Athletics
Philosophy & Guidelines
Athlete's Role
- Be committed to impacting your sport by improving yourself, your team, and the larger community.
- Commit to being in great shape. Your athletic skills are limited by your physical, mental, and emotional health. Build a strong base in each of these areas prior to the start of the season. Maintain that base throughout the season.
- Being a great athlete requires intentionality. Give your maximum effort in practice as well as competition. Give your body the exercise/rest/nutrition/hydration it needs to support all that you ask of it during your sports season.
- Up your mental game. Practice visualization, positive self-talk, and a "mistake ritual" so that they will be ready when you need them.
Find ways to fill your emotional tank. Increase the time you spend with tank fillers. Increase the time you spend doing positive things.
- Have a teachable spirit. Appreciate correction. It is feedback on your performance designed to help you improve. Say, “thank you,” and implement the feedback.
- Make team success your first priority. Take on the role the team needs. Usually this requires you to push beyond what you have done in the past.
- Fill the emotional tanks of your teammates by offering them specific, positive feedback on their actions.
- Develop positive team traditions that lift people up and reinforce the intentional culture of your team.
- Use your status and influence to improve the community. While there are many people who work hard in the school, athletes have the advantage of their work being highly visible to others. With that comes increased scrutiny and great responsibility. Manage yourself (grades, relationships, work, behavior, etc.) and seize opportunities to be an Upstander: get involved in anti-bullying, support classmates’ activities (other sports, academics, and arts), and become involved in other areas of the school.
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