With few exceptions, 2020 and 2021 were not banner years for team sports participation or sales, female or male, but as the pandemic enters the endemic phase and spring arrives, renewed hope and fresh opportunities for the team market are blossoming.

Girls’ soccer is back on the pitch and the newfound momentum among schools, clubs and select teams is good news for dealers and soccer specialty stores alike.

Prior to the pandemic basketball was on a tear, with total participation jumping 11.4 percent from 2019 to 2020, according to the SFIA’s 2021 Topline Report. The organization also found that basketball was ranked the number one sport that kids ages 6-12 and 13-17...

Spring is a time for renewal and rebirth — and this year for the full return of a girls’ fast-pitch softball season. That news is as welcome to team dealers as warmer weather, lower gas prices and on-time delivery of the products they ordered for the season.

Lacrosse’s soaring popularity has spread well beyond its Northwest and Mid-Atlantic base, it continues to attract youth and high school players and is still the fastest-growing college sport in the country.

Five pages of the hottest, trend-right and technically advanced new products for girls’ and women’s sports as chosen by the editors of Team Insight. There is no shortage of new products being designed specifically for the female athlete as team sports return to a sense of normalcy...

Team Insight Goes 1-on-1 with Mary Dolan, Owner/CEO, Pro-Am Team Sports, Schererville, IN. Mary Dolan’s initial career was as an employment and domestic relations lawyer, but after she took some time off when her fifth child was born and she was ready to go back to work she decided to...

Well known to the team sports industry as a maker of wrestling apparel, 50-year-old Brute Athletic Apparel is now expanding from that most macho of sports into women’s custom team apparel.

Flying in the face of pandemic woes and an accompanying drop-off in participation, women’s volleyball had a banner year in 2021. Highlights included the debut of a professional league in February, a gold medal sweep in the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games...

Baseball is in an unusual situation. For the first time this century and for only the second time in nearly 30 years, Major League Baseball is involved in a labor dispute. That causes fans to shake their heads in disgust and retailers that sell MLB-licensed merchandise to get a little nervous.

The leadership of youth baseball in the U.S. is optimistic that local recreational baseball leagues will play out their regular seasons in 2022. Their joint level of optimism follows some promising experiences in a somewhat disrupted 2021.