As adult role models, we want our young athletes to learn about sportsmanship, overcome adversity, and achieve emotional growth-but are we teaching them the right lessons?
With 15 years of experience officiating nearly 5,000 different games, from youth tournaments to varsity high school championships, veteran referee Jeff Eckert has seen it all. In #SPORTSMANSHIP: Go Viral With It!, he shares important insights about sportsmanship-good and bad-and the surprising ways it affects our children, our communities, and the game itself.
In this book, you will learn:
- Why 7 out of 10 children quit the sports they love before high school
- The surprising ways we parents sabotage our young athletes
- How to set a great example and stamp out poor sportsmanship before it can go viral
- The single most important "car ride home" conversation you can have
#SPORTSMANSHIP: Go Viral With It! is the perfect resource for anyone who wants to help stamp out unsportsmanlike behavior, encourage youth leadership, and positively impact those around them.
With entertaining anecdotes, expert advice, and real-world solutions, this book gives parents, coaches, and other role models the tools they need to demonstrate and encourage humility and good sportsmanship-on and off the field-and be the catalyst that makes good sportsmanship go viral.
Praise for #SPORTSMANSHIP: Go Viral With It!
"An educational and fun read for any parent, fan, coach, or teacher. Thanks, Jeff, for the reminder of why we need to take this message 'viral.'"
-Bill Severns, former professional baseball player and author of Keepers of the Sandlot