CEESA Statement of Fair Play

CEESA Statement of Integrity and Fair Play

The purpose of the Central and Eastern European Schools Association is to provide a venue for students from member schools to compete or gather in an environment that is safe, challenging, professional, and educational. Each student is given the opportunity to demonstrate her/his best ability while maintaining a spirit of respect and cooperation with fellow students from various international backgrounds. 

Each event involves students and adults in their different roles: these include student-athletes or participants, chaperones, coaches, and spectators. All those involved in the event are expected to uphold the same spirit of respect and cooperation. This spirit is demonstrated by fair play among students, positive encouragement from coaches, impartial judgments from officials and respectful enthusiasm from spectators. 

The behavior of the adults is crucial to the successful educational aspect of the event. The adults act as models for our student participants. Therefore profanity, deliberately making noises that interfere with the performance of a competing student, the condemnation of coaches or officials, or any behavior that is disrespectful or degrading to the CEESA standard of sportsmanship, jeopardizes the purposes of the CEESA organization and, most of all jeopardizes the quality of the experience for the students involved. 

As this event ensues, we ask that all of our parents, coaches, and students keep this vision of our purpose in mind.