms, financial projections, construction costs, dome revenues or franchise information.
The evidence base
The same case,
in the research.
Active kids do better in life
What the research consistently shows for children who stay in sport and physical activity.
- 1/10 as likely to be obese
- Up to 40% higher test scores
- 15% more likely to attend college
- 7–8% higher annual earnings
- Lower depression, higher self-esteem
- Less smoking, drug use and risky behaviour
- Lower lifetime health costs
- More productive at work
Source: Aspen Institute Project Play
Active communities do better
What residents gain when a community invests in places and programs to move in.
10%
lower obesity rates
18%
lower high blood pressure
3%
lower heart disease rates
Higher
property values
Higher
graduation rates
Lower
unemployment
The gap is facility access. Most communities already know activity matters. What they lack is a place to run it in the hours families can use — and a program model that does not filter children out.
Sources: Aspen Institute Project Play · ParticipACTION Report Card · Sport for Life LTAD 3.0
Chapter 04 · The closing case
The right model.
The right roof.
Every chapter of this case comes back to one decision. Most communities do not need more sports programs where “winning at all costs” supersedes the life skills and values sports bring to kids. It needs a place and sports platform that keeps them in the game having fun, being encouraged and feeling like they belong there when they play.
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The model keeps kids in
No tryouts, no cuts, no tiers. Kids register with their friends, sample several sports before specializing, and coaches are measured on skill growth and enjoyment rather than standings. That is what holds a child past the age of thirteen.
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The roof makes it year-round
Twelve months of play and protected prime-time hours, without displacing a single existing permit. Without a roof, even a model built for every kid runs for a short outdoor season.
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One asset serves everyone
Schools, associations, clubs and families booking the same building on the same schedule, instead of five groups competing for the same eight weekly hours. One dome is a civic asset the whole community can point to.