sportsmanship today show is focused on peter's township youth soccer with me today are lauren manual fifth grade mcmurry elementary school youth soccer elementary soccer and swimming thanks for taking some time out of your busy schedule to talk about sportsmanship first question tell me a little bit about yourself name what sports you play any brothers and sisters in like that think wow irish wolfhound or just a wolf and he's an irish why wow my wife really wants to get iris will off to check with you after the show and your mom and dad to see if we can see your daughter lauren what about you and you're basically just play soccer any other sports i have played basketball ok it's i like soccer but well let's start with you bella what got you involved in sports in the first place way back when while i first started out in lebanon but then i really wasn't doing any more but then i felt i thought about it for like two years after and then i thought i want to do it again my mom in my grandpa and my dad were really into soccer so they probably got me certain to in the first place ok how about you are and how did you get involved with a well splaying soccer about two years ago i was in the car with my mom and i decided like i want to try soccer nobody really know plays it but i decided to be a fun sport and i'm still playing and then i get ok so you play for about two not taking it out on the other team or your players when you go to well how about you what a sportsman should mean you well it's not really when you're you're not supposed to be bragging because then the other team would feel bad like what if the other team did that to you you would feel bad to about yourself you wouldn't feel good about yourself and you should always cheer of peer teammates if they feel bad if they're not doing good or if they think they're not doing good not necessarily not doing good everyone's always doing good ok who teaches you to be a good sport larn like in you in your in your athletic career so far has been the main people that have been showing you how to be a good sport but you bellow who is teaching you about sportsmanship on a day to day basis well my dad is the coach for both teams i play travel and rec so he's the coach for both we normally couldn't play because for one for some reason the refs don't call her name on the on the roster and she wasn't there for some reason so she got in play but she was always encouraging us on the sidelines even watching house play she she still thought it was a really good game even though you scored like two goals but we did lose but i thought it was a pretty good game for her and she was in a lot of play yeah because she wasn't listed as a player gets to the yeah on the official wall street and i dug on contact with the soccer association and he got her back on the list again so she's ok how about in the end of the soccer games you guys  the other team or what we line up and we say good game with the other team and just like high five the other team and that's pretty much what we do anything in the beginning  game now you know oh i don't think so ok let's play ok yeah you two both are in fifth grade or so how many days a week did you have soccer practice is just one day we or more than that why oh well counting the games i have four days a week playing soccer wow i bet you are you're not as much or so not a ton of time playing soccer week but still some amount of time in your in your list in your list of activities so how do you balance this soccer playing plus your other activities and your schoolwork or i mean we'll go with bella first since you started soccer is we normally start at seven thirty at night so i have lots of time to do my homework and other things i need to do around the house all right have it how do you want how do you balance the school work and the records eleven fifteen and you both are what ten or eleven yeah yeah we're turning a lot so you're both ten so so you're right on the lower end of the on the age group so that the older the older girls are showing the younger ones a little bit more what's going on from a leadership perspective since they have more experience last time you played did and i was kind of going down but then i passed it and then the girl kicked them but it went out a little bit too far so we had to throw in and when the other team someone from my team intercepted it and passed it to one was playing on defense which and don't normally play defense but i thought i played pretty good on it because i blocked a lot of goals out that could have been goals from the other team are well we're going to take a quick break  you welcome back to the us t v show again i'm john yaka today with lauren and bella talking about peter's youth soccer a couple days before we get back to the interview i have a few booklets here to talk about we've got a parent's handbook that's available at the peters township rec center also a coach's handbook also available at the rec center and a nice little parent sportsman checklist this is really good for some of the parents at home watching this talk about sportsmanship when to go through a couple  days real quick i maintain a fun is number one attitude in new sports i treat officials my kids their teammates and our plans for the respective warding put downs ridicule or sarcasm on the field and off the field i remind myself and my kids a laughing keep a sense of humor on and off the field and i teach my kids by giving a good example of good sportsmanship without winning without gloating and losing without complaining there's a bunch more on here these are all they all bought the rec center take a look at them i've given them to our youth athletes here today and i've been around the parks recently giving us some of the