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It would be easy to look at hockey phenom Chyna Taylor’s résumé and assume she was SportsKid of the Year material from the start. In 2024, when she was just 15 years old, Chyna was the youngest player on the U-18 national team. It made her the first person from Kentucky to ever play at the national level in men’s or women’s hockey. And at the world championships in 2025, she was named best player for her team when the U.S. took home silver against Canada. On a more local level, she also excels.

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Carter Bonas calls his autism his super power, and he’s leaned into it as he’s become a competitive golfer, an entrepreneur and an advocate. SI Kids: Sports News for Kids, Kids Games and More | Nov 23, 2022 Carter Bonas calls his autism his super power, and he’s leaned into it as he’s become a competitive golfer, an entrepreneur and an advocate. Go behind the scenes with the 2022 SportsKid of the Year, Carter Bonas. Additional footage courtesy of Jacqueline Jimenez. Published Nov 23, 2022

At the playground outside Perkins Elementary in San Diego there’s a mural. It features an oversized kid sitting on a small planet Earth, staring off into space. On the mural are the words sueña grande, and right above that is the English translation: dream big. Not far from the mural, on a winter Monday afternoon, cones have been set up around a basketball court and balls have been distributed to a group of 12 or so kids.

With over a billion dollars in sales worldwide, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time. The original was released in 1999, winning over a generation of fans by giving them access to the kind of extreme skating they could only find on TV. The game was about as authentic to skating culture as you could possibly get, and is the reason why THPS has become as much a part of the history of skating as skate parks themselves.

If you skateboard, you're going to fall down. A lot. No one knows this better than Tony Hawk. Perhaps the most well-known skateboarder in the world, Hawk has fallen countless times, in big moments and small, like when he became the first person to ever land a 900 in competition. The 900 (two-and-a-half mid-air revolutions) took him years of attempts, and officially, 11 tries on the ramp at the 1999 X Games before he made history.

Justin Herbert can afford all the eggs he wants. He just doesn't want to buy any. Back in the summer of 2023 he signed a contract extension with the Los Angeles Chargers that pays him more than $50 million per year. That doesn’t mean the 27-year-old quarterback is out there blowing money. When he’s at his home outside Eugene, Ore., Herbert likes a big breakfast. So he’ll make eggs laid by the chickens that live on his property. “My brothers and I go down there and get 10 eggs a day,” Herbert says.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend a day meeting NHL players, showing off your hockey skills, checking out NHL memorabilia, and getting to know the league's 32 mascots?

Do you think that hockey cellys are better than touchdown dances or vice versa? Hockey cellys, like Patrick Kane’s “heartbreaker,” are certain to make you Do you think that hockey cellys are better than touchdown dances or vice versa? Hockey cellys, like Patrick Kane’s “heartbreaker,” are certain to make you smile, and fans go crazy for touchdown dances like the Seahawks’, “If It Isn’t Love,” boogie. Are touchdown dances better than hockey cellys, or do hockey cellys take the cake?

Think about everything you know about gymnastics and cheerleading and imagine them combined into a single college sport. That sums up Acrobatics & Tumbling, which is taking big steps to become a major NCAA event. Acrobatics & Tumbling takes poise, power, strength, balance, adaptability and so much more! These traits were on display earlier this month at a meet at Morgan State. There were 20 heats broken up into six different events: compulsory, acro, pyramid, toss, tumbling, and team.