Do most people coach/volunteer on the board in youth sports to
confer benefits to themselves, their own children, their friends and a friend's children? Man, sometimes it goes to ridiculous extremes around where I live! Last year , we had a coach with the worst baseball player in the league go on the allstar team. The kid would not even stay in the batters box and would step outside , close his eyes, duck and strike out , swinging , or looking ,it didn't matter. Kid pitched all year too. Worst arm on the team.
A lot of it is about the parents networking business connections.
Good reason to take up running. Though I guess some of it can happen on running teams too. At least you can run detached if it gets really bad.