good morning my name's joe mace and i'm a the baseball coach your peers such high school when i want to welcome you to a panel of experts i would say concerning sportsmanship and one of the areas that we're trying to in peter's township and i think we will always have at the recreational level and also at the high school level is that area sportsmanship and today we have in our panel coach j d wilson who is the head coach at years and then excellent job also on our panel today we have some special athletes people that have been role models on the field off the field and like to introduce them over here to the far right is andrew ehrenberg and has been part of our football program and also a member of baseball team brady sheets brady has been also part of our baseball program and his last year was a captain of our varsity team we also have and ok great i think it's everything that they just said the respective certainly starts with that but i would say that one of things is that we're losing is honoring the game that you're playing we're that the competition is so serious that we kind of lose sight that it's it's just a game and i believe we need to really get back into just the competition that is fun that i mean i'm as competitive as anybody but not forget what it's all about that at the end of the day it was just a game it's not it's not war for lack of a better term and again here in everybody's comments i think the probably most important word came to mind when i was thinking about is respect i think respect for yourself and your family because again when you do something out there on the athletic field or on the court a lot of times if you're not being respectful then it's an embarrassment to yourself and also your family also i think the key word again that was mentioned being respect the respect for your opponent the respect for the officials and again i think that's the key  word about some examples of poor sportsmanship through your years of competing can you give us a couple of that you've seen hopefully and i don't believe that you've ever exhibited poor sportsmanship and what about you  carolina and you go through the lines and shake hands and it's required we even have to film it now to show that the sportsmanship is there they actually have the film the handshake and the new thing is now when you go to shake someone's hand they give you the two finger tickle in the hand so i get kind of a little bit angry when that happens and i kind of shake their hand a little bit more firmly to make sure they understand it's the handshake means the game is over great played and we move on to the next game i think what i was thinking about you know poor sportsmanship i think every time i'm watching the n f l now it seems like when there's a play made that it's all about about me and again it goes back to the sportsmanship the taunting and i start thinking about coach paterno penn stater coach nolan i'm not sure which one had this quote but they said you know act like you've been there act like you've been in the end zone act like you've made that tackle and we just don't see that in any n f l and some of the supposed to be role models and and they've got you know millions of young kids watching and it just it just sets such a bad example suckle bit about some other maybe good sportsmanship examples from the personal experience things that maybe you witnessed that come to mind andrew was put in i've been knocked down quite a few times and i hadn't one player knocking down trees down to help me  i really appreciate that meat is such a small thing that player can do it takes like two seconds and i think that's a good act of sportsmanship when someone helps another player about the gap if someone makes a nice play in baseball i mean you go find  up team the the silver medalist and you handle yourself expects actually well what about c let's talk about parents first parents leading by example what are your feelings concerning parents being positive parents being negative and staying with this concept of good sportsmanship it kind of makes them look bad whenever the because like a parent talking to you know high school even younger kids the chance that they know class in the pack the players look up to their parents and i think they try and leave they need to lead by example and they have poor sportsmanship and that's really that's really not good at all sure one of the things we're running into and i coach in the town the youth football i help out with other sports it's difficult as a coach to be in the stands as a father and then hear the parents constantly criticizing what the coach is trying to accomplish here's a guy volunteering his time a lot of it not getting paid for anything and then to be criticized by his own parents of his players so i kind of set off to the side because i even catch myself starting to coach my son and i'm certainly the toughest on my son than anybody so i try to avoid coaching them as much as possible but it's becoming more and more that they're there yelling over the coach and coaching their kid while the game is in play and that makes it really difficult but he's any opinion on it i think the coaches know they're doing the parents down they think they do and coaches but little bit about your coaches and it doesn't have to be your high school coach from your past experiences how they promoted good sportsmanship what are they like  big things about me from all of them but we do one of the things we pride ourselves in is that there's no reactions on the field the one of the worst thing you see a lot is no matter if it's us taking someone having to gave her situation or a an official making the call putting your hands up out to the side like what's out about the second that happens we call that a reminder and there's stiff correction on that i can use specific example that we had a couple of things happen before  penn state game a couple years back and we sprinted before the state game right before the game started and that sent quite a message not only to our players but to them and the result was quite good so our there's plenty of examples of it  i think with with our at least with our baseball program one of the things that we do during during the the year was we have a youth clinic and our baseball players actually teach the youth kids eight nine ten eleven twelve year olds and one of the things i remind them after that clinic is that many of these kids are going to come watch you during your high school season and we do get a lot of youth players coming to our games and and i keep reminding our high school guys how important it is that they're role models and for them to come off the field and maybe say the under their breath the four letter words something like that is just unacceptable thrown our question is unacceptable because again i tell me you never know who's watching even the fact that some of our kids are hoping to play the collegiate level you don't know if that college coach is watching in