Team Bullying

If you are someone who plays a sport or has ever been involved in a sport before, you know that there is a difference between competitive play and bullying.  Bullying involving a team or sports member involves on or more of the team members intentionally trying to hurt someone else usually on the opposite team.  There are multiple types of bullying when it comes to team bullying.  These types include verbal bullying, physical bullying, and also relational bullying.  Verbal bullying is the form that involves one or more teammates name-calling, taunting, threatening another teammate of opposing opponent team member.  Physical bulling is the form in which includes slapping, hitting, tripping, and any other form of physical violence to a teammate or a team member from the opposing side.  The last category of team bullying is relational bullying, which is the type that includes excluding another player, hurtful/embarrassing trash talk, and also gossiping.  All of these components can really hurt someone’s feelings both physically and eve emotionally and especially when it comes to sports.  The reason why the topic of bullying on sports teams is so important is because of the fact that it can affect the way a person continues to play the sport, or can also affect them to the point where they don’t even want to play the sport anymore.  Everyone should know their boundaries when it comes to picking on or judging other people, even though it shouldn’t even happen in the first place.  Coaches should do their best to try and prevent bullying between their teammates and also players from other teams that way hopefully bullying will eventually be stopped, not just in sports, but also on a daily basis. 

"Bullying And Sports." STOMP Out Bullying. STOMP Out Bullying, 2014.

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