grade twelve years old baseball and basketball cattle fourth grade nine years old swimming and softball and lauren hope it's fourth grade nine years old swimming softball and basketball thanks for coming in today let's start with cat  good answer luke how about you is the same thing or is there other anything you can add to that yeah but you never want to brag and rub it in the other team's face if you're winning or you don't want them to do it if you're losing your oh of course of course cat how about yourself would what do you still like to see and when someone says you're a good sport what does that mean you're like that you never a like brag or like get mad or anything like you don't care give me when you're swimming what would a good sport do if you're in one lane and another swimmers the other one what's what what is an example or two good sport in swimming you don't really worry about the other people you just can join the middle school swim team it's a lot of fun and even if you're not that good at swimming that's a great so think about that but not too much but because all right so some of the great swimming talk about sportsmanship a little good sport if you feel better about yourself because they make maybe like complimenting you and  you so you're not having fun anymore so it's not a good thing if you run into a situation where you're some was you know you were beating them and so they were losing and they're now let me  so i move well i need to peers around about six and that's when i started taking lessons well i joined the swim team aus about six and a half or something about that so i was five when i start taking lessons cancelled early and i couldn't go to the money class because of memorial day and look back at your sports of baseball and basketball have you when did you start playing each one of those how were you when you started serving baseball and i was around four and i s an open this up to any one of you for any examples return in a negative situation something that was just not going great where a swim meet or tennis match or baseball or basketball whatever and just negative overall and something nice happened sportsmanship wise and it turned it around and made it into a positive situation you didn't have to win the game but you just felt better about yourself i mean sometimes when you lose you still can feel ok about it if you think you gave a really good effort or you think you're up against a much better opponent so any  examples and in the end you're your long list of play time and all these different sports he's going to pick one probable player when i first started playing softball and i got home and what's your favorite thing about playing to your true sports their league baseball basketball really competitive and i always like to win and i've always been on winning teams so i stick with all those sports but swimming softball basketball is playing on the teams that you're well i like so many a lot because i get to see my friends and i'm just really competitive so like every time i race it's just fun to see like if i went in to see if i got th time and in softball i just like to see my friends and it's really like unpredictable to see what i'm good what what i'm going to head to film that a strike out of i'm going to get a homerun or whatever i'm going to do then that's what i like well it's different than softball and what's your favorite thing about softball probably because like my favorite thing would be like you don't know what's going to happen like you get x i get got you in the both of those four was your dad your older brother probably was in your younger brother or sister because they probably be too small but who got you in how did that go i would probably say my dad got me into both the sports mean forced to get into town i think it was probably because like back in like fourth grade didn't really have much sports that i really like to do since i wasn't a big fan of soccer or so you were telling us off there that you were just recently in a tournament out of their tournament go for it well i was based there was like two different brackets thousand also on saturday i want i want to get this kid i lost six four six zero and then there and then the other one i lost six zero six two but surprise somehow but th think i kind of like skip the head but we decided not to go ok all right so that's your your tennis history there were to take a quick break here in another minute but when we come back we'll talk about all sorts of different that's why it's important to wash hands surfaces and fresh produce before we get back to the athletes i want to talk about a couple things we have with the peters taja park and rec center for both coaches and parents and actually the youth as well the first one is a book called the parent's handbook this talks about how to be a good parent to you the athletes you can pick this up at the rec center over peter's would park very very good very informative booklet here the second one is a coach's handbook these are also available all the coaches and if you're a parent through our program here with some sideline suggestions i'm going to throw a couple the sideline suggestions with our athletes talk about the suggestions and see how they feel about them we've got ten of them first one is don't yell out instructions and this is obviously an instructor instruction to the parents whether you should be whether the parent should put down the officials in any way shape or form parents should never put the officials down because it's not their game it's officials game and the parents aren't doing anything  watching and the officials are actually like making calls it's their choice for you know obviously here's another one that you see every once in a while which is it makes all the parents cringe when it happens don't yell at me in public so if you're seeing any of these parents yelling at their kids or even worse telling someone else's kid he during any of these team sports if you guys have been at of we not good so that means coach i was pitching and my coach was on fire and so they went to first there is an overthrow first i'm pretty sure or something like that happened and then