Integrity In High School Sports

Belief: An athlete in a high school baseball program needs to believe in the coach’s knowledge, teaching and leadership skills in order for the team to be successful. A high school program needs to establish beliefs such as playing every pitch one pitch at a time, hustling, and having a positive mental attitude about every challenge that comes their way. These kind of beliefs have shown to be successful in past years. In order to achieve champion status, this is the way a team should strive to compete each and every day.
Honor: Honesty, integrity, and fidelity contribute to an individual’s sense of honor. Without this, the player will lose all credibility--not only on the baseball field, but in life. When an athlete tells a coach what he will do, the coach expects that the athlete will do exactly what he has said he will do. We are responsible for our actions in all we do. An honorable player will be someone the coach can trust in any situation, on or off the field.

The success of the team should be the top priority for each athlete. Each player needs to be willing to do what is necessary to help his team succeed. That means an athlete should do all he can to be the very best with the role he is given. In baseball, if a baserunner is thrown out at first base by a half of a step to lose a game, that athlete should feel confident that he did all he could to beat the throw. The athlete wants himself, his teammates and his coaches to know he worked as hard as he could in the weight room or on the conditioning field to beat the throw, and it just didn’t happen. Then and only then will his teammates be satisfied with the outcome of the game. Players rely on one another for the success of the