inc fourth grader mcmurray elementary baseball basketball thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk about sportsmanship first question tell me a little bit about yourself name what sport you play any brothers or sisters school and grade your start with you so i play i play baseball basketball and i do swimming and i have a little brother named kavin and i just whenever i go to school i feel like so last year my cousin came to visit and he was really into basketball at that time and he told me that i should try out for rec basketball and i was i went to rec basketball and my dad it up being my coach and i really like that and for swimming my parents signed me up when i was younger so i could like learn to swim and then i just kept on swimming because i really liked it but you were talking about baseball how did  involved with baseball that i just sort of my parents they asked me if i should do baseball if i if i wanted to do baseball and i said yes ok dave how long you been playing very good liam i feel it means like being respectful to the team and to the coaches because if you win you don't want to rub it in and if you lose you don't want to be like a sore loser and just like start yelling at the other team got you so dave who teaches you to be a good sport in life and on the playing field who's been responsible for that over the years of your many years of ok and what is one of sportsmanship mean to you i mean i'm not take a back who's been teaching you to be a good sport yeah usually my mom and dad and coaches  and sometimes like my older cousin who teach me a few things like tell me about my power to be just better at games and stuff ok she also baseball player he plays all the sports he plays liam can you give me an example of what it what it means to be a good sport in it while you're playing a game if i was at a baseball game and i had a really good ball and someone caught it i would like i wouldn't get mad and i wouldn't throw the bat i just walk in and if i saw that player again i'd say good catch ok it still  value what what give an example when what what you saw and good sportsmanship this year the season when you were playing were practicing said like right ok same thing that happened to you a couple times or just once or a couple all right how are you josh any any other examples of sportsman sportsmanship during the season this past year and previous ok so what did what happened after you're struck out there that you go back into that in the dugout and you know what do you what are your teammates tell you ok all right so they're saying good job and all right now i know third fourth and fifth grade is pretty hard i want to get all those grades myself and it did finish up made it through how do you guys balance school and sports because sports takes a lot of time let's talk about how much time sports take some during the season was just finished up how much time you know per week were you playing baseball and he practices how many games n normally we didn't have that many practices but the game for about an hour and fifteen minutes so if we did have a practice in a week and if we had a game two would be like two hours and fifteen minutes time ok let's talk about leadership a little bit how i mean it it the level that you're out you really don't have team captains you know now when you watch sports on t v usually see captains like si crosby's a captain the penguins and i and other and other you know on the professional level any of the high school level you have different captains i mean the kids on your team and you're on the same baseball team right and the other kids on your baseball team would you think are our leaders compared to some of the other people that are more on the team side of the other team members to say hey he's a leader i really i look up to lee now he's a little bigger than you guys so obviously he's a he's a bigger kid you have to look up to you have to look up to me that's a trip that's very true but other than that i mean how does he conduct him self that makes him more of a leader then than say a team member helped he helps yours liam does that that's a very good compliment from your teammates to say your leader when there aren't really any official leaders on the team you see yourself in there oh i'm going to be honest i really don't i just i just think i'm just a player ok well that's the best part of being on  we make sure they get to college to make college possible for anyone with a mind to get there because if given a chance minds will do great things federal student aid proud sponsor the american mind learn more about money for college at suny dot gov w the back of the show today i'm interviewing three of our local peters township baseball youth and for you back into the interview i just want to say again i'm john yaka with the park and rec board and all the subjects we're talking about in these segments on yes are all covered in different booklets that we have available with the peters township rec center including this one called the parents handbook good for parents to talk read through this talks about all sorts of things about sportsmanship discussing it with their kids and how to be good sports parents very very important very informative we also have a little sports checklist but parents talks about simple things like don't yell out instructions don't put down officials don't yell me at me in the public don't yell at me at that don't yell at the coach don't put down my teammates don't put down the other team don't lose your cool don't lecture me about mistakes after the game don't forget how to laugh and have fun and don't forget it's just a game so this is also a nice little very informative piece of  information we have and then for our coaching group out there we've got a coach's handbook again it just reiterate some of the things about being a youth sports coach you know this these are you sports these are not you know professional athletes yet some of them could be but eventually but it's important to put it