they went to second and then they weren't allowed to go to sec this pretty much stealing or something like that and then so some on third they went home and they were allowed because they said it like stealing is a thing and then the parents got really mad and they just you know did the coach but back into a she yeah i don't think that was right to yell at the coach because he was the empire for that time sure that's good stuff to be especially if you're throwing in the effort of being a coach and an umpire that's a tough that's a tough one yeah you really have a lot of big target on your back maybe even on the front of you here's a good one don't put down my teammates don't put down don't make put down remarks about me my teammates make mistakes it takes away and from our team spirit if you guys agree with that is that whoever you are seen that we're even after the game you're saying hey if so and so would have done a better job i mean it doesn't make you feel good as you know now that you you know of course i'm sure we've seen that which we don't want to see about don't lose your cool if you're a parent now i'm not talking about the kids now playing sports you guys but the i'm sure the parents are real proud of but unfortunately they get so excited about the game that they could potentially lose your cool and now it's a tough one here's one that i think probably applies to almost everyone out there and i've almost been guilty of a been guilty this myself don't lecture me about mistakes after the game those rides home in the car after the game or not a good time for lectures about how i messed up already feel bad we could talk later but please stay calm and don't forget to mention things i did well during the  tough situation because the parents always feel the kids can do better and you know sometimes you know kids can do better but sometimes it's out of their control and it's just like it was like point a finger at this person or that person who my point now i don't know but all right so  that's certainly that's why it's the biggest one on the list here's a really critical one don't forget how to laugh and have fun sometimes it's hard for me to relax and have fun during the game when i look over and see you so tense and worried and that's of course coming from a youth out there parents on my team or their kids if their kid doesn't do that if they had a ground out araf loud or strike out they're sitting there and they're sitting or they're yelling at them or just angry not looking at them because it's competitive and they don't want them to or make a mistake and i think the most important thing point number ten is just don't forget that it's a game it's just a game especially the youth you know we're not playing for the stanley cup like the penguins here and even that's really a game for us fans you know we're just playing you guys are just playing a game you know to learn to be good sports learn how to exercise i mean you see if you ever seen people take it too far where they're going nuts and that doesn't make you feel very good as a as a as a youth out there now i mean so again these are all youth example and sportsmanship handouts that we have available at the  township recreation center rec center and at the front as you come in and ask for them and we have plenty of them to give out so let's get back into some more you know questions about you guys schoolwork is obviously the number one thing  time to do all the sports and do this well i usually do it when i get home so because we get home really late after swim practice so i don't really have time to do my homework and then eat dinner and take a shower and all that stuff so i usually have to do my homework right when i get home i usually do my homework right when i get home i get ready sometimes i have piano right before some practice so like i have to re rate before i usually i can't mess around because then i won't have time my i usually i'm like no i talk to my friend that school because i never have time to late text them or anything because i'm usually softball basketball so they're like that like richard what about yourself or how do you balance all these things if i have a game early after school i can't do homework i have to do it whenever i'm riding  in the car to the game or after late at night or sometimes in the mornings but if i have a little space in between the game and want to get home i do it as soon as i get home and try to get it finished  fifteen so are all usually like take the days right don't have tennis or anything and do more and more homework that day and then do like the like a little a little bit of it on the testings so brings up to get as many swim days as i can and as i can sure what on how many hours a week you play softball them i usually have practice once or twice a week which is about two hours and i have one or two games a week i'll leadership here and know you guys are fairly young you know we're looking at fourth and sixth grade but are are you seeing the leaders emerge on your sporting teams and clubs so far that you think are going to be the venture leaders the team captains and people who are pushing the other ones to perform better definitely the oldest kids on my team because every time i don't do that or anybody else they always pick us up and say i'll get the next one and that always makes everyone feel good so that's really good leadership about  different coaches of go with you because you have a bunch of different coaches look i like to arc us all my coaches there's not really like we all do practices in does not he does work one on one with us as much is just gives us coiners if we do something wrong all right so last question it's a fun question because we're only about thirty more seconds summer vacation but i was done with school here is only a couple more all right well i would like to thank you put a thank you out to our athletes for taking time out of their busy year and schedules to sit down and chat about sportsmanship which today's hypercompetitive focus on sports and academic achievement is important keep in mind the critical r sportsmanship always plays and remember being a good sport is always the right way to play