CHAPTER 211

S.P. 26 - L.D. 84

Resolve, To Facilitate Implementation of the Sports Done

Right Program

Sec. 1. Adoption of core principles and practices of Sports Done Right program. Resolved: That middle schools, high schools and community sports programs throughout Maine are encouraged to work in collaboration with the Maine Center for Sport and Coaching at the University of Maine to promote healthy, positive and safe sports experiences for Maine youth, experiences that will enhance their emotional, ethical and social development. To this end, the Maine Center for Sport and Coaching is encouraged to facilitate the adoption of the core principles and practices presented in the January 2005 report entitled "Sports Done Right: A Call to Action on Behalf of Maine's Student-Athletes," referred to in this resolve as "the Sports Done Right program." The core principles and practices address each of the following:

1. Philosophy, values and sportsmanship;

2. Sports and learning;

3. Parents and community;

4. The quality of coaching;

5. Opportunity to play;

6. Health and fitness; and