Sportsmanship Starting Young

The Wheaton Park District is going above and beyond to make sure its sports programs teach kids more than fundamentals.

The Wheaton Sun has a really nice article highlighting the park districts push to promote character and sportsmanship through athletics. It's program stresses the importance of coaching the kids, while also teaching them life lessons and team unity. Some coaches have even brought in former professional athletes to help inspire the kids.

Here's what one of the coaches had to say about the effort:

"It is important for kids in our society to see that hard work produces results, whether on the baseball field, classroom or eventually in the work environment. We also need to realize this is Park District and the boys are still young, thus helping the boys to connect and play as a team moves their collective performance a step further than just more drills."

It's so great to see a community trying to teach kids the importance of being a good person. That's too often overlooked!

You can check out the full Wheaton Sun article here: Hits, runs and sportsmanship