Committee taking first steps
toward 'Sports Done Right'
The School Board is taking the first steps toward adopting the University
of Maine's "Sports Done Right" philosophy for youth athletics in Cape Elizabeth.
At their February meeting, the board voted to establish a leadership team
charged with developing an action plan for adopting the Sports Done Right
philosophy in Cape Elizabeth.
Sports Done Right, based on a 2005 report developed at the University of
Maine, is a collection of practices and principals that promote sportsmanship,
fairness, and a positive sports experience for Maine youth. The report was
crafted as a companion piece to the Maine Learning Results.
More information about Sports Done Right, including copies of the report,
are available on the MCSC Web site,
http://www.sportsdonerightmaine.org
Linda Winker, School Board member and chairman of the board's student
extracurricular committee, said the leadership team is a beginning step toward
adopting the Sports Done Right philosophy.
"The first step in that whole process is to start developing a leadership
team to start educating all of the citizens of Cape Elizabeth," Winker said
at the Feb. 13 meeting of the School Board.
Last month, representatives of Sports Done Right were invited to present
their philosophy to School Board members, school athletic officials, and
leaders of youth sports organizations in town. "It was really quite an
interesting evening," said Winker.
"Where we all work under the one-town concept, this program will fit very
well with the scheme of things here in Cape Elizabeth," she said. "We want
to involve all of the citizens here in town, we want to involve all of the
youth organizations, not just our athletic and extracurricular programs at
the schools," Winker said.
The leadership team, as approved by the board, will include parents, student
athletes, a School Board member, educators, coaches and community members.
Members will be nominated to the committee and will come back to the board
with a recommendation. One of the committee's activities will be to hold
a public forum to present the philosophies of Sports Done Right to the community.
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