April 18, 2025 • 19 mins
According to the Center for Child Exploitation 1 in 5 girls and 1in 20 boys will be molested before the age of 20. Youth sports can be a haven for pedophiles and molesters . The need for screening is critical.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The topics and opinions expressed in the following show are
solely those of the hosts and their guests, and not
those of w FOCY Radio. It's employees are affiliates. We
make no recommendations or endorsements for radio show programs, services,
or products mentioned on air or on our web. No liability,
explicit or implied shall be extended to W FOURCY Radio
or its employees are affiliates. Any questions or comments should
be directed to those show hosts. Thank you for choosing
(00:21):
W FOURCY Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sports for kids in America began with what we affectionately
called sandlot ball, where kids organized their own games, made
their own rules, and played until the sun went down.
Then came along parents.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The National Alliance for Youth Sports was born out of
a desire to bring order to the world of organized
sports for children in America. While for the most part,
children have a great experience playing sports, far too often
parents and coaches lose perspective. This program is aimed at
bringing some of America's best experts to talk about what
(01:41):
we can do to change the atmosphere of win at
all costs and parent poor behavior to one that focuses
on children having a positive learning experience through sports. Here's
our host, Fred Ang, the founder of the National Alliance
for Youth Sports.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to Why Johnny Hates Sports.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think this is like our twelfth edition.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Or episode, and we're really happy to have CYSA. You're
probably saying, what is the CYSA in the recreation industry. Well,
it's a certified Youth Sports Administrator. And today's guest his
name is Jacory Brazil.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
So welcome to Cory.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Hey, thank you for having.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well listen, it's great to have you here. Hey, what
am I tell people? What a certified you Sport administrator that?
What does that mean? What does that mean to you?
Being one?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
For me, it means you know that I've you know,
taken the time to gain the knowledge. It to me
shows that I demonstrated the commitment to professionalism and the
betterment of youth sports.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So that's what it means to me. To the core
of it.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
It just signifies that, you know, I've taken the necessary
steps to develop my skills and expand my knowledge.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, that's great, and it's great that throughout the country
now there are over two thousand people like yourself, who
have taken the time to become a certified youth sport administrator.
You know, today to Core, I had the topic for
today's program and said, could your child's coach be a pedophile?
(03:38):
I told that to somebody and they went, wow, what
whoa You're kidding? I said, no, no, no, I'm not kidding.
Actually I told them something. Let me read something to
you first. It said, Globally, the World Health Organization estimates
that one in five women and one in seven man
(04:00):
report being sexually abused as children, which translates to millions
of cases annually. And then another one that experts estimate
that about ten percent of sexual child abuse cases are reported,
meaning the true number of incidents involving youth coaches could
(04:20):
be ten times higher than documented figures.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
That's horrified, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah it is. You know, we hear the stories.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
We know that a concern for parents every time they
sign their child up. So yeah, it definitely is when
you hear, you know, hear things like that, and you know,
even myself, when I you know, see something like that
on the news, that definitely breaks my heart.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There, Yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean it breaks into everybody's hard to know that
there are people out there.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
That are like that. So within your department, what do
you do to try to prevent that?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
We were taken action to Number one, make sure that
we screen them. And we do that by as far
as background checks here I mean making bib County, Georgia,
where we run our background checks through the Sheriff's department
the county here, but we also do a national wid
(05:31):
screening as well.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So with me also have experience as far as because.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I have to do make sure mentors get screening as well,
and because work with coaches, youth coaches as well as
mentors for our mentorship program for young men, so we
have to make sure that they all get get screened.
So that's one of the first steps resisting getting the
(05:59):
information that we're asking from them and then getting a screen.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Have you ever had to.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Report anybody that was a sexual abuser?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Did? Did not? Haven't? Haven't ran across that? Now we
did have ran across where the.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Flag did flag the system, you know, for certain for
certain disqualifications say look it's not suitable. Our system will
tell us they look not suitable to you know, to
work or to volunteer. So have ran into that where
I had to let a mentor know that hey, look,
(06:47):
you know would not be eligible at this time to volunteer.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know one of the scary parts about all of
it is the fact that you do go through screening
and you've had people out there that you think we're
wonderful people, but you never know.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know, you've got somebody that can hide behind a
lot of things.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And are there any you know, as a certified you
Sport administrator, if I were a parent and bringing my
kid out, what would there be anything that you could
tell me to say, Look, I'm doing with our department
everything that we can to protect your child and not
have to worry about having the deviants out there that
(07:34):
are behind the scenes trying to get out at all children.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I tell the parents you know, all the time.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Far as like I say, the first step of the process,
before we even have them conducting a practice or with
them being around their children, we do you know, like
I say, collect an extensive information, be able to make
sure that you know nothing suspicious pops up, but also
(08:07):
to our screening process also allows for us to if
anything pops up while there.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Coaching. Uh, then you know, we will be notified.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
So that's an advantage of you know, having a system
that will you know, update monthly, you know, for us
to be able to see things if if you know,
things changes, but also to I tell the parent. As
far as general supervision, you know, us as staff, we
make sure that we continue to have communication with our
(08:38):
youth coaches and we make sure that we still oversee
and and still supervise the program.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, it's great, especially the fact that you said that
you haven't identified anybody or or how to you know, prosecute,
not to prosecute yourself, but have them be prosecuted.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
So it must be great doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And it sounds to me like being a certified you
sported administrator certainly helped. Did you when when you went
to become certified? And I'm sure how long have you
been certified.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've been certified. I got my certification it was last year.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I also did the front line did the frontline class releases,
so that that was very beneficial. Learned a lot right away.
But also you know, been with Nay's done a lot
of the KNAS training for years now. So since Riley,
since I did my first knage training was like two
thousand and nine.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
So let me ask you this. Were you a former
athlete yourself?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, yes, I'm a former athlete, participated in sports ever
since I was young. And I tell people not only
a former athlete, but all so unofficial as well as
a coach myself.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So so there's there's a lot of people out there,
and I guess I can count myself in with them
being a former athlete and my sport was wrestling and
and uh so, you know, I look around at all
the people that are used sports administrators and I often
wonder how many of them are former athletes, and that
(10:28):
is that the reason that they're in the field of recreation.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I believe so? I believe so. I think either either they.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Far as with recreation, they either played a lot of sports,
or they love the the ability to be able to
put programs together for the community, you know, whether it's
a own old tournament or you know, our our our class.
They love the you know, just put stuff together for
(11:00):
the community, really helping out. You find a lot of
people in the recreation field just have a passion to
help people in the community. I know myself personally, I
you know I love sports. I am a huge I
love football, basketball. You know, I can talk sports all day.
I played wrestling, I was on the wrestling team, varsity
(11:24):
golf team, football, basketball, track team. I'm a marathon runner now.
So I love all things recreation and fitness and this
is the perfect field for me.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
So a lot of times people talk about in recreation
and in sports and whether you played in high school
or college or whatever level.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I always come back to ask people and say, what
did that teach you? What do you think it taught
you about life?
Speaker 7 (11:59):
I'm multiple different attributes from you know, teamwork, you know,
being able to take risks, stepping out of your comfort zone,
hard work, determination, you know, so many, so many different
attributes that that that's key, you know that I that
I use now even you know, doing my job, how
(12:22):
to work with how to work with my team, how
to communicate with my team.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I use. My staff will probably tell you he used
a lot of sports examples.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
But you know, even like basketball, right how you know
you hear your coach in the back of your back
of your head, just you know you hear those reminders
of hey talk on defense. Make sure you communicate with
your with your teammates, and you know we do that
now far as hey remember to communicate with your.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Team and so so those things, you know, that's what
I take with me every day on a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
You know, one of the things that we talk about
with the National Alliance for Youth Sports is that the
sports are the outdoor classroom of life and the things
you just talked about.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
So I asked one of the people that were on
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Ago, and I said, okay, let me give you an
example a question of of the fact that if sports
are the outdoor classroom, obviously you have a classroom. We're
kids that are in school learning, reading, writing, risk I
take the deal and I said, if there's a superintendent
(13:39):
of schools, why is it there a superintendent of youth sports?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Is there in Macon County?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Now, I wouldn't say, because there are different leagues, but
we you know, if I had to say far as
a superintendent, it would be our director, our recreation director,
who is plugged in with with all the sports, a
lot of sports because we have multiple and in different
(14:14):
different sports leagues, not just the leagues that come from
the Recreation department, but our our director would would kind
of be the one that takes that role right there.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Well that's great. Well, listen, I want to tell you
it was great heavy you on today and to talk about,
you know, being a certified you Sport administrator and knowing
all the things that go on. But one of the
things that you probably received from the National Alliance is
the press box. And we talk about the press box
(14:50):
stories and and I want to pull one of these
up that you see that go on every week, and
I want to see what your reaction is to that.
So if our engineer can pull up the press box,
you will look at them.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I guess we're not going to have the press box anyway.
