oh yes t v show i'm john yaka a member of the peters township parks and recreation board you're probably wondering what the yes t v show is well it's a youth example for and sportsmanship show where i sit down and meet with youth that leads from peter's township and discuss sportsmanship today show the show is focus on the peters township girls lacrosse team so we're going to get started introduce our athletes we have three athletes safe from girls across well our main job is the draw controls at the beginning of the game we have to get the ball and bring it down to attack but we basically did all of the attack and ok so it's good and next to her we have emily anderson emily your position is in attack mode yes and what is the attack role on the cross so basically we're just working to get the ball from the midfielders and for basically the main components to score ok and then next to her we have jamie  jamie your goalie so most people probably know what a goalie does so what what does a goalie do yes we are the last line of defense when it comes down to the attackers trying to score on goal we are meant to take the hits either physically or blocking with our six to keep the attackers like emily here from getting in the goal and winning the game ok so just to start off some easy questions how is the season going so far i understand we have big  last night it's going pretty well yeah we have we finally be we lost our first game against other st clair and that was a big defeat and this next one we won by was it two goals  and it was a really nice relief to have it that we won after such a strong defeat and it put us down but now that we are back up and we're on a winning streak it feels really good to one against someone we lost to before  not make it we made it to the first round of playoffs and then last so putting that in this year all right now are the harder questions real general what is sportsmanship mean to you individually i feel like sportsmanship means like having  aspect for everyone on the field like your own teammates the other team the referees all the coaches in just regular spectator everyone i think it means just being like both respectful winner and respectful loser like respectful to the other team and to your own teammates even though you messed up like everybody's messed up during a big loss and everybody's done something right during a big win so at the end of the day as long as you're about the spectacle and bring each other up from those wins and losses that's all that matters and that's what makes a good sport now i know in the there's a lot of focus now you know with all this alter competitiveness in sports and you know i'm sure your parents probably go watch a lot of these games your how do you talk to your parents to make sure they're good sports up in the stands you know not not yelling out inappropriate things or are making you guys or girls feel like wow if that's my mom or dad over there because i'm a parent myself with kids in sports so i'm always worried about that yeah i feel like we all talk to our parents and sailing town embarrass us because a sober thing for the team and everyone is like they're screaming things that they were asked and there's really nothing that they can do so  if you strongly disagree with they strongly disagree with the official call what how do you handle that i would say we either take it to the speaking captain or the coach and just let them handle it like you never want to like yell at the ref on the field or like make a scene or anything you know i think most of the time we just kind of let it go because there's really nothing that we can do  how does sportsmanship affect the way you're playing the game like it things are going well and people are being good sports is out affect you even if you're not having the best result in the game overall if the team's winning in the team is doing a good job it doesn't matter about my individual like accomplishments during that game it's a fact that we're winning the fact that we're all doing well and that we're going to win this game at the end of the day it doesn't really matter to me if i had a good game or a bad game it just matters that we won and we all all together we pulled off that way and we all did a great job to get that big one i didn't necessarily like the coach that we had when i was coming up to the high school so my dad during my eighth grade year was just like you know you're probably going to want to find a different sport because you know as well as i do the coach up position but i'm down but i don't mind that at all so i ended up most people don't like playing goalie cause i don't like getting hit but after playing football i was just like i can deal with this just fine so my good year ended up joining us or some persuasion from my and a couple of friends to join the lacrosse team and ended up studying it and i was really good and i enjoyed it a lot to be on a team with a couple of my friends and a sport that was going to probably take me somewhere into my college career we're going to get to college in a second here are still some time emily how did you get involved with the cross what was your path i started macross in fifth grade and it was mainly from one of my other berg she kind of got me into it in ever since then i just loved it so i never wanted to stop and then air same question here actually coincidentally was also mara who got me into a cross we had played basketball together in sixth grade and i was new to the school in sixth grade like i was looking for things to get involved in and she just really encouraged me to just child cross and see how it went and i ended up loving it so easy follow up what's your favorite thing about playing lacrosse back my everything up playing lacrosse is just like being a part of a team kind of like girls who play lacrosse it's like they're going to my friends forever like it's just it's really important me like to be a part of a team and i just like the support of across you know i was also going to say being a part of a team like just like our team is so cohesive and we all get on weekends out of school outside of school and on the field so it's really nice to have instant group of friends that you can always do anything with and i think that's my favorite part jamie of besides getting hit in the goal i would definitely say being part of crusting it's nice to have a good place to have a good laugh during practice but also get serious there's a lot of great women on the team that just like make things enjoy it will make the game fun make score a little bit better rather than typical high school life sure what other