I do. Thank you so much for asking that.
I constantly refer back to swimming lessons. You don't usually join a swim team until you get to a certain level of your swimming lessons. We go into sport and, as you said, it's the Wild West. We're not making sure that some of the kids have the technical skills to move up in the sport appropriately. There are reporting systems for each sport to assess kids, but they don't do it. We need to actually assess the kids and let everybody know what's happening.
As you're implying, we're asking a lot of volunteers. You don't go to swimming lessons and not pay the lifeguards or instructors, so you're asking the volunteers who don't have the background to be teaching the skills that they may or may not be able to effectively teach.
For example, in hockey, are they doing CanSkate before they are actually playing hockey games? Skills coaches in hockey are brought in to kind of supplement the program, but it's not mandated. I would think that you should probably have proper skating skills before you're involved in getting hit and checking in the sport.
There are things that I would change and put into place to keep them safer physically, but I don't want to take too much time here.