We talk about the different stories that are on there,
and it's just amazing to me that each week that
we send out four or five different stories that are
horrific about coaches and parents and things that go on
(15:38):
in these different communities. And I say, you know, it's
amazing that we could do one every week with four
or five different stories. This isn't once every month or
once a year, it's every single week.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So what do you think that we can do?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know, collectively, as a country of recreation, People like yourself,
what can we do to prevent these stories? Is there
anything that we can do to prevent it?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Well, that's that's a tough one, but definitely a good question.
And I'll say, and I believe it's just you know, staying.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
You know, just far as staying on watch, just always
being observant, always being in the mix. And when I
say being in the mix meaning you know, always having
those communications with your volunteers, uh, with your parents, and
also with the athletes as well. You know, you know,
(16:41):
you because a lot of times when it comes to
these you know, stories, is like a lot of times
it's too late. But just having those communications, making sure
far as supervising, and then also to you know, using
the tools that that we have, making sure that you know,
we do a good job as sports administrators using our
(17:05):
tools that needs provide, but also you know, spreading those
resources out to our coaches and parents, letting them know
the different whether his signs that they could probably be
able to see with their child as well as you know,
when it comes to coaches, you know, hey, look here's
(17:26):
how you know, not to even put yourself in the
position of having your you know, a good deed to
be able spoken of.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I say that all the time.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You know, that's you know, that's something that we have
to continue to to work on, continue to you know,
bring to the forefront. All is a to me, is
something that is continuous when it comes to working on
it and trying to solve that, you know, solve that
(17:58):
issue and make sure those things never happened.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, it's like I say, it's so great to have
people like you that are so concerned and doing such
a great job. You know, not only they are in Georgia,
but all new certified you sport administrators. Until that came along,
it wasn't really anybody like people like yourselves really taking
(18:24):
it serious and saying, like I said a long time
ago when I saw it, when I was a recreation person,
I said, something's got to do something about this. And
now you guys are doing something about it. So I
applaud you and your staff and everything else that you're doing.
And again thanks again for being on the show, and
(18:45):
good luck there and we'll talk to you hopefully the
next time.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right, yes, sir, I appreciate you having me thinks.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
All right, great, okay, that's it for today. And sorry
we didn't I have the press box up to discuss
a few of the issues, but we'll be back again
next Friday at eleven am and to see you then.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
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Speaker 5 (19:28):
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(00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Sports for kids in America began with what we affectionately
called sandlot ball, where kids organized their own games, made
their own rules, and played until the sun went down.
Then came along parents.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
The National Alliance for Youth Sports was born out of
a desire to bring order to the world of organized
sports for children in America. While for the most part,
children have a great experience playing sports, far too often
parents and coaches lose perspective. This program is aimed at
bringing some of America's best experts to talk about what
(01:41):
we can do to change the atmosphere of win at
all costs and parent poor behavior to one that focuses
on children having a positive learning experience through sports. Here's
our host, Fred Ang, the founder of the National Alliance
for Youth Sports.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to Why Johnny Hates Sports.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I think this is like our twelfth edition.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Or episode, and we're really happy to have CYSA. You're
probably saying, what is the CYSA in the recreation industry. Well,
it's a certified Youth Sports Administrator. And today's guest his
name is Jacory Brazil.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
So welcome to Cory.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Hey, thank you for having.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well listen, it's great to have you here. Hey, what
am I tell people? What a certified you Sport administrator that?
What does that mean? What does that mean to you?
Being one?
Speaker 7 (02:43):
For me, it means you know that I've you know,
taken the time to gain the knowledge. It to me
shows that I demonstrated the commitment to professionalism and the
betterment of youth sports.
Speaker 6 (03:02):
So that's what it means to me. To the core
of it.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
It just signifies that, you know, I've taken the necessary
steps to develop my skills and expand my knowledge.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah, that's great, and it's great that throughout the country
now there are over two thousand people like yourself, who
have taken the time to become a certified youth sport administrator.
You know, today to Core, I had the topic for
today's program and said, could your child's coach be a pedophile?
(03:38):
I told that to somebody and they went, wow, what
whoa You're kidding? I said, no, no, no, I'm not kidding.
