USD 504 SPORTSMANSHIP STATEMENT
October 27, 2005
In the interests of good sportsmanship and providing our students with a positive athletic experience, fans and spectators of interscholastic athletics are urged to:
- Learn the rules of the game.
- Show respect and courtesy for all players, coaches, officials and other spectators at every game, practice or other such sporting event.
- Not engage in any kind of unsportsmanlike conduct with any official, coach, player, or parent; such as booing, taunting or using profane language or obscene gestures.
- Never ridicule, criticize or make personally insulting comments to your child or other student participants for making a mistake or losing a competition.
- Emphasize skill development and practices and how they benefit student athletes as opposed to just winning.
- Never question, discuss or confront coaches at the game, but instead, take time to speak with coaches regarding concerns or disagreements at an agreed upon time and place.
- Refrain from coaching your child or other players during games and practices.
Student athletes are typically trying their best to compete as they participate in interscholastic athletics. It is inappropriate and demeaning to subject students to public insult, ridicule and criticism as a result of such participation.
"SPORTSMAN:
a person who can take loss or defeat without complaint,
or victory without gloating, and who treat his opponents with
fairness, generosity, courtesy"
Webster's Dictionary, ?? ed.
