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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have seen a lot of very skilled girls played in this area- and the only ones who get 'heckled' are the ones that play dirty. Inapproriate shoving, tripping, hair pulling, etc... I have seen all of that and when that happens- I have hard parents say things like, 'hey #9- not cool' or 'ref. you going to call that o #9'

But the skilled players who also have good sportsmanship-often get compliments and cheers have the opposing parents.

The coaches are not dumb and hear and see what is going on.[/quote]

Nope. Not my experience at all. Parents in rec league sports -where we have been for years- are absolutely over-the-top. Heckling players, screaming, rubbing in wins, and yelling at umps/refs. We had one instance in a baseball game where a player was hit by the ball pretty hard. A parent of the other side lost his mind when he thought one of our players took a base against the rules when the play happened. Yelling at the player to get back a base, yelling at the ump. . .  the ump actually had to turn away from the injured child to address the parent and remind him that they'd deal with the score/runs after the injury.  This is only once instance. This is REC (and not even a competitive rec league). It's vile.[/quote]

I have 4 kids who have played various rec sports thru SYA and I have never, ever seen behavior like this. [/quote]

This was an SYA sport about a year ago. (I"m the PP who posted the story.)[/quote]

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