Sports Training Services NAICS 611620

Aug 4, 2025 - Sports Participation may Cut Suicide Risk In Teens, Preteens

• An analysis spanning more than 800,000 students finds that middle and high school students who participate in sports are significantly less likely to report suicidal thoughts or behaviors. Sports participation decreased from 57.4% of high school students in 2019 to 49.1% in 2021, however, and has remained consistently lower than before the pandemic, according to the “Assessing the Association Between Sport Participation and Suicide Ideation and Behaviors Among Middle and High School Students in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2023” report. The decrease was exacerbated by increasing participation costs (which disproportionately affect students from low-income households), the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing psychosocial challenges, according to the study.
• A federal appeals court has struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s “click-to-cancel” rule that would have required many businesses to make it as easy for consumers to cancel subscriptions and memberships as it was to sign up for them. Click-to-cancel has been praised by consumer-rights groups but many fitness industry stakeholders argued that the rule would have exposed the fitness industry to unnecessary and costly operational burdens, according to Athlete Tech News. The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit opinion said that the rule suffered from “procedural deficiencies.”

• Increasing expenditure on sports training and development for children has become a key driver sports training demand, according to Allied Market Research. Awareness of the benefits of engaging in sports activity, such as increased concentration and problem-solving ability, supports the growth of sport industry and industries related to it. The sports training market was valued at $11 billion in 2021 and is expected to reach $18.85 billion by 2031 at a compound annual growth rate of 5.7%, according to Allied Market Research.
• Sports training service sales are forecast to increase at a 4.52% compounded annual rate from 2025 to 2029, faster than the growth of the overall economy, according to Inforum and the Interindustry Economic Research Fund, Inc. Sports training industry employment increased slightly during the first five months of 2025, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.