MIVCA ETHICS STATEMENT

We the members of the Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Association, affirm the following:

1. To display, encourage and appreciate the best sportsmanship possible in all aspects of the sport of volleyball, toward our opponents, the officials, our teams, colleagues, parents, and fans.

2. To educate our players, parents, fans, colleagues, and administrators in the rules and etiquette of the game, especially the new rule changes, thereby creating a more knowlegeable and appreciative volleyball audience.

3. To teach bio-mechanically correct and safe techniques to our players.

4. To ingrain through good practice management, the healthy necessity of thorough warm-up and cool down for every practice and game.

5. To appreciate our opponents. Each one has something positive to share with our teams. To teach our teams to learn from our experiences, our wins and our losses.

6. To continue our own professional development in the sport of volleyball.

7. To motivate, appreciate, and educate our players to be well rounded human beings, who will in their turn motivate, educate, appreciate, and care about others.

8. To guide our players academically, socially, as well as athletically in a professional and appropriately caring manner.

9. To conduct ourselves with appropriate and exemplary professionalism.

10. To apologize sincerely when we have been inappropriate or mistaken.

11. To support and encourage both girls AND boys in volleyball participation and excellence.

12. To bring the fun and focus of volleyball to a new and higher level.

13. To add to the self-confidence and assurance of those we coach.

14. To laugh and enjoy the incredibly silly, but spectacularly intense and magnificent game of volleyball for as long as we are able to share it JOYFULLY with others.

15. PLAY ON!!!