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Sportsmanship

Sportsmanship. What is sportsmanship?. Conforming to the rules of sport Can also include accepting winning and losing with maturity and grace My STORY in basketball Certain sports utilize/have more sportsmanship than others, WHY?. Football Soccer Wrestling Triathlons Volleyball

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Sportsmanship

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  1. Sportsmanship

  2. What is sportsmanship? • Conforming to the rules of sport • Can also include accepting winning and losing with maturity and grace • My STORY in basketball • Certain sports utilize/have more sportsmanship than others, WHY?

  3. Football Soccer Wrestling Triathlons Volleyball Ultimate Golf Lacrosse Basketball Tennis Baseball Hockey 1 indicates low sportsmanship, 5 is high

  4. Factors for sportsmanship • Influence/amount of referees/umpires • Amount of rules being enforced • Consequences of winning or losing • Any others?

  5. People responsible for leisure activities often seek recognition and respectability as sports by joining sports federations such as the IOC, or by forming their own regulatory body. • In this way sports evolve from leisure activity to more formal sports: relatively recent newcomers are BMX cycling, snowboarding, wrestling, etc.

  6. The formal regulation of sport is a relatively modern and increasing development.

  7. Children in sports • Problems of child sports • • Lost its child-centered focus, meaning less emphasis on the child’s experience and more emphasis on adult-centered motives, such as winning.

  8. Problems of child sports • • Suffering from the actions of over-invested sports parents, who maintain unrealistic expectations and fail to behave in a way that promotes the development of their own child and others. • • Failing to provide sufficient background checks, training and evaluations for coaches; who are so instrumental in the youth sports experience.

  9. Problems of child sports • • Focused on early sports specialization leading to burnout, overuse injuries and a hyper-competitive atmosphere focused on travel team participation at an ever-younger age.

  10. Problems of child sports • • Lost the voice of the child, who is participating in sports for his or her own goals, which experts say include fun, friends, fitness and skill development.

  11. AREA of REVIEW GRADE • Child-Centered Philosophy D • Coaching C • Health and Safety C+ • Officiating - C • Parental Behavior/Involvement D • Grading key for each topic: • A=Outstanding; B=Good; C=Fair; D=Poor; F=Failing

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