COACHES FORMS
Coaches are asked to complete and submit the following forms to the Athletic Director prior to the first competition/game of the season.
Coaches are asked to follow the following SSNS Code of Ethics guidelines.
SSNS CODE OF ETHICS
It is the duty of all concerned with School athletics:
To encourage and promote friendly relationship and good sportsmanship throughout each school by requiring courtesy and proper decorum at all times.
To encourage and promote positive race relations, cross-cultural understanding and human rights with respect to race, culture, ethnicity, gender, ability, lifestyle, diversity and religion.
To insist upon implicit compliance with all rules and regulations of the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation.
To secure approved officials for all contests.
To recognize that good sportsmanship is as important as victory, by approving and applauding good team play, individual skill, and outstanding examples of sportsmanship and fair play exhibited by either team.
To take special care to treat visiting teams and officials as guests, extending to them every courtesy.
To be modest in victory and gracious in defeat.
To respect the judgment and integrity of referees, judges and other officials, realizing that their decisions are based upon game conditions as they observed them.
To identify any member school which may be suspected of recruiting student athletes from other schools for the purpose of participating in their interscholastic program.
Recruiting is considered to be contact by a coach or other school representative intended to influence a student to attend a school for the purpose of athletics other than the school he/she would normally attend.
Contact is permissible only after the student’s enrolment in the school is approved by School Board Authorities.
Recruiting is a serious breach of the Code of Ethics and as such should be brought to the attention of the Board of Governors through the Executive Director. Individuals found to be involved in recruiting shall be liable for suspension.
To educate student-athletes concerning the dangers and ethical violations of the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Individuals found to be involved with using performance-enhancing drugs shall be liable for suspension.
To promote fair and equitable competition in all contests and to recognize the educational need to control games involving teams that are over-matched by employing strategies to limit the negative experience of lopsided contests.
To ensure that all NSSAF activities are tobacco free for all players, coaches, parents, officials and spectators.
The athlete, in addition should:
Play hard and to the limit of his/her ability, regardless of discouragement. The true athlete does not give up, nor quarrel, cheat, bet or ‘play to the grandstand’.
Maintain a high degree of physical fitness by observing team and training rules conscientiously.
Abstain from the use of performance enhancing drugs.
Play for the love of the game.
Set a high standard of personal cleanliness and appearance.
Demonstrate respect for the diversity among participants as it relates to race relations, cross-cultural understanding and human rights.
Demonstrate qualities of fair play in contests involving teams/individuals that are over-matched.
The coach, in addition, should:
Maintain self-control at all times, accepting adverse decisions without public display of emotions, or of dissatisfaction with the officials.
Employ accepted educational methods in coaching, giving all players an opportunity to use and develop initiative, leadership and judgement.
Take a strong stand against profanity, abusive language, gambling and similar violations of a true sportsman’s code.
Pay close attention to the physical condition and well-being of all players, refusing to jeopardize the health of any individual for the sake of improving the team’s chance to win.
Promote and demonstrate respect for the diversity among participants as it relates to race relations, cross-cultural understanding and human rights.
Recognize contests that become non-competitive and use the opportunity to promote fair play, provide additional game time for less skilled athletes and promote the ideal of ‘Education through Sport’. Participation in school sport should be enjoyable and fulfilling. Student-athletes should be assured of experiencing competitive educational opportunities through meaningful playing time.
“The true sportsperson is always a gentleman/lady. He/she plays fair; is clean of body, mind and soul and is courteous to friend and foe. He/she meets victory without boasting, defeat without bitterness, and all life with a smile. He/she loves his/her friend, his/her country and his/her God.”
There is no place in school athletics before, during or after competitions for the use of drugs or alcohol of any kind. Any use of drugs or alcohol that can be directly associated with any school athletic event must be reported to the Regional Director. The Regional Director shall make a full report to the Executive director who shall take whatever appropriate action is necessary. This would certainly include any post-game celebrations at the site of the event or traveling home from the event. The Principal shall investigate and report in writing to the Regional Director and/or Executive Director breeches of the Code of Ethics and/or Regulations governing behaviour of student-athletes and/or coaches of the school for which he/she is responsible.
Violations of the Code of Ethics may lead to disciplinary action up to and including suspensions.
Attached Forms: