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Done properly, youth sport really is a gateway to all the things the cliches say it is: improved confidence, lifelong exercise, friendship and personal growth.
Dedicated used retailers like Play It Again Sports have slowly disappeared, leaving the in-person used market to stores like SportWheels that have areas of their shop dedicated to used gear. It’s also always worth checking with your child’s sport organization themselves. Some associations have sets of loaner gear, or can help network with other parents to locate perfectly good equipment that’s sitting unused because it was outgrown.Charlottetown’s George Halliwell, former president of Charlottetown Minor Hockey, started a gear exchange in 2012 that he and his brother Chris have been running ever since.
According to Jeff Mayhew, co-owner of SportWheels Sports Excellence in Lower Sackville, N.S., used equipment has never been higher in quality. - Unsplash Stock PhotoA large, prominently located and clearly labelled bin at the UPEI rink is the core of it. Anyone can donate gear by dropping it into the bin and, periodically, the rink will call Halliwell Consulting at its downtown office and someone will come empty the gear.It’s a model Halliwell believes would be easy to emulate elsewhere.
“I feel like the selection pool of used is smaller, but what’s available is much nicer than it was years ago."At SportWheels, Mayhew has formalized a program to continue the work his dad did informally.
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