sports you ladies play besides lacrosse competitively for the high school or just you know recreational with your friends when you're trying to let off some steam but it's it's nice to go and relive some of the older fun i used to have with sports i guess coming up what in about a week or two is the powder puff in your powder vs seniors game or any of you ladies participating in that  are you are you playing lacrosse during the season versus off out of the season i think three of practice five days a week for one and a half or two hours past the game so you'll be gone for five hours both days in the and we all three of us are on a travel team together with summer so that's like three hours a week plus four or five tournament's out on the east coast so it's a lot of time i would say like just for high school season it's like fifteen hours a week or something around there fifteen and then in the summer you're a playing a sport makes my time management important so like it just it's taught me to like manage my time better and it it makes for a lot of late nights but that's just the way it has to be i guess  he we have a two minute count here coming down two minutes left that are until we hit commercial ory i think ok what's an example from the season so far you've had something crazy happen where you know you've used sportsmanship to get you through that you know something that was bizarre or you know unexpected or just like a bad break where you know sportsmanship amongst your team or from even the other team or even from the coaching brought you to the next level got you back in the moment to be successful i would say the best for parking that we had last week it seemed like everything was going against us like every single call was in buffalo park favor in our coaches call a timeout and just say we can't retaliate and we have to keep calm and be respectful towards everyone and we ended up winning the game so i think that really worked in our favor for me personally as a goalie when you see multiple balls go in and you can't stop a single one it gets really hard for a goalie because it's just like i'm supposed to be the one saving that i'm supposed to be the one that gets us through this game and win this game as well as our attack does but when you see mother won't go in and can't do anything about it because they're just wacky shots or they're just such good shots that like you really can't do anything else except to the your ability when a player comes down and like talks you up and like gives you a small pep talk it really helps to bring your mind back into it right we're going to take a quick break here and come right back and get into some more interesting questions that i'm sure everyone at home watching know all  it nurses brings us together and adds flavor to li that's why it's important to wash hands surfaces and fresh  you're searching girls across but i think it's because a fight is girls across until you reach college or even after college then it's considered a women's across all right all right i know some viewers are wrote in during the break real quick and they wanted to know how do you how do you girls balance school work and play sport i know we kind of talked about that a little bit but as a group what's the consensus here i go home right after school and get all my work done so i can just go to practice and learn come home and go to bed but i think it's kind of tough way you can't miss school because if you missed school you can't practice or play in the games so we have to really pay attention to what our body is telling us like we can't get sick we have to just push through everything definitely use my planner a lot like if there's anything not on my plan or i'm going to forget it or i'm going to miss it like my planners my number one way to make sure i have everything done on my plate if i have a meeting or something like that for like after school or whatever it is i have i have to use a planner to be able to be organized and be able to stay on track with all my likes sports and my schoolwork i'm kind of similar to emily i whenever i get home from i get like most of my homework done then but sometimes that's tough because like sometimes you have more homework than that so i'll often have to do it after practice too and then i'm tired but that's just the way  asked another viewer came up with the leadership skills that you're learning on an on a team sport and basically will say girl power or young lady power whatever let's talk about that how do you how do you feel yourselves developing as leaders i know you're all three or juniors on the team for this interview i talk to your coach and the coach i said coach i want the future leaders the people who are the juniors that are probably going to be the go to girls for next year  to talk to them about leadership in sportsmanship so how do you feel leadership plays and you know how you're developing with your team leadership is definitely something that's affected me more when i first started playing i was a little bit hesitant to like talk to people and be open with people but the more i've played and the closer i've gotten to girls expressions are sophomore class i've become a little bit more comfortable i've definitely  which like if someone is feeling very down or didn't feel like they were going to their best ability i know how it feels so i definitely like to try and bring them up because expression if they stole one but they felt like they had a bad game they need to focus on that when rather than what they did wrong but as a team as a whole because it's just like yes it was bad but at the end of the day we all want together you helped us win this game you were definitely a big contribution and that matters a lot more than the things that went wrong everybody has something that goes wrong during a game or everybody has something that goes wrong during a day but it's important to know that it will be ok we can move pas and we have another day coming and you can years it's still all ok nobody's mad at you for what you did nobody is mad at you for anything like that you know i think that all three of us are really good leaders to the underclassman and i think we just tried to and make everyone feel like they have a place on the team and kind of include them in everything i think that's really important because it's sometimes hard to try out for a sport or you don't know if you're good enough and i just to be supportive for everyone it's like taught us a lot of important skills in my yeah like as a captain this year i think that there's like we try to include all the under class and by having like team bonding