Ethical Issues In Sports

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An athletic director usually will not watch a team practice or watch them in the weight room, so for the administrator to find out about a situation like this, the player’s teammates probably went to the athletic director with their complaints. If there is a student-athlete in the athletic department that is causing tension with her teammates because she is late to practice, misses class, and does not do the right things, the administrator should first call the coach in for a meeting and ask what he or she is doing to address the situation. If the coach says that they have met with this athlete and addressed her missing class and being late to practice, then the athletic director should ask why she is continuing to do the wrong things and if the coach was going to punish her. If the coach says that they have not addressed these issues with the athlete, then …show more content…

A coach should be a role model for their players and someone they can look up to for guidance and to tell them when they do something wrong. The two ways to do this are by treating the team with respect by not treating one player better than the next and by holding each athlete accountable for their actions when they break the rules (Mac, 2013). It would seem as an administrator that this coach is not holding all of their players accountable for their actions since Britney continues to start even though she is late to practice and misses class. The athletic director should also tell the coach he or she needs to do a better job of teaching all their athletes to make positive choices in their life and to support each and every one of their teammates (Stankovich, 2014). Teammates do not have to be best friends and hang out all the time, but they need to know that their teammate will have their back during a game and Britney is showing her teammates that they cannot count on

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