Identify the area for your cheerleaders before the game an

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Central Coast SectionSportsmanship Tool Kit
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Contains helpful tools

• Suggestions from
• member schools
• Guidelines from CIF/CCS offices
• Intended to be a work in progress

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Other items may include

• Schedules of administrative supervision for
  contests
• Schedules of officials, timers, announcers,
  scorekeepers for home contests
• Rosters and schedules for your faculty and school
  offices

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andsome essentials all tool kits must include

• Supervision procedures checklist
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• Sportsmanship procedures checklist

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Keys to Success SUPERVISION

• What needs to be done
• Who needs to do it
• How to do it

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How to build your kit

• Collaborate with your
  schools leadership team
• Involve many different fingers of the school to
  create ownership and a positive school culture
• Create a tool kit that fits your
  school and serves as a source
  for implementing and
  seeking support

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Resources on the CCS website
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Responsibility

• Administrators, athletic directors, coaches and
  staff must commit to ensure that all policies and
  rules are known and followed.
• Responsibility rests with all levels of
  administration
• Responsibilities/duties should be verbalized,
  written, and followed up
• It must be clear who to report to and how to
  report situations

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What a school permits, it promotes CIF
Article 12A

• An institution must make expectations clear.
• An institution needs to actively discipline those
  who violate the rules.
• Compliance with CIF rules is everyones
  obligation.

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Keys to Success HOST SUPERVISION

• Plan Aheadthink about
• The opponent
• How your fans might behave
• Site location and logistics
• Events that might attract others to attend
• Arrange for adequate security

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Create, discuss distribute guidelines for.

• Faculty supervisors
• crowd control procedures
• Police and security personnel
• Expectations before, during and after the contest
• Locations where they should be
• Contest administration
• Behavior notices posted at entrances/ticket sales
  
• Public address announcements regarding behavior
  and sportsmanship guidelines

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Before the contest

• Contact the other administrator prior to the game
  to review any conerns you or they might have.
• Review any specific characteristics of the site
  or past experience with your opponents that
  warrant attention or special arrangements prior
  to the contest.

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Keys to Success VISITOR SUPERVISION

• Wear clothing that identifies you as a staff
  member of the school
• Arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the event
  and introduce yourself to the administrator of
  the other school and the officials
• If available, obtain a walkie-talkie from the
  host school or exchange cell phone numbers for
  use in an emergency.

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Visitor Supervision(continued)

• Identify the area for your cheerleaders before
  the game and direct them to stay in the
  designated area.
• Help direct your schools supporters to the
  designated seating sections and position yourself
  where you can be see and be seen.
• Help enforce rules with your students, parents
  and fans.

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Keys to Success EVENT SUPERVISION

• Greet the officials. Let them know how game
  supervisors can be recognized and where they will
  be located.
• Be sure that the coaches and/or athletic director
  are supervising the players in the locker rooms
  before the game, at halftime and after the game.
• Frosh JV coaches need to supervise
  their players during the
  Varsity contest.
• Be sure that the coach or other appropriate
  person is supervising the loading of the bus/vans
  to deter any post game incidents.

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Event Supervision(continued)

• Assist in keeping the court/field clear at
  halftime and after the contest.
• Periodically check the restrooms
  and locker rooms.
• During play, supervise from a position to observe
  fan behavior. Be in strategic positions after
  the game.
• Be proactive in encouraging positive cheering and
  immediately be reactive in discouraging negative
  rooting.

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Event Supervision(continued)

• Be prepared to speak to students or adults
  rooting for your school who engage in negative
  rooting behavior. Have a strategy planned for
  approaching fans with problematic behavior.
• Confiscate artificial noisemakers, laser pointers
  and other devices that could disrupt play or
  violate CCS Sportsmanship policies.
• If needed, move and then remove disruptive
  individuals from the venue.

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Event Supervision(continued)

• Signs should be positive. If a sign needs to be
  removed, dont rip it off the wallremove it
  carefully and roll it up.
• If the opponents rooters are using negative
  signs, call it to the attention of their
  supervisory personnel.

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Pursuing Victory with Honor

• The six Pillars of Character
• Trust
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Fairness
• Citizenship
• Caring

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Ideas for

• Administrators
• Athletic Activities Directors
• Coaches

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CCS policies and contract

• Can be found
• on the CCS web-site
• in the Constitution Bylaws

CCS Tournament/Playoff Sportsmanship Guidelines
can be found in the Tournament Guide
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Create, discuss distribute expected behaviors
for

• Athletes
• Spirit Leaders
• Band
• Students and Spectators
• Coaches
• Administration

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Suggestions to consider

• Pursuing Victory with Honor letters sent home to
  parents/emailed/posted on website
• Pursuing Victory with Honor contracts
• For athletes
• For coaches
• For parents

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Suggestions to consider

• Steroid agreement
• CCS sportsmanship contract
• School contract signed by
  athlete parents
• Personalize Pursuing Victory with Honor documents
  with your schools name.

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Other action steps

• Conduct meetings with coaches to review
  sportsmanship expectations
• Meet with PA announcers to plan announcements
  that promote sportsmanship and a positive,
  spirited environment.
• Conduct three seasonal mandatory parent athlete
  meetings
• Congratulate scholar-athletes in staff and parent
  emails/publications

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and

• Meet with spirit squads, band, and unofficial
  cheerleaders to review
• What cheers/music are appropriate
• What signs/posters are appropriate
• What actions might be viewed as demeaning

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Promoting sportsmanship

• Distribute awards for athletes, coaches, spirit
  squads, school personnel and/or spectators in
  recognition of outstanding sportsmanship.
• Post/promote
• CIF code of ethics
• CCS League sportsmanship policies
• Athletic mission statements of the district/school

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Rememberyour tool kit is only effective if you

• Choose the tools that are fit for YOUR school.
• Add, update and USE your tool kit