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"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 ""The game-time scenarios add perspective ... by providing a road map for athletes, coaches, parents, fans, and officials.The KSHSAA hopes all readers will find connection points from these stories and better understand that appropriate sportsmanship #StartsWithMe."" -Bill Faflick, Executive Director, Kansas State High School Activities Association ""This book shows a way forward, a way that enables us to enjoy athletic competition, play them by the rules, and show commitment to competing in an honorable way."" -Barry Mano, President, National Association of Sports Officials"

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#Sportsmanship: Go Viral With It! is an educational and fun read for any parent, fan, coach, or teacher involved in youth athletics. Jeff's unique perspective from his 15-year career as an official includes many great stories for all of us to absorb and apply as we watch our kids play. Thanks, Jeff, for the insight and reminder of why we need to take this message 'viral.' -Bill Severns, former professional baseball player and author of Keepers of the Sandlot Sports is life with the volume turned up. Sports rely on the men, women, and young people who serve as the officials to ensure the games we play are safe and fair and have outcomes we can believe in. A lack of sportsmanship by coaches and fans, especially at the youth level, is the #1 reason why officials quit. This book shows a way forward, a way that enables us to enjoy athletic competition, play them by the rules, and show commitment to competing in an honorable way. -Barry Mano, President, National Association of Sports Officials (NASO) Schools across the state and nation use the interscholastic activity program to extend student learning by teaching many valuable lessons that help form participant attitudes and behaviors for life. Certainly, appropriate sportsmanship is one of those lessons applicable to those in competition as well as those who come to support those students representing schools and school communities. In #Sportsmanship: Go Viral With It!, veteran official and author Jeff Eckert shares his personal experience with stories from various levels that depict insightful and often comical narratives about sportsmanship challenges. The game-time scenarios add perspective to the educational value of the book and engage the reader with each story by providing a road map for athletes, coaches, parents, fans, and officials. The KSHSAA hopes all readers will find connection points from these stories and better understand that appropriate sportsmanship #StartsWithMe. -Bill Faflick, Executive Director, Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA)

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