New Rule in Jersey

[umpcoachfather]

Starting this fall, athletes and coaches will be subject to new rules designed to discourage unsportsmanlike behavior, the organization that oversees high school sports in New Jersey announced Wednesday.

Under a policy developed by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and the state Attorney General's Office and its Division on Civil Rights, officials will enforce rules designed to crack down on harassing conduct related to race, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

The new rules, which will apply to all 433 public-, parochial-, and private-school members of the NJSIAA, will require officials to report this conduct to the association. The state organization may investigate the incident and notify the state for possible further investigation.

 

 

[LMSANS]

 

Starting this fall, athletes and coaches will be subject to new rules designed to discourage unsportsmanlike behavior, the organization that oversees high school sports in New Jersey announced Wednesday.

Under a policy developed by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association and the state Attorney General's Office and its Division on Civil Rights, officials will enforce rules designed to crack down on harassing conduct related to race, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.

The new rules, which will apply to all 433 public-, parochial-, and private-school members of the NJSIAA, will require officials to report this conduct to the association. The state organization may investigate the incident and notify the state for possible further investigation.

 

Don't jump the gun...this is from someone I know:

 

"...where the associate director of the NJSIAA said that there has been no such policy finalized. He did say that the state association is talking about a more robust sportsmanhip policy, but nothing has been agreed to within their governing committee. Maybe this will be what comes out, but at this point, the report is premature."

[umpcoachfather]

http://www.njsiaa.org/NJSIAA/SportsmanshipStandardsPR2013.pdf

[VAUmp]

It's 2013 and NJ doesn't already have a policy for this???  WoW!  

[LMSANS]

It's 2013 and NJ doesn't already have a policy for this???  WoW!  

VA has a rule on trash talking?

[mstaylor]

Fed does, but the way that reads it is a standard anti-discrimination law. It does nothing for  normal trash talking. It isn't really a sportsmanship rule, it is a common decency rule. Coaches can still say an umpire is stupid, biased, and a number of other things. Now you can't tell him he is blind or deaf though. 

[Typhoon]

Here is a blurb from The Windsor Star May 29. It concerns hockey but should be mandatory for all minor sports.

 

In order to enrol children in the Windsor Minor Hockey Association parents will now have to take a course in respect – a first for Ontario, according to the head of the league.

If parents don’t complete the hour-long, online Respect In Sport course by Aug. 15 for travel teams, and by Aug. 31 for house-league teams, their children can’t play.

“We wanted to be proactive,†said Dean Lapierre, president of the Windsor Minor Hockey Association. “We haven’t had any major problems in a long time, but we wanted to keep it that way.â€

The parents’ respect-course requirement starts when a player is as young as nine and continues until they’re 15.

Lapierre, a former player and coach, said most parents are great. But the few who act inappropriately poison the environment for all.

 

Tony