• Attending off campus pre-season training camp
  • Acting as personal servant to players off the field, court
  • Participating in excessive calisthenics not related to a sport
  • Dressing up for team functions, nice clothing or uniforms
  • Keeping a specific grade point average
  • Taking an oath or signing a contract of standards
  • Yelling, cursing, or swearing at new team members
  • Consuming extremely spicy/disgusting concoctions
  • Doing volunteer community service
  • Wearing embarrassing clothing
  • Tattooing, piercing, head shaving, or branding
  • Depriving oneself of food, sleep or hygiene
  • Consuming large amounts of Alcohol
  • Being required to associate with specific people, not others
  • Completing a ropes course or team trip
  • Pairing up veteran players as mentors to new team members
  • Team dinners at someone’s home or going out for pizza as a team
  • Vandalizing private property
  • Coaches rarely supervise our locker room

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“By the age of 13, as many as 7 out of 10 kids will quit playing an organized sport, because it is simply not fun anymore.”

- The Aspen Institute Project Play