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.
Coaches Training
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.
Coaches Training
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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 can train all of your league’s team coaches in a 25 minute In-Person Coaches Training Session or you can ask them to watch the Coaches Training Video on this site. This will assist them 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 to support their team training efforts. (Referee/Umpire training is also highly recommended)
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 will be provided by RePurposed Coaching with your league’s Corporate Champion logo on it to not just remind everyone to “Enjoy the Game” … but it can also be a tool to assist people in holding each other accountable.
CLICK HERE to view our Gallery of sign options for various indoor and outdoor venues
‘GOOD SPORT’ INCENTIVES
As with any training, offering incentives to those who display what has been taught to them will 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 hundreds of 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 and youth coaches.
In addition, RPC has developed, offers and implements a Sportsmanship education program called Enjoy the Game to any youth sports organization. As past high school coaches we recognize that in order to impact sportsmanship at the high school level it is important to train both players and parents in basic Sportsmanship principles during their youth sports experiences. Our goal is to raise up the next generation of coaches, players and parents to Enjoy the Game.
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.
