Trends · data through September 2026

Youth Sports & Activities in the United States

Iceflower tracks 294 stores from 8 youth sports & activities in the United States. First Tee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of KidStrong and Zero Gravity.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
8
Tracked stores
294
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked youth sports & activities

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F First Tee logo First Tee ▲1 +15.6%
2 K KidStrong logo KidStrong - +8.6%
3 Z Zero Gravity ▼1 -32.0%
4 G Goldfish Swim School logo Goldfish Swim School - -44.0%

Store footprint

Store map

294 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Goldfish Swim School (93)
  • The Little Gym (85)
  • KidStrong (51)
  • Soccer Shots (19)
  • First Tee (17)
  • Zero Gravity (9)
  • i9 Sports (15)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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