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SUNY provides sport administrators with two distinct lectures for parents in your programs. At either level a parent's role is different yet vital to the positive outlook of their child and sport community.
I. Sports Parenting 101 (grades K-8)
Both programs last 60-90 minutes and consist of an entertaining lecture and discussion on the needs of the child or adolescent coupled with the needs of the sport community they're in. Our SUNY Trainers will come to your community center or school district and provide the leadership you seek to mitigate concerns and help channel parental energy into positive social activities. If requested we will bring a sport psychologist with us to your meeting. |
A photographer shares the story behind these images of a local youth baseball game.
June 8, 2010A Reuters/Ipsos survey of 23,000 adults in 22 countries found that more than 35 percent of adults worldwide have witnessed a physically and/or verbally abusive parent at a children's sporting event.
So, where is the most unsavory behavior and conduct observed?
Could it be Italy, whose fans are known to be rather overzealous? (Nope, but they were third with 55 percent of respondents witnessing unsavory parental behavior.)
How about Argentina, whose soccer fans are renowned for their extracurricular activities? (Uh-uh, they were fourth at 54 percent.)
Ah, then it must be Australia. They can be a might rowdy. (Nah, they were sixth at 50 percent.)
Unfortunately, the statuette for worst parent conduct went to the U.S. with a shameful 60 percent.
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Parents join kids as leaders in close-knit community league.
by Alan Morrell
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
April 6, 2010
EAST ROCHESTER -- Youth soccer is a real family affair in East Rochester.
The president of East Rochester Youth Soccer is Duchessa Cavaliere of South Lincoln Road. Her husband, Duca Cavaliere, will be coaching soccer for the first time this year. Their 9-year-old son, Ericco, and 7-year-old-daughter, Maria, both play for the league.
The league's registration coordinator is Michelle Griffith of Landsdowne Lane in Pittsford. Her husband, John, will be starting his third year as a coach. Their children -- 9-year-old Sarah, 7-year-old Hannah and 5-year-old Leah -- all are players.
Another team has a husband coaching and his wife serving as the league's sponsor coordinator.
by Tim Murphy
Ridgefield Press
February, 15 2010
RIDEGEFIELD, CT -- On the field, the football season may have officially ended with the Super Bowl. But off the field, things are reaching a fever pitch -- at least in Ridgefield.
In a span of 10 days, the town's youth football and cheerleading organization, Ridgefield Youth Football, was asked to leave the league it has played in for the past five years; a former board member formed a new board and applied for re-admission to the league; and three members of the current board, including the president and vice president, decided to resign.
The unexpected developments have left the roughly 350 children who participate either as players or cheerleaders and their parents asking the same things: Why did all this happen, and will Ridgefield have a league to play in next fall?
by Joe Fitzgibbon
The Oregonian
January 21, 2010
BEAVERTON -- As the registration deadline for youth lacrosse approaches on Jan. 31, dozens of Beaverton families aren't sure where their kids will be playing.
"Right now, we've got two private fields in place, but we'd prefer to use those with Tualatin Hills Park and Recreation District," said Andrew Klumpp, president of Westview Youth Lacrosse. "I hope we can get this resolved before the season begins."
For the past eight years, Beaverton Youth Lacrosse has run a single, citywide league, attracting more than 700 elementary and middle school participants within the Beaverton School District boundaries.
by John Mariani
Syracuse Post-Standard
February 11, 2010
Camillus, NY -- The Camillus Youth Basketball Association, whose games were suspended after a brawl Monday, will resume play on Feb. 22, league President Tim Schoonmaker said.
"CYBA officials, after communicating with the Camillus police and the West Genesee Central School District have decided to resume league play effective Feb. 22, 2010," Schoonmaker said this afternoon. "All commissioners, coaches, parents and players will be contacted of this. We thank the school district for allowing us to use their facilities."
League officials will meet with West Genesee Superintendent Chris Brown next week to discuss what security arrangements might be made to allow play to resume, Schoonmaker said. A game schedule also should be drawn up next week, he said.
by Paul Walsh
Star Tribune
February 15, 2010
A youth basketball commissioner was assaulted by a dad and possibly another person at a sixth-graders' game over the weekend in a dispute over officiating at the end of overtime, according to the league and police.
Jeff Shand, 50, had his jaw dislocated, suffered a concussion and has dental damage from the attack immediately after a tournament game Saturday at Burnsville High School, according to Rich Hardegger, an assistant commissioner for Burnsville boys' in-house basketball.
A 48-year-old man from Minneapolis was subdued after being kicked in the groin by one man and then tackled by several adults, said police Sgt. Jef Behnken. The man was arrested, booked in jail and then released on his own recognizance, Behnken said.
by Bob Herzog
Newsday
February 10, 2010
Gym closed. Game on.
That was the situation Tuesday as Half Hollow Hills West hosted Bellport in the resumption of a boys basketball game suspended late in the third quarter Monday, when two parents ran onto the court after contact between their son and a Bellport player.
After that, fans left the bleachers and moved toward the court but were kept at bay.
by Adriane Heine
Abington Journal
February 10, 2010
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Junior Knights Hockey Club was developed in 2005 to provide an opportunity for aspiring young athletes to enjoy the sport of ice hockey. Since then, the Knights had several teams for different ages and skill levels, including levels B, A and AA, all Tier 2 levels. The highest level of youth hockey in the United States is level AAA, also known as Tier 1, which has never been available here, until now. Starting in the 2010-2011 season, AAA youth ice hockey will come to Northeastern Pennsylvania.
This is due, in part, to the coaches this area has to offer. Coach Besa Tsintsadze is the Knights' power-skating coach. He is also the personal power skating coach to the National Hockey League's Sergei Gonchar and Evgeni Malkin, both of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Knights are also coached by former professional players Devin Edgerton from Canada and Alex Vasko from Russia.
by Express-Times staff
Lehigh Valley Live
February 02, 2010
WARREN COUNTY, NJ -- A shoving match that ensued when an angry parent charged a coach at a youth wrestling tournament at Belvidere High School has officials from the Tri-County Youth Wrestling League looking to speak with witnesses as well as the parties involved.
According to police, Robert Spezza, of Liberty Township, allegedly assaulted Dan Shamsudin, a coach with Parsippany PAL, after the Redhawks had defeated Hackettstown 80-0 in a midget wrestling match.
"This guy went crazy, trampled one of our kids and sent him to the hospital," Dan Shamsudin's brother, Sharif Shamsudin, said.
Spezza, 40, reportedly accused coach Shamsudin, 28, of using delay tactics during the match then came out of the bleachers and knocked him to the gymnasium floor.
by Kay Lazar
Boston GLobe
February 2, 2010
There was the nasty concussion Ben Price suffered from an eighth-grade skiing accident. Then the countless jarrings from wrestling and baseball. By senior year, he was plagued by nagging headaches after football practices at Wayland High School.
His mother, Wendy Price, did not connect the incidents until a chance conversation last year with another parent at a youth soccer game. That parent, Dr. Ann McKee, is studying a form of early dementia that was once thought to develop primarily in boxers. Now McKee and her colleagues think the disease may be silently destroying the brains of athletes in a variety of sports after years of repetitive blows to the head.
"You don't know who is going to be the unlucky one,'' said Price, who asked McKee to speak at a forum in Wayland.
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