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Here are some suggestions for getting involved with ABW and returning character-driven behavior into the sport experience. For more ideas, please contact us and ask one of the program directors or education director for assistance.
Join ABW:
- Sign and live by the Code, displaying honorable character.
- Adopt the ABW Code and present it to your coach or teammates at the beginning of the season.
- Ask each your teammates and team parents or guardians to sign the Code on the same document or create a large poster board version of the Code that can be signed by the entire team as a public document.
- Register yourself and your teammates as members of ABW.
- Read and discuss the ABW newsletter. It contains articles that encourage and reinforce living by the Code.
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Promote the ABW message:
- Place ABW color posters in locker rooms, gyms, and playing fields as visible reminders of the expected sport behavior.
- Obtain free promotional items such as key chains, ink pens, and bumper stickers to use and to give to others.
- Purchase some incentive items such as lapel pins and t-shirts to share with your teammates, administrators, coaches and parents.
- Give the Code to members of other teams to demonstrate the sport behavior you value.
Reach out to your community:
- Create ways you and your teammates can give back to your local community during or after the season. You can search the website “Giving Back” button for ideas.
- Examine ABW’s list of partner organizations to see what other teams in your area are doing and explore ways you might work together.
Get nationally involved:
- Sign up yourself and your teammates for Star Players, an ABW program that awards stars toward a bronze, silver, or gold medal for completing a set of activities based on the Code. Participants that reach the gold level may attend a summer sport camp with ABW athletic advisory members, interact online with professional athletes, and compete for college tuition grants.
- Ask your captains to enroll in ABW’s Captain Certification program through which they can earn a captain certificate and a patch for their letter jacket by completing a set of activities based on sport leadership. Participants that receive exemplary commendation are entitled to serve as leaders at a summer sport camp presented by ABW athletic advisory members.
- Ask your teammates to volunteer for Courts for Communities, an ABW program that enables them to contribute to improving the lives of others as volunteers on the construction of a playfield in selected rural and/or urban areas across the country. Travel, housing, meals and two-weeks of supervised work and social activities are provided by ABW staff.
- Consider enrolling in Athletes Abroad, a program through which athletes and coaches have the opportunity to live and train with other athletes around the world. Travel, home-stay accommodations, a training program, and several social-cultural amenities are provided by ABW staff.
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