Championing Good Sportsmanship in Youth Sports
Why Enjoy the Game?
Negative emotions and improper behavior from coaches, parents, players and fans can ruin a youth sporting event by creating a tense, unhealthy atmosphere.
Conflict and problems typically surface when someone “crosses-over” and decides to play somebody else’s role. The most common are coaches playing officials … parents playing coach … and players playing officials. In order to maintain a positive and encouraging environment it’s critical that everyone, especially the adults, stay in their lane and play their assigned role.
The purpose of Enjoy the Game is to educate coaches, parents, players and fans on the Poor Sportsmanship Traps and the individual roles they play in every youth sporting event. Defining what it means to Enjoy the Game and then holding each other accountable will ensure everyone truly enjoys the youth sports experience.
Why Enjoy the Game?
Negative emotions and improper behavior from coaches, parents, players and fans can ruin a youth sporting event by creating a tense, unhealthy atmosphere.
Conflict and problems typically surface when someone “crosses-over” and decides to play somebody else’s role. The most common are coaches playing officials … parents playing coach … and players playing officials. In order to maintain a positive and encouraging environment it’s critical that everyone, especially the adults, stay in their lane and play their assigned role.
The purpose of Enjoy the Game is to educate coaches, parents, players and fans on the Poor Sportsmanship Traps and the individual roles they play in every youth sporting event. Defining what it means to Enjoy the Game and then holding each other accountable will ensure everyone truly enjoys the youth sports experience.
Good Sportsmanship requires everyone to FOCUS on the following. . .
F
Fun
That’s what youth sports is all about … kids having FUN playing games.
O
Others
Your behavior will impact others enjoyment of attending the event.
C
Consequences
Be aware your behavior will have a positive or negative impact.
U
Understand
Know your role and its importance in having a successful event.
S
Self-Control
Maintaining control of your emotions is critical to having FUN.
Enjoy the Game is a TEAM sport and it requires us all to. . .
T
Treat
E
Everyone
A
As
M
Myself
How Does the Program Work?
3 Easy Steps to Good Sportsmanship Success. . .
TRAINING
This is a critical step in successfully launching Enjoy the Game in any youth sports league. It’s very important that EVERYONE who participates fully understand and is on board with the Enjoy the game message.
RePurposed Coaching’s Vision Coaches will train all of your league’s team coaches in a 1-hour mandatory In-Person Coaches Training Session so they can train their players and parents in a brief pre-season meeting before their first game. All of the printed materials will be provided to each coach at that session to support their team training efforts. (Officials training is also highly recommended)
CLICK HERE to watch 10 minutes of a 1 hour Coaches Training Session
VENUE SIGNAGE
While the training step plays a key role in the launch of Enjoy the Game in the league … the training without regular reminders will only offer a short term benefit. The ongoing success of Enjoy the Game is in the signage (banners, stand-alone signs, etc) that is displayed at each of your fields or courts. This signage can be provided by RePurposed Coaching to not just be remind everyone to “Enjoy the Game” … but it can also be a tool to assist people in reminding each other.
‘GOOD SPORT’ INCENTIVES
As with any training, offering incentives to those who display what has been taught to them tends to not only solidify the learning but also will influence others to do the same.
Therefore, RePurposed Coaching will enlist the support and funding from a local business to champion bringing this program to your youth sports organization at no charge. Many of these Corporate Champions will also offer Gotcha! Good Sport Award Coupons for FREE product that coaches can give to players who demonstrate Good Sportsmanship in their practices or games.
Program Champions?
Program Administrator
RePurposed Coaching, Inc. (RPC) is a non-profit, 501c3 organization with a solid team of retired high school coaches that represent over 300 years of coaching experience with numerous district, regional and state championships. We’ve come together with the heart to RePurpose ourselves as Vision Coaches in order to freely and confidentially serve and support today’s active high school coaches.
Corporate Champion
Whataburger is a national fast food restaurant that have nearly 1,000 corporate-owned and franchise-owned locations in 14+ states.
To Learn More?
If you manage or participate in youth sports organization … any sport … and find it challenging to maintain good sportsmanship and civility at the games, contact Dave Francis, Head Vision Coach @ [email protected]. We’d love to see how we can help.