other participants and youth sports but very important you know as parents to keep the focus on the youth and go from there so again back to laura bell talk some more fun stuff here bella same here it's not it's different here but i think i did pretty good this year and how do you feel that you're giving it your best effort though i mean what makes you say i'm doing a great effort versus an average effort  midfield is probably my best thing my best spot to be now since i can do what i did both last season but then now we can do midfield which make like now i can be in th it oh great great great how about you know everyone has mistakes while they're playing you know during the season lauren any mistakes the season that you've made and more importantly than the mistake which i want to hear about or want to how much you're about what how did you offensive players and they snuck it in but bounced right back ok what do you say the best part about playing soccer is and go wes you first off what do you think the best part that you enjoy so i can just talk to them in the field sometimes when we're having water breaks or something but otherwise i do love it because my i think i was just like made for soccer my fee when the opens is coming down toward my goal i'm usually having to take the ball so we don't we're not giving another go when you're not getting the call now do you to see yourself playing soccer long term maybe you're only in fifth grade i mean you could start playing high school soccer when you're ninety three which is in four years do you do you think that you might want to play soccer in high school yeah but you think you are definitely for peter so much of soccer teams have done pretty well over the years and we've won states both from the girl side and from the boy side so we definitely need people girls and boys to play soccer to keep our winning winning ways going so you feel like you can contribute to that yeah all right will keep up the good work there so there's always winning and playing games but then the other side before you get to that it's practice so we talked about practice a little bit but how do you like practice law and how do you like going to practice practice when i'm leaving i just don't want and so i'm going to talk to my friends and but i really love and you all practice about your bell well like people say practice makes perfect so once you practice it you can get better at whatever you're trying to do and maybe get better at that no sportsmanship in practice is very important and do you see any can you give me any examples of where between teammates you've seen good sportsmanship while you guys are actually practicing they would drills or i don't know whether you practice penalty kicks or what you two look like you're pretty busy you know going to do a lot of soccer or other activities and schoolwork of course what do you do for fun outside of school work and outside of soccer so what other activities are you are you too involved in our job and i read i love to read for fun well i do like to read and i like to draw too but i normally like to go play with my dogs outside with the dog probably is bigger than you right yeah when she stands up there tiger so when you go to games your parents go to the games to watch you right probably would you consider your parents like are they real active cheerleaders on the sideline or they kind of sitting back like i'm sitting back right here kind of saying ok ok like you said he's a pretty big soccer fan so they're all active and they and they like when they have the ball they tell me i like to pass it to someone that can try to score and  all right so you're both at what mcmurry elementary yes what does what your favorite class bell what's your favorite class at the elementary there i like reading ok we can read a lot camera we talked about spine a little bit and you said you have a what one hundred in one spelling it's because of like bonus points so you have bonus points so what some of the tough words you've spelled recently correctly can you remember any of them  intense so i suggest that if you're if you're really interested go on your t v and look for spelling bees pretty funny especially whenever they get down to the final eight ten people they you know how they talk back and forth all the final participants  of encourage each other but of course they want to win so it's really a lot of sportsmanship on display there right as your favorite question guys like to spell  of the things you guys like to do any other video games go to movies hang out with friends would do anything else i'm definitely a stay inside person ok i do i i don't really do anything else than put a with my dog and sometimes i i am an inside person to said ok yeah all right any advice you have for girls that maybe a year or two younger than you like maybe in second grade and they're thinking about maybe trying to play sport and they don't know what sport to pick any any advice on maybe trying out soccer or soccer is really fun and you might not be good at it when to start but like you can always get better there's always room for improvement and then try something new that you don't think you like but you actually do well in that way and the and ok about you bell you get a person out there or maybe a little girl it's maybe in first grade or second grade think about what sports to get involved with you know you should definitely do it because they can just show what you want to be maybe you could influence other people if you do it too like if you have a little brother or sister then i wonder do in our make the community of soccer bigger ok well thank you very much thank you for taking time to sit down and chat about sportsmanship with today's hypercompetitive