activities in like being we're like we're leaders to them back on and off the field so just try to make them feel welcome and like that they want to be here and hopefully they'll come back next year now you mention juniors you were on the team last year so you're probably almost automatic to be on it but how do you is upperclassman prepare for the trials for the for the incoming freshmen or the sophomores or so we have a drop in starting in january which aren't mandatory but they're suggested that you go and we do i go out of running conditioning and worry we doing strength building in the in the first or child's we have to prepare for running this three mile so we we get together usually a few times with the whole team without the coaches in like go to the track and practice running that because it's really like about your mental toughness for that yet i think if it's also important like what you like the week of trials like you can't like you can't just jump in stuff you have to focus on that tail but also like he said like going to drop ins  like running beforehand not just showing up in like thinking that you'll be able to run the three mile and you know the three mouse is always the big killer for everyone no mother even if you have run in the past years it's still i think kills you and it's just something you really need to prepare for whether it's mentally or physically and you need them both but like definitely running with the team or just running by yourself to get that extra like little training lot because the three miles is probably the hardest part of me when i heard through the proverbial grapevine of peter's township here that there were some people during trials that maybe didn't complete the three miles and kind of tr to sneak by with not doing three miles before twenty they did so as leaders of the team now what do you do with sportsmanship in mind but also unforeseen hey everyone has to do the three miles this is part of what we do as a tr know i think that's just like i'm except the one i think the seniors reach out they try to be like supportive someone like that didn't finish it so i go up to the coaches and tell them like you have to admit that you're wrong sometimes and it might be hard but like the coaches who have a better impression of you if you admit that in it's only one actually it's not a big deal ok now jamie i think from our conversation off camera you're the only one that is really committed to play lacrosse in college is that yes accurate aaron amalie are you you're not going to do look cross in college you think any other sports in college you think you might pick up or just comma i think i my play field hockey in college i think i'm just going to focus on lack of derrick ok that's that's that we need more people let's get some good academics i'm jamie you're going to is it robert morris i see it i am if i am going to robert morris i committed sophomore year so i've known the coaches through my travel team during the summer and i really like the campus and i really like their engineering program so i thought it would be a good fit are you going to continue in the goalie role there or do you think you could move into a different role now i've never been anything else except for goalie so for those viewers at home including myself that don't know much about the cross we have attackers we have goalies and we have the other one was the midfiel any other position besides those three in the cross defenders ok defender even on the defender representatives here now ok what do you expect going into next season i know it's going to be you know you're going to be the seniors you know that's always swimming this year came in second it with buells and they had i think seven or eight seniors so girls lacrosse next year you have a lot of seniors can you win with deals and what if this year i think i think if we're going to win it a year it would be this year because now like we have seven seniors graduating this year and they all start so i think next year it's going to be a big adjustment for everyone the rebuilding yeah like i think it's going to be a rebuilding year ok so this is that this is the time to get it  i would be hopeful that we could do it again next year but there's so many good ladies that are leaving us this year that this is honestly probably our best shot considering our section and the other sections that we have to play i know it was tough watching tennis they got all the way to our biggest competition all the time is mt i've been in there just like we have a lot of really fast people on the team who they all play on our club team so we all know them but that means that they're playing together how i know we have a temporary interim head coach care what house care to work with as the head coach she's she's really good she's like a really relatable coach like she tries to relate to us and she is yeah she she's like a g she knows what's best for the team and everything she's definitely i like her because she does make things a lot easier to do things like it's much easier to like approach here and stuff like that and it's a nice way to like relax a little bit because we can still stay on topic but we can also get in a slight laugh with her which makes it a lot easier especially for a big game that we're probably all stressing about a good little laugh can probably ease the tensions a lot which is really nice to have a final question nothing to do with the cross whatsoever but prom poles you know i have a daughter who's a senior in high school and you know she's been through a couple of these problems of problems or what's the crazy prom pulls a story heard for peter school this year doesn't have to be one of you three just what you've heard i don't really need direct names either got thirty seconds or forty five seconds one day of practice and boy interrupted practice in climb the sense to ask a grown arcane to prom any other stories is a pretty good story any other ones yesterday there was a prom proposal for the morning announcements and it was one of my friends and i and we were just all a little bit shocked at what happened think that basically wraps up our time here i want to thank erin emily and jamie for spending some time here and in this studio and talking with me and talking to all the people out there in the peters township television land taking time out of their busy may schedules to sit down to chat about sportsmanship which today's ultra competitive focus sports and sports and academic achievement it's really important to keep in mind what is important and remember being a good sport is always the right way to play thank you