a lot of times or watching to see what kind of attitude you have before the game during the game and they want to see how you handle adversity so we really stress a lot we talk about it but again i think again give him a gentle reminder that that you never know who's watching and that these little young players really look up to you it was very observer it really came to my attention probably about three or four years ago we were doubly pell finals and they were probably one hundred fifty to two hundred youth players that had their peers touchup jerseys on and they were sent down near the dugout and they were watching every move that our high school players were making so i thought that that was and again our kids he handled themselves very very well we also emphasized the importance of never questioning and empires called officials call and if you do you're probably going  to be taken out of the ballgame so i think sportsmanship i know not only with our baseball program but i think our entire program here peter's high school i think our coaching staff has a good job of emphasizing that area  talk a little bit about maybe some of the role models that you of collegiate lives professionally or even teammates and you think of them you don't have to mention by name the baby an example i have to say that coach davis who i'm working with now i'm a little bit more of an intense coach when i'm in charge of the sidelines and now i'm on insistent roll no matter what the situation he is very just even keeled bet we were stuck and we had a bad goal against us that was officials missed the call and it was critical in the game just this past saturday and he walked out on the field talk to the officials i think i don't know there's of a big billboard that talks about character and it talks about sportsmanship and the one that comes in mind maybe a commercial you've seen on t v of two opponents carrying a young lady's scripts softball and actually carrying her home and what happened was that this girl got injured after hitting a home run and technically she had to run the bases and the rule was that the softball teammates were not permitted to touch or coach not permitted to touch and what the opponents did is they actually picked this girl up and continued to carry around the bases and i saw that on t v one time i see this one a billboard it really reminds us of that almost be of difference between performing badly and acting badly absolutely i mean you can everyone has a bad game i mean it's just it's sports but you take it out on your teammates or opponent and that's not being a good sport and i mean everyone has bad fans student support again through the years that i've been supervising athletic events there are times where i've been very very proud of our student body peters and there's been some times where i've been embarrassed  and again it's mainly seems to be more aware during the indoor sports season but are you aware of maybe some of the things some of the antics of your fellow students while you're competing when you hear it do you ignore it you same thing i mean it's a tough thing to do it is a tough thing that just block out but that's what you have to do i mean you can't let someone i think i was a little world that you're in between the lines what if it's your side you know  like you're here and you're your fans saying stuff that really shouldn't be said and i mean that's a lot of peer pressure i'm not trying to put you on the spot it's something if you have a reactive you're starting to cause a culture i have turned to the crowd and said that's not what we're about  i'm not perfect i've made my mistakes but i try to keep it so that we're not part of that and i believe that no player should communicate with a crowd that's almost like a little like a world which i mean by self or the team keeps you focused right you have to focus on what you're trying to do and what your job is and don't let the fans get your head sure and just play the game about being a spectator being up there during a basketball game and and realizing that some of the the chance how do you really into the game they were very supportive of the pep band of the cheerleaders and it was a great positive evening the like i said there's been some other ties that last supervisor that i've had to go up into the stands remind people that the smaller about like hockey game i think down to south park was playing outdoors and upper st clair fans came in and there must been probably a hundred hundred fifty of them and they were all dressed up in costumes in fact they were led by the men in black was they they came they worked with the cheerleaders they were very positive in have this banner angle back and forth he didn't have the you know the b s years so you know to their credit i think they did a very very nice job that evening of having fun being good sports and that's something that i hope to we're able to to build on going back to that cameo night maybe getting our student body to continue to do stuff like that to work with the cheerleaders was a lot of fun that's the other thing we're trying to promote this little plug for baseball that we have night games and we'd love to get people to come out and i think they have a good good time but there's been tough some times where i've had to go over to our crowd and say hey gang cool that's not me no matter where he was traveling he always made every game that i played but you never knew he was in the stands no one knew he was my dad he was one of those people who sat up in the corner didn't just want to watch me i could look up in the middle of timeout the football game and i knew exactly where my dad was and he would say anything but he'd be less and everything and it went through when i was playing to when i was coaching it didn't matter how good we were doing i still wasn't depending on what parents you got i could have been the worst coach ever so it was my mom on the other hand you could hear her all day long cheering nonstop but they were very positive so i think i've been able to take that along with me and i agree with what you said i had the privilege my mom and dad have always been there for me and still are and it's pretty neat that everything that they have done has been positive support me as a player support me as a coach and that meant so much to me as a player and a coach of having the parents support and having that in a pause when i was never ever embarrassed by something i parents did i guess that for most wraps things up one of the things again that the month of march is national sportsmanship awareness month and here peter statue if it is something that i know a recreation department with art director michelle carmel is always emphasizing there are some hand books that you can get from the recreation department is a parent's handbook developed by the yes committee yes for better use force and also coach a sample that is promoted by the recreation apartment so again i want to thank our outstanding group