Definition Of Sportsmanship

For this sportsmanship interview, I decided to interview my older cousin Moe Thamer. Moe is now in college and is focusing on his career. Before all of that he was going to Richfield High School like a regular teenager. He played soccer throughout all of high school. He was really good at soccer and started to get moved up to JV when he was young. He practiced so much so he can play for varsity at a young age. He really liked soccer and had a passion to play for Richfield with his best friend that he grew up with for four years straight.

Now I interview my Cousin Moe and ask him questions regarding teamwork and sportsmanship. I asked Moe Thamer what his definition of sportsmanship was. Moe told me his definition was to always be the type …show more content…
I do think sportsmanship has helped me in other parts of my life like communicating with people. It helped me not to automatically brag about things or rub something I have like for instance a trophy that someone does not have. Also It helped me giving compliments to people when they are doing things that they should feel happy about. I have experienced someone who exhibited poor sportsmanship. It was during football season towards the beginning of the school year. I played cornerback and I was blocking the wide receiver from trying to catch the ball and the wide receiver got mad that I was locking him down so he pushed me trying to start a fight that didn 't need to be started over a game. It hurt my experience a little because it makes you think of reasons like why you are playing that sport in the first place or if the person showing bad sportsmanship is right. I have a some ideas on how to improve sportsmanship to help others. My first Idea is to tell everyone playing the game it’s just a activity to play and exercise and that it 's not like the winner is going to win a new car. Teachers and students should express how it 's just a game so we can all smile if we lose or win. Another idea I have is to give compliments to everyone, including the people who are not getting involved a lot so they can actually like to play. I did this in gym while we were playing volley ball and eventually this girls who didn 't get involved actually liked playing in the end. In professional sports there is many times negative and good sportsmanship has been used. There was a article I read 2 months ago how the Seattle Seahawks, one of their players texted his friend he was going to play against that night and told him “good luck bro lets have a good game tonight”. That is so simple and it shows sportsmanship. There are football games when others get hurt and the other