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Hazing still very much a part of sports
Jeff Heuchert
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Perceived as an old tradition not
common amongst today's athletes,
hazing is still very much a part of
organized sports, according to Brian
O'Reilly of Brucefield.
"The general feeling is it's under
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control. The truth is, they can't keep
pace with it," says O'Reilly, regard-
ing the perceived notion that league
officials can stop hazing incidents.
Hazing is a team tradition where
rