Sportsmanship in Athletics

Filed May 19, 2008 at 10:30 am under Swimming & Diving and Marching Band and Performance Enhancement and Softball and Physical Education and Hockey and All Sports and Awards and Athlete Specific Instruction and Triathlon and Soccer and Gymnastics and Football and Volleyball and Tennis and Baseball and Track & Field and Wrestling and Golf and Lacrosse and Cheerleading & Dance Team and Field Hockey and Basketball by nate.landas

Conduct and attitude considered as befitting participants in sports, especially fair play, courtesy, striving spirit, and grace in losing defines the word SPORTSMANSHIP.  Athletic directors and coaches often stress the importance of this conduct & attitude, but poor sportsmanship often overshadows the good.  The following link provides video footage of an act of good sportsmanship - members of a softball team offered to carry an opposing team member around the bases after she hit a homerun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJuFIdK15cI

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