2. REFLECTION ON SPORT  What have sports contributed to your life?  What are you hoping that your child will take from her or his sports experiences?  Should Catholic sponsored sport programs be distinct?

3. OVERVIEW  Research-based  Connecting the Athletic Department Mission with the School Vision  The Champion Message: Play… Like a Champion… Today!

4. CHAMPION PARENTS Do you enable or empower your child?

5. HIGH SCHOOL SPORT CULTURE: CAUSES FOR CONCERN  Professionalization  Over-emphasis on winning  Excessive pressure from coaches and parents  Increasing incidents of sports “rage”  Steroid/drug and alcohol use  Team hazing/bullying  Increased burn out  Cheating

6. PROFILE OF A CHAMPION TEAMWORK DESIRE TO WIN THE RIGHT WAY PERSISTENCE & DETERMINATION EXCELLENCE IN ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE & CHARACTER

7. THE GROW APPROACH GROW WINNING RELATIONSHIPS GOALSOWNERSHIP

8. GROW TH & THE CARDINAL VIRTUES “While playing sports, Christians also find help in developing the cardinal virtues – fortitude, temperance, prudence, and justice.” Pope John Paul II  Goals - Fortitude  Relationships - Justice  Ownership - Prudence  Winning - Temperance

9. G ROW— GOALS Champions set challenging goals for themselves and strive to achieve them With of their ability. Suggestion: As parents, help your athletes to set goals and to achieve their personal best.

10. G R OW - RELATIONSHIPS Champions foster healthy relationships with their teammates, opponents, referees, and coaches. Suggestion: As parents, love your children unconditionally and provide positive examples by creating healthy relationships of your own.

11. GR O W - OWNERSHIP Champions take responsible ownership of their games and lead responsibly. The Path to Leadership: Ownership  Care  Responsibility  Leadership

12. CHAMPION SPORT PARENTING “The right and duty of parents to educate their children are primordial and inalienable.” Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1653

13. COMMON PITFALLS 1.Stardom or Bust! 2.Living Through Children/ Excess Pressure 3. Instilling Guilt

14. DEVELOPING YOUR CHAMPION  Recognize each child’s gifts.  Challenge your child to try new things and get better.

15. DEVELOPING YOUR CHAMPION  Put winning and losing in perspective.  Offer positive and specific feedback. Positive Statement Corrective Feedback Positive Statement

16. DEVELOPING YOUR CHAMPION  Send positive non- verbal messages  Praise effort and sportsmanship  Encourage discovery

17. GAME DAY BEHAVIOR What do you think is the strongest predictor of poor sports behavior? PARENTS!

18. GUIDELINES FOR SIDELINES  Coaching from the sidelines  Cheering when the opponent makes a mistake  Negatively reacting to an official’s call  Cheering when a player injures an opponent  Cheering to intimidate at an important point in the game  Taunting or making disparaging remarks to an opponent TOXIC SIDELINE BEHAVIORSPOSITIVE SIDELINE BEHAVIORS  Making encouraging positive statements rather than commands  Cheering for good plays by both teams during the game  Treating the official with courtesy and respect  Congratulating an opponent on a good play  Being a gracious host at home games and a respectful visitor at away matches  Complimenting the other team despite the outcome of the game “Parents have the grave responsibility to give good example to their children.” Catechism of the Catholic Church (2223)

19. CHAMPION COMMITTEE √ To create parent accountability. √ To establish new norms for hospitable parent behavior. √ To support all participants in sport. √ To challenge those who display toxic behaviors. UPHOLDING THE IDEALS OF THE PLAY LIKE A CHAMPION TODAY® PROGRAM

20. REFLECT BACK… How can we find God present through our children’s sporting experience? How can we as parents connect our school mission with our child’s athletic career?

21. Parent Like a Champion at PVI Parents who empower: Ruth Ann Lobo Debbie Phelps Pat Summit Our kids want us to listen to their problems….not solve them The only way someone will be great at anything is if they want to be themselves

22. PARENT TAKEAWAYS Place your child’s wishes before your own Let your athletes learn at their own pace-a setback is just a setup for a comeback Emphasize academics:$1billion in athletic scholarships-$22 billion in academic Avoid early specialization Let your kids decide Anything worth doing is worth doing well

23. Parent Rights Do your homework with AAU coaches and/or camps Let coaches coach-#1 reason good coaches leave is over-involved, over-indulgent parents On matters of playing time and strategy, stay out On matters of health and ethics, you are within your rights

24. CHAMPION PARENTS As parents, our job is to be our kid’s biggest fan. If she is the best player, it doesn’t mean we are a good parent..if she rarely plays, we aren’t a bad parent. It is not about US at all. FINALLY: you are perfectly entitled to THINK what you want just remember, don’t SAY it.

25. TO PUT IT SIMPLY… PARENT & PLAY… LIKE A CHAMPION… TODAY!

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