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Wellesley rower cheers at the 2005 NEWMAC Crew Championship,
won by Smith College.
NEWMAC
divers congratulate MIT's Doria Holbrook '08, the 2005 NEWMAC
Women's 1 Meter and 3 Meter Diving Champion.
NEWMAC
Sportsmanship Standards
1)
Members of intercollegiate athletics should display proper respect
and consideration, and maintain civility toward opposing coaches
and student-athletes.
2)
Coaches bear the responsibility of teaching the importance
of sporting conduct and behavior in both word and action to
their student-athletes.
3)
There is no place in intercollegiate play for taunting, embarrassing
or degrading an opponent or game official. Student-athletes
who do so should be disciplined by their head coach in a timely
manner.
4)
Representatives of the NEWMAC member institutions will abstain
from making any public criticism or condemnation of other
member institutions, their personnel, the Conference in general
and its office staff or game officials.
5)
Coaches and administrators should make every effort to promote
and support the Conference and its member institutions in
a positive way.
6)
Coaches and student-athletes must be aware and mindful that
competing in intercollegiate athletics is a privilege, not
a right. Their actions and attitude toward opponents, game
officials and members of the media should reflect positively
on their respective institution and the conference.
7)
Institutional administrators and coaches are responsible for
insuring that all parties involved in intercollegiate athletics
– including student-athletes, athletic trainers, managers,
assistant coaches, band members, cheerleaders and mascots
are informed of the acceptable behavior that is expected of
them prior to the commencement of a season, and that these
same participants are made aware of consequences when failing
to abide by such standards and code of conduct.
8)
Coaches and student-athletes should be encouraged to live
up to their own highest personal standard of sportsmanship,
even when their opponents may not. Personal accountability
and respect for one’s own standards must come first.
9)
Both coaches and student-athletes should recognize and appreciate
skill in performance regardless of team affiliation.
10)
The responsibility to exhibit and develop good character and
sportsmanship should never be secondary to the desire to win.
The critical lessons and inherent value of sports are obtained
through the competition and admirable quest of victory, rather
than the outcome itself.
