Sportsmanship

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
1 indicates low sportsmanship, 5 is high

• Football
• Soccer
• Wrestling
• Triathlons
• Volleyball
• Ultimate

• Golf
• Lacrosse
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Baseball
• Hockey

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 childs 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
• AOutstanding BGood CFair DPoor FFailing