Steve Sell

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Steve Sell
• Athletic Director Aragon HS
• Dan Burns
• Assistant Superintendent
• Salinas UHSD
• Ed Buller
• Athletic Director
• Oak Grove HS

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CENTRAL COAST SECTION

• For the past 25 years the CCS has focused
  attention on Sportsmanship Character Building
  while students coaches representing
  self-team-community and school
• Evidenced by the positive feedback we have
  received at Nor Cal and State Championship
  contests.

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CENTRAL COAST SECTION

• Many programs and processes have been implemented
  to create this environment
• CCS Sportsmanship Committee
• CCS Sportsmanship Contract
• 50 Sportsmanship Ideas from CCS schools (see
  white handout)
• CCS Sportsmanship Toolbox
• CCS Sportsmanship Seasonal Newsletter (see multi
  colored handout)
• Recognition certificates for schools
  participants that exemplify exceptional
  sportsmanship

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Utilize existing programs to model your school
  such as
• (See multi colored Handout)
• CCS Sportsmanship Web Page
• Pursuing Victory with Honor-CIF
• Josephson Institute-Character Counts
• NFHS Learn
• Positive Coaching Alliance
• NIAAA

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• NFHSLEARN.COM
• Online Resources
• Sportsmanship Course Free
• The Role of the Parent in Sport Free
• Teaching Modeling Behavior 20
• Engaging Effectively with Parents 20
• Creating a Safe Respectful Free
  Environment Course
• Sportsmanship Its up to You
  19.95
• (Toolkit)

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Develop a school wide Sportsmanship Committee
• Principal-AD-coach-student-parent-staff
  member-activities director
• Develop a Sportsmanship Mission Statement
• The Sportsmanship Mission Statement should be
  closely aligned with existing Schools Mission
• Based solidly on character development
• Basic premise for athletes is to learn and have
  fun

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set School Sportsmanship Goals
• Examples
• No coaches/players or parents removed from
  contests the entire year
• Every visiting team will be welcomed by school
  personnel before contest
• Begin each contest with sportsmanship
  statement-preferably read by a team captain

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Projects
• Create a fun, interactive, innovative environment
  for all stakeholders with projects focused on
  good sportsmanship
• This will help stakeholders embrace the concept
  of good sportsmanship school wide

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Creating a Sportsmanship CultureSome
Ideas

• Create a school motto
• The Baler Code
• A Baler is
• Respectful
• Responsible
• Honest
• Civil
• Tolerant
• Caring
• Courteous
• Courageous

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Create a sportsmanship video
• Use existing technologies to be innovative
  creative
• You Tube
• Sportsmanship section on school websites
• Present
• Palo Alto Video

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Develop and School Sportsmanship awards program
• Certificates
• Lanyards
• T-shirts
• Sportsperson of the game-selected by opposite
  coach and or officials
• Great Opportunity to use the sportsmanship motto
  or school monikers

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Teachers-Coaches
• Emphasize
• Mission, goals and prioritize and address
  sportsmanship issues.
• Coaches Code of Ethical Conduct Expectations
  (see handout)
• Remind they are the gate keepers of good
  sportsmanship by their examples and their behavior

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Teachers-Coaches
• Emphasize
• Mission, goals and prioritize and address
  sportsmanship issues.
• Coaches Code of Ethical Conduct Expectations
  Checklist (see Buff colored handout)
• Remind they are the gate keepers of good
  sportsmanship by their examples and their behavior

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Teachers-Coaches
• One man practicing good sportsmanship is far
  better than 50 others preaching it-
• Knute K. Rockne

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• PCA
• Honoring the Game-see green colored handout and
  exercise

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Activities Director, Cheerleader Advisor Band
  Director
• Emphasize
• Positive messages to athletes and fans
• Importance of Good Sportsmanship
• Effect they have on the crowd and players
• They help set the tone for the contest

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Student-Athletes
• Emphasize
• Principles of Sportsmanship and Expectations
• Pursuing Victory with Honor principles
• Representation of self-school-community family

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Parents/Guardians
• Emphasize
• (See Orange Yellow Handouts)
• The schools sportsmanship goals and mission
  statement
• Their sportsmanship responsibilities for their
  children and themselves
• Their need to model sportsmanlike behavior at all
  times

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Parents/Guardians
• Emphasize
• High School athletics are educationally based and
  not a club model
• Remind parents it is not about them
• Show applicable NFHS video presentations at the
  pre season meetings such as
• The Role of the Parent in Sports

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Set up Pre-Season Meetings with
• Parents/Guardians
• Be proactive expressing the expectations of your
  school to parents
• Set some guidelines for sportsmanship
  violations-including penalties, such as
• Mandatory watching of sportsmanship video before
  allowed to return as a spectator.
• Yellow cards at games for out-of-control parents
  or fans

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Fans Yellow Card

•  FANS YELLOW CARD
• This Yellow Card is being given to you as a
  warning
• That your behavior may not be appropriate for
  this
• Educational setting. Realize that your
  admittance is
• a privilege to observe a contest and support high
  
• school activities, not a license to verbally
  assault
• players, coaches or officials. The students
• participating wrote the following message for
• you.
•  "It's not your game, it's ours, the players and
• athletes that are competing. We hope the
• spectators will watch, enjoy, encourage and
• be proud of us, win or lose. We need your
• support and enthusiasm, not your yelling
• and criticism."

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Develop Crowd Control Guidelines
• Be proactive in preparing for games
• Avoid tense situations through communication
  cooperation
• Make sure there is proper home visiting
  supervision
• Make the visiting teams feel welcome

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• Develop Crowd Control Guidelines
• Have a good ingress and egress for spectators and
  athletes
• Crowd control Checklist-see blue colored handout

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Creating a Sportsmanship Culture

• The CCS will continue to model, develop and
  expect good sportsmanship across our section
• We cannot do it alone
• Continue to be part of this great tradition
• We want everyone to know that we come to play
  hard
• while
• Pursuing Victory with Honor.