#SPORTSMANSHIP - Go Viral With It: How YOU Can Model Great Behavior Create Positive Change and Transform Amateur Sports Culture

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 5000 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 schoolThe surprising ways we parents sabotage our young athletesHow to set a great example and stamp out poor sportsmanship before it can go viralThe 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 SandlotThe 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 AssociationThis 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