sportsmanship today show is focused on peers township boys lacrosse the boys team recently won with us for the first time in school history with me today are tanner scott junior midfielder in stoppard's junior midfield captain two thousand and seventeen all section end all with beal and shawn cabin junior defenseman two thousand and seventeen all section guys first off i understand there is a big game last night in the p a tournament against mannheim tow it go well we lost thirteen to five i mean overall we had a great season so it was ok so let's back up and how did whitfield's go because that's much more exciting situation to talk about so let's talk let's talk about what  first i mean how big the tournament who'd you guys have to play to get to the championship and then what were the challenges in their well we played swiftly the first round which was a pretty easy game and then after that the three  after that they were all one goal games we punish them by one now to be shady side in the semis in overtime and then the championship was double overtime against no i wouldn't double overtime yeah so how long is overtime session in a lot of pressure sometimes gotcher well let's talk about sportsmanship because that's what we're here to talk about so individually what is sportsmanship mean to you it's just respecting the other team and we're all here to play lacrosse  respect them ok in any basic tennis said just going out there playing a horse on the field and then after the game just showing rio team proper sportsmanship and respect along with them having you know good respect for other players and the other team mates on the field showing a positive attitude on the field you know you never want to show any discomfort or any bad forms disrespect on the field us want to keep that pretty respectful with the team and players how big of a road is fish eating playing lacrosse and i mean there's fouls and stuff like that i mean is that a big big issue when you're when you're playing these games because with negative attitude comes that playstyle us what how does sportsmanship affect how you how you're playing i mean if it is when you're playing the game itself i mean i mean i can take it both ways like if the other team is chippy or disrespectful and anger the team in me and maybe play better more grasses but if my our team is playing good with good energy on the sidelines and being to when you first started playing whenever that was when however your you were and what got you involved with it i think i started in fourth grade and continued to play every year and i mean i played baseball  yeah sixth grade i played a little recreation league wasn't really interested in it didn't really find what i was looking for in the sport when middle school rolled around i had a buddy tell me that  play and see the teen and see how they're looking so i didn't sound on the passion for the sport that i have right now on it do you play rec league as well as obviously you're on the high school team but there's are also directly exist you guys are involved in at this stage or just high schools just high school but i think most of the kids on the team plane like club yeah that's a nightclub not not rex or club so you guys are also in other clubs  you play in the peter's records when you guys were younger yeah dodger what other sports do you guys play besides lacrosse right now i play football basically just situation into a positive one relying on some your sportsmanship knowledge and you know positive attitude like things are going bad but something turned around for our loss against buffalo park was a very  our season but i think our sportsmanship and positive energy kept us and it made us bounce back and we ended up doing pretty good season we had some difficult situations  d multiple games where we would come out of halftime down two or three goals so we knew we were losing at the time but as a team we talked it out figured out we were doing wrong to compromise our mistakes and we came out with a positive attitude in a multiple circumstances came out and turned the tide and put up four or five goals to eventually win the game for our team there i just love how like the environment when you're with your friends and the family and it's all like we're brothers and practices are really enjoyable so you can just fall in love with everything you know just playing with him from the team i think this year's all the players are held to a certain respect level by the coaches we're all you know tied together pretty closely so let's talk about tryouts because you know when there's a lot of anxiety sometimes with kids and their parents and different high school sports and activities where people have to try out some sports you know it's very hard to try out some sports not really much of a try out how what's the trial it's like for varsity and i see you  three hour practice probably an hour and a half of running conditioning or lifting and then the other hour and a half of playing lacrosse gets pretty much going for ten i said it's pretty i guess it's difficult in some ways coming out as you know someone you know will cross over and here you know coming in freshman year you're probably not going to expect what we have for a child's they're very different going from middle school in my freshman year i was not expecting the child at all what about any sort of skills competition all been talking about you know intensity running lifting all that i mean do you have to know how to do handle a stick and all that sort of stuff too or it's just so you could run you know ten miles and lift whatever the left is i mean it's i think a lot of like sco work for the actual sport comes from like the winter training and the coaches get to see who you are and then in trials you'll get to like compete against like a while on one level and see how you do against other players doctor so what's the what's the breakdown how many people make or see how many people are on the j v team and how many people just don't make it at all approximately i'm  not i don't they do not cut any freshman and i don't think they cut anyone this year really just depends on how many people china fell across this season there's a really large amount of people trying out and there may be anything else is just like another mediocre peter season so it was there any special preparation you did this year during the season that made you you know get there or yeah this year this coach is just basically changed almost everything i call a practice is go and how we act and how we talk to the coaches and everything they finally just like took it upon themselves and changed the whole