all in perspective and have fun but back to the show these these again these are all available at the peters township parks and rec the recreation center computers with park so go go grab those whenever you feel like it so back with me today we've got liam dave and josh their season just finished up they had a good year in rec baseball so let's talk about the season this season did you just playing the game ok because i think i think baseball is a really fun sport so i just had a lot of fun playing and like david said meeting new players ok a lot of fun playing season you know there's a lot of stuff you play a lot of games you go to a lot of practices what have you learned what did you learn during the season about yourself or about the game or about your teammates josh what would you say you learned ok all right that's a good start what so you said it's hard to be easy so what's the what's the easy part about about being the pitcher ok good answer liam what did you learn the season i learned that if you're if you're going to be a catcher you need to have good solid teammates that are going to tell you when he's going because of you're an amazing catcher but your teammates never tell you when when the person is going to steal you could be the best player catcher in the league but you'll never ever get anyone out there you can't tell if they're stealing yeah you can never tell ok right so let's talk about you know every season has ups and downs mistakes so everyone everybody makes mistakes you know that's part of being a person who's going to make a mistake every now and then any any mistakes that you made  just glazed it barely and it went straight to the pitcher and he threw it to first base and i was out so you hit it back to the pitcher by mistake by mistake because i didn't hit the four bar only hit like a  of it so how did you bounce back after that i mean you kind of messed up a little bit next time you were operating the outfield or whatever i was at first base and i got a few people out ok all right good good  playing sports is basically just really fun to play the sport because i like baseball and it's fun meeting new friends like david said you know are you josh what do you think what's a what's the best part all right so how are you learning how to play baseball your coaches are obviously coaching you ok strike ok which brings the next question about practicing now everyone loves to play actual games but not everyone loves to practice so how do you guys like practice will start starter you josh how do you like practice on when you guys work is not a lot of practice ok let's game after game dave any anything to add to that or that much ok lee and what do you get out of when you guys went to practice and you didn't have a lot of what did you guys learn at practice we just learned how to better play the game and we increased our knowledge of the game to like the roles that like the rules of the game yeah you know how many pitches i mean how many strikes for a strike out how many for a walk hit by pitch what that means all the different things yeah ok the mechanics of baseball can actually baseball how to throw in from the infield i mean from the outfield to the infield i guess and yeah cut off man or shot when you were having your once in a while practice is did you see any sort of special sportsmanship there or whatever something going on between your teammates it's one thing to have sportsmanship when you're playing a game against another team but another one when you is louis he's just always really positive and really sportsmanlike whether it's a practice or a game ok it's just a good person to be around so we ask couple questions outside of baseball because it's always think it's fun to ask people so what do you do for fun outside of school and sports you know when you're not playing baseball or wrestling or basketball or doing homework what do what are the other activities you guys like to do and we'll start with you day first to do basketball twenty how about any other non sporting things like do you do crossword puzzles or jigsaw puzzles or you know walk your dog or would anything else that you do for fun besides you know sports and go to ok i've haven't played that one yet but i don't know josh what do you do outside of sports and school work for fun lunch t v what's your favorite t v show right now show now not denying a particular i lay i'm your last one up on that question outside of sports and schoolwork what else you do for fun and i like to read and write a lot ok because like i'm writing a few different stories so it's just really fun just for fun or for score just for fun ok because i like inventing their storylines and i think how i would react if i was in their shoes so that's a that's very interesting ok good good good good excellent whenever you're at these games and they get in there often a show for the season your parents usually come and watch yeah now are they active cheerleaders on the sidelines or would you say they're kind of passive just sitting back  i think they're active because they're always cheering on our team and they're just overall good ok ok now at the end of these games you guys they were good snacks the parents bring snac  they usually have ice cream in the stands ok ok so in school again you guys are in third fourth and fifth grade which is a nice nice grade the b n what's your favorite class lee and i like english because like i what's your favorite party jam sports when the sports favorite sport what's your favorite sport overall basketball but not that my favorite sport just to watch probably hockey ok big penguins fan or yeah yeah that's a good time watching the penguins when they're special when they're winning yeah i saw them win the stanley cup so feel excited that's very nice greg back to school i guess all right well thank you for taking time to sit down and chat about sportsmanship today with our hyper competitive focus on sports and academic achievement is important to keep in mind the critical role sportsmanship