intramurals
Sportsmanship
Sportsmanship is vital to the conduct of every intramural contest. In order to encourage proper conduct during games, officials, administrative personnel, and supervisors shall make decisions on whether to warn, penalize, or eject players or teams for poor sportsmanship. These decisions are final. The intramural directors and/or the rules and protest committee will rule on further penalties as a result of unsportsmanlike conduct.
The following may be considered as evidence of unsportsmanlike conduct:
- profanity
- unnecessary delay of the game
- striking or shoving an opponent
- arguing with officials concerning decisions (discussion is allowed as long as it is done in a mature manner by the team captain)
- derogatory and abusive remarks toward an opponent or official
- touching an official
- any action the intent of which is to physically injure an opponent or official
- any action which may potentially cause equipment or facility damage
- any action which shows disregard for the rules or policies of the intramural program
Each student participating on a team should choose his or her team members carefully, as all team members will suffer the consequences of any disciplinary action taken by Recreational Services against that team for violation of the intramural rules.
A team captain/manager is responsible for actions by an individual member of the team or for spectators directly related to the team. The conduct of the players and the spectators before and after the game is just as important as the conduct during the game. An organization will be held responsible for its conduct at these times as well as during the game.
Unsportsmanlike conduct and ejection policy
If any intramural participant or spectator is ejected from any activity, he or she is immediately ineligible for further competition in any intramural activity until he or she is cleared by the intramural assistant director or his or her designee. When ejected from an activity, the participant or spectator must immediately leave the facility, Recreation Complex, or intramural playfields.
It is the participant's responsibility to schedule an appointment with the intramural assistant director to review his or her behavior and subsequent eligibility in any intramural activity. Penalties are effective after the meeting with the intramural director or his or her designee (i.e., no self-imposed penalties).
Individual
Ejection from a contest for unsportsmanlike conduct will result in penalties against the individuals involved. These range from the minimum of the basic unsportsmanlike penalty below to suspension from all intramural activities for one full calendar year depending on the severity of the unsportsmanlike action.
Team
Team involvement in unsportsmanlike conduct may result in a minimum of probation for that team up to removal from the intramural schedule. (See team suspension below.)
The number one priority in intramural play is good conduct and sportsmanship. When taunting and baiting are allowed to take place, sportsmanship takes a backseat. Examples include, but are not limited to, harassing, heckling, badgering, teasing to engender ill will, or mocking or challenging in an insulting manner. Any demonstration of taunting or baiting during intramural activities will be penalized.
Intramural probation
Individual
The individual may continue his or her participation in that sports season with the full understanding that any further reports of unsportsmanlike conduct will result in stricter penalties, i.e., suspension.
Team
Intramural probation places a team on probationary status. Any further unsportsmanlike conduct will result in suspension from any further intramural participation. This also applies to teams not in attendance at captain's/manager's meetings or soccer captain's meeting.
Intramural suspension
Individual
The individual may not participate in any intramural activity, whether it be a team sport, meet sport, or an individual sport. Any action taken against an individual does not preclude the right to take action against the organization the individual represents for the same incident(s) of unsportsmanlike conduct.
Team
Suspension from intramural activities prohibits the suspended organization from participating in any team or meet sports or being represented in individual sports during the period of intramural suspension.
The term of probation or suspension for individuals and teams may be set for a particular sport, semester, year, or an indefinite period.
Please refer to Recreational Services unsportsmanlike conduct and ejection policy for further information.
Basic unsportsmanlike penalty
Any participant ejected from a contest will not be allowed to participate in his or her team's succeeding contest. Doing so will result in intramural probation. This is a minimum penalty. Other penalties may be applied.