program pretty much we were a lot more disciplined this year yet i just worked very hard to have more disciplined throughout the teens come together more of it more as a family so that discipline started i assume it practices then you guys were practicing a lot a lot harder a lot more less goofing around i mean what kind of changes did you see between last year and this past year and in previous seasons i feel like we were together a lot more in practices and it was more positive energy like now it would put each other down and like the dress code and everyone just took it way more serious like when you go in a way meets you have to dress up then is there a dress code the day that's left to like our captain to decide more of the dress code is more  welcome back sean yaka here along with the peters township boys lacrosse team talking sportsmanship boys team recently came one with us for the first time ever peter stanch history which is a great job as i mentioned before i want to talk about leadership though a little bit in sportsmanship in leadership so guys how does leadership play into being a good sport you know i think this happened this year of leadership was huge because we had two junior captains and two senior captains and in the situation we were in this year just the way the year when certain kids had to step up and really take charge of the team especially in the playoffs i think a place more into the when you know we have our head down and we're losing in not very motivated we kind of rely on our captains to kind of pick us back up and tell us what you know to motivate us to get back out there what to do balance across all the practices all that stuff versus all the schoolwork that you have on the other hand which hopefully you're doing real well with i think the biggest key is just being proactive and like having almost a set schedule for like when you're going to do your homework or when you're going to study and when you're going to practice the cross go with with ten or proxies are always at the same time so you have time to come in from school get your schoolwork done and then go to practice and then having study hall and school house because you can use that time to get over schoolwork done thing another thing that was an extra helpful aspect to that on the team this year was one of our coaches  works at the school as a teacher so he would always make sure that no players on the team were you know slacking academically in any way or hold you accountable for that and you know obviously if you were slacking in would you rate your coaches for this past year i mean obviously other successful very successful year i mean how much is that on the on the coaches shoulders our head coach got twenty seventeen coach of the year so i was awesome and he's a great coach turn over then to have to adjust to coaches going to whip yields this year you know you had never gotten past the first round and to go get past the first round when that first game i guess or i think there are sixteen teams that make th and not only get past the first one but you know win the next three what kind of pressure what was the experience like for you guys as a team and individually i mean did you get a lot a lot of pressure a lot of excitement and how did you feed off of that as a team i would say there's played into it i think there was a lot of pressure are on us personally just because we never made it out of the first round of playoffs in our previous seasons it's something big for us to keep you know driving and make it to that with the again in the end yeah i think playoffs this year were pretty intense just how close all the games where but everyone just stayed motivated and we did what we had to do win the championship you know i think once we got over that second playoff round of pirates on that was probably one of our toughest mental games because we play them early in the season and didn't come out with a how i stick my balls oh yeah yeah iraq good good good good some hardware superstitions you know everyone always talks about different superstitions in different sports i mean some people don't want to change certain parts of their clothing some you know whatever it is what kind of crazy superstitions do you have the lacrosse team the last playoff games i remember my mom would make me the same food always have chicken sweet potato fries and bagel bites before every game ok not do i guess as a teen i get a lot of i've noticed a lot of the players we used to dress up on away games or big gains we would dress you know and ice clothing compared to casual short or  something but a lot of the team in the end didn't want to continue doing that because the more we did that we just happened to lose his jersey and so this kind of like a little  superstition they had where we didn't want to dress anymore even in the playoffs we would dress up for the games it just was something the team didn't want to do as a whole to keep the business as usual not draw any undue attention to your exactly how was the rest of the school like kids that graduated a couple years ago last year shout outs from previous across people what kind of every every team has like the unsung heroes in the stand out players and all that what who do you guys want to mention specifically here talk about it all it's might it really came through this year when it counted or just been there the whole time i think one player that stopped up was a freshman a macall and he had an overtime goal  was pretty much like the young saying here really contribute to the team and we need them to and came up in big times and big places about injuries this year did you guys have any significant injuries where you you know lost a lot of  my favorite topic other than sportsmanship of course but you know when i was in high school here peters township way back when there was no such thing as a prom pozo but the singers come out of the blue in the last five or ten or fifteen years so you guys have any good prompt hosel stories that are going on well let me back up are you going to the  kid on their team asked his this was a girlfriend at halftime if she would go to prom with him and right after that on the opening face off of halftime he got completely destroyed so it was pretty funny did she say ye yeah taken to by yoga all right ok well thank you to all our athletes for taking time out of their busy end of your schedules to sit down and chat about sportsmanship with today's hypercompetitive focus on sports  academic achievement is important to keep in mind the critical world sportsmanship always place and remember being a good sport is always the right way to play