As far as a site that had data for youth sports, I think I found the best one. It is an article written for ESPN that tells all the hidden statistics about youth sports in our country.
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9469252/hidden-demographics-youth-sports-espn-magazine
In the article they had many findings about different demographics that people don't necessarily think about everyday or know about the trends of youth sports.
This graph shows that urban kids are slightly less likely to participate in sports that those kids in suburbs. Suburbs usually hold wealthier kids and a greater draw to sports. I think that I could use this to analyze many different factors of youth sports. For instance I could look into why girls are less likely to participate in sports in some areas but are closer to those boys in rural areas. I think that there are also many factors that go into the slightly lower percent of kids participating in sports in Urban areas. This could because of poverty or just other attractions.
Being a girl that thought of sports as one of the biggest parts of my life as a child, I thought this was very interesting. The amount of girls that think that sports are a big part of their life is very different than the percent of boys. I find this graph sad because of all the underlying reasons why girls might not have the same mental stance as boys about sports. This could because people generally think that boys sports are more interesting/professional and maybe girls are taught that liking sports a lot is not girly or something that society outwardly accepts all the time. This is not true in all circumstances of course but, sadly, in the US it is something that girls have to face.
All the graphs and data came from the article on the ESPN website: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9469252/hidden-demographics-youth-sports-espn-magazine
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