Actually I told them something. Let me read something to
you first. It said, Globally, the World Health Organization estimates
that one in five women and one in seven man
(04:00):
report being sexually abused as children, which translates to millions
of cases annually. And then another one that experts estimate
that about ten percent of sexual child abuse cases are reported,
meaning the true number of incidents involving youth coaches could
(04:20):
be ten times higher than documented figures.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
That's horrified, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Yeah, yeah it is. You know, we hear the stories.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
We know that a concern for parents every time they
sign their child up. So yeah, it definitely is when
you hear, you know, hear things like that, and you know,
even myself, when I you know, see something like that
on the news, that definitely breaks my heart.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
There, Yeah, I guess it does.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I mean it breaks into everybody's hard to know that
there are people out there.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
That are like that. So within your department, what do
you do to try to prevent that?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
We were taken action to Number one, make sure that
we screen them. And we do that by as far
as background checks here I mean making bib County, Georgia,
where we run our background checks through the Sheriff's department
the county here, but we also do a national wid
(05:31):
screening as well.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
So with me also have experience as far as because.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
I have to do make sure mentors get screening as well,
and because work with coaches, youth coaches as well as
mentors for our mentorship program for young men, so we
have to make sure that they all get get screened.
So that's one of the first steps resisting getting the
(05:59):
information that we're asking from them and then getting a screen.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Have you ever had to.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
Report anybody that was a sexual abuser?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Did? Did not? Haven't? Haven't ran across that? Now we
did have ran across where the.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Flag did flag the system, you know, for certain for
certain disqualifications say look it's not suitable. Our system will
tell us they look not suitable to you know, to
work or to volunteer. So have ran into that where
I had to let a mentor know that hey, look,
(06:47):
you know would not be eligible at this time to volunteer.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
You know one of the scary parts about all of
it is the fact that you do go through screening
and you've had people out there that you think we're
wonderful people, but you never know.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
You know, you've got somebody that can hide behind a
lot of things.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And are there any you know, as a certified you
Sport administrator, if I were a parent and bringing my
kid out, what would there be anything that you could
tell me to say, Look, I'm doing with our department
everything that we can to protect your child and not
have to worry about having the deviants out there that
(07:34):
are behind the scenes trying to get out at all children.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I tell the parents you know, all the time.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Far as like I say, the first step of the process,
before we even have them conducting a practice or with
them being around their children, we do you know, like
I say, collect an extensive information, be able to make
sure that you know nothing suspicious pops up, but also
(08:07):
to our screening process also allows for us to if
anything pops up while there.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Coaching. Uh, then you know, we will be notified.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
So that's an advantage of you know, having a system
that will you know, update monthly, you know, for us
to be able to see things if if you know,
things changes, but also to I tell the parent. As
far as general supervision, you know, us as staff, we
make sure that we continue to have communication with our
(08:38):
youth coaches and we make sure that we still oversee
and and still supervise the program.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Yeah, it's great, especially the fact that you said that
you haven't identified anybody or or how to you know, prosecute,
not to prosecute yourself, but have them be prosecuted.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
So it must be great doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
And it sounds to me like being a certified you
sported administrator certainly helped. Did you when when you went
to become certified? And I'm sure how long have you
been certified.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've been certified. I got my certification it was last year.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
I also did the front line did the frontline class releases,
so that that was very beneficial. Learned a lot right away.
But also you know, been with Nay's done a lot
of the KNAS training for years now. So since Riley,
since I did my first knage training was like two
thousand and nine.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
So let me ask you this. Were you a former
athlete yourself?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Yes, yes, I'm a former athlete, participated in sports ever
since I was young. And I tell people not only
a former athlete, but all so unofficial as well as
a coach myself.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
So so there's there's a lot of people out there,
and I guess I can count myself in with them
being a former athlete and my sport was wrestling and
and uh so, you know, I look around at all
the people that are used sports administrators and I often
wonder how many of them are former athletes, and that
(10:28):
is that the reason that they're in the field of recreation.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (10:34):
I believe so? I believe so. I think either either they.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
Far as with recreation, they either played a lot of sports,
or they love the the ability to be able to
put programs together for the community, you know, whether it's
a own old tournament or you know, our our our class.
They love the you know, just put stuff together for
(11:00):
the community, really helping out. You find a lot of
people in the recreation field just have a passion to
help people in the community. I know myself personally, I
you know I love sports. I am a huge I
love football, basketball. You know, I can talk sports all day.
I played wrestling, I was on the wrestling team, varsity
(11:24):
golf team, football, basketball, track team. I'm a marathon runner now.
So I love all things recreation and fitness and this
is the perfect field for me.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
So a lot of times people talk about in recreation
and in sports and whether you played in high school
or college or whatever level.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I always come back to ask people and say, what
did that teach you? What do you think it taught
you about life?
Speaker 7 (11:59):
I'm multiple different attributes from you know, teamwork, you know,
being able to take risks, stepping out of your comfort zone,
hard work, determination, you know, so many, so many different
attributes that that that's key, you know that I that
I use now even you know, doing my job, how
(12:22):
to work with how to work with my team, how
to communicate with my team.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I use. My staff will probably tell you he used
a lot of sports examples.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
But you know, even like basketball, right how you know
you hear your coach in the back of your back
of your head, just you know you hear those reminders
of hey talk on defense. Make sure you communicate with
your with your teammates, and you know we do that
now far as hey remember to communicate with your.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Team and so so those things, you know, that's what
I take with me every day on a daily basis.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
You know, one of the things that we talk about
with the National Alliance for Youth Sports is that the
sports are the outdoor classroom of life and the things
you just talked about.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
So I asked one of the people that were on
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
Ago, and I said, okay, let me give you an
example a question of of the fact that if sports
are the outdoor classroom, obviously you have a classroom. We're
kids that are in school learning, reading, writing, risk I
take the deal and I said, if there's a superintendent
(13:39):
of schools, why is it there a superintendent of youth sports?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Is there in Macon County?
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Now, I wouldn't say, because there are different leagues, but
we you know, if I had to say far as
a superintendent, it would be our director, our recreation director,
who is plugged in with with all the sports, a
lot of sports because we have multiple and in different
(14:14):
different sports leagues, not just the leagues that come from
the Recreation department, but our our director would would kind
of be the one that takes that role right there.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Well that's great. Well, listen, I want to tell you
it was great heavy you on today and to talk about,
you know, being a certified you Sport administrator and knowing
all the things that go on. But one of the
things that you probably received from the National Alliance is
the press box. And we talk about the press box
(14:50):
stories and and I want to pull one of these
up that you see that go on every week, and
I want to see what your reaction is to that.
So if our engineer can pull up the press box,
you will look at them.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I hope.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
I guess we're not going to have the press box anyway.
We talk about the different stories that are on there,
and it's just amazing to me that each week that
we send out four or five different stories that are
horrific about coaches and parents and things that go on
(15:38):
in these different communities. And I say, you know, it's
amazing that we could do one every week with four
or five different stories. This isn't once every month or
once a year, it's every single week.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
So what do you think that we can do?
Speaker 4 (15:57):
You know, collectively, as a country of recreation, People like yourself,
what can we do to prevent these stories? Is there
anything that we can do to prevent it?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Well, that's that's a tough one, but definitely a good question.
And I'll say, and I believe it's just you know, staying.
Speaker 7 (16:20):
You know, just far as staying on watch, just always
being observant, always being in the mix. And when I
say being in the mix meaning you know, always having
those communications with your volunteers, uh, with your parents, and
also with the athletes as well. You know, you know,
(16:41):
you because a lot of times when it comes to
these you know, stories, is like a lot of times
it's too late. But just having those communications, making sure
far as supervising, and then also to you know, using
the tools that that we have, making sure that you know,
we do a good job as sports administrators using our
(17:05):
tools that needs provide, but also you know, spreading those
resources out to our coaches and parents, letting them know
the different whether his signs that they could probably be
able to see with their child as well as you know,
when it comes to coaches, you know, hey, look here's
(17:26):
how you know, not to even put yourself in the
position of having your you know, a good deed to
be able spoken of.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
I say that all the time.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
You know, that's you know, that's something that we have
to continue to to work on, continue to you know,
bring to the forefront. All is a to me, is
something that is continuous when it comes to working on
it and trying to solve that, you know, solve that
(17:58):
issue and make sure those things never happened.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Well, it's like I say, it's so great to have
people like you that are so concerned and doing such
a great job. You know, not only they are in Georgia,
but all new certified you sport administrators. Until that came along,
it wasn't really anybody like people like yourselves really taking
(18:24):
it serious and saying, like I said a long time
ago when I saw it, when I was a recreation person,
I said, something's got to do something about this. And
now you guys are doing something about it. So I
applaud you and your staff and everything else that you're doing.
And again thanks again for being on the show, and
(18:45):
good luck there and we'll talk to you hopefully the
next time.
Speaker 6 (18:50):
All right, yes, sir, I appreciate you having me thinks.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
All right, great, okay, that's it for today. And sorry
we didn't I have the press box up to discuss
a few of the issues, but we'll be back again
next Friday at eleven am and to see you then.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
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