Team Yakima encourages all adults to follow these PARENTAL STANDARDS
Make athletic participation for your daughter and others a positive experience.
Try to relieve the pressure of competition, not increase it. Your daughter may be easily affected by outside influences.
Applaud good plays by your team and by members of the opposing team. Be a role model of good sportsmanship for your daughter and other young athletes.
Do not criticize your daughter's teammates on or off the floor.
Show proper respect for all opponents. The opponents are necessary friends. Without them your daughter would have no one to play against and could not participate.
Between the excitement of the winner and the disappointment of the loser we find a person known as the official. All officials are pledged to call the match to the best of their ability, without bias. Give the official the respect to which they are entitled, even when you disagree or feel the official has made a mistake. Do not allow your daughter to blame the officials for a loss.
Do not openly question the official's judgment.
Accept the results of each game and encourage your daughter to: 1. be gracious in victory, and, 2. turn defeat to into a learning experience by focusing on working towards improvement.
Be kind to and respectful of your daughter's coaches.
Playing time is the decision of the head coach; accept this fact and help your daughter accept it.
While at a tournament, never accost a coach or attempt to discuss your daughter's playing time, her role on the team, or other aspects of her participation. Too much is going on during competition for this to be productive at that time.
If you wish to discuss your daughter's status with the coach, make an appointment to do so at a later date.
Get to know the parents of the other players on the team and in the club; you share the same stresses and satisfactions. You may form life-long friendships.
Parental evaluation and attitude carries a great deal of weight with your daughter. The attitude shown by you at home and at games, towards team members and coaches, influences your daughter's values and behaviors in sports and in life.
Acknowledgment: Much of the above wisdom was borrowed from the website of the Mt. Hood Volleyball Club. Thanks to them for putting this in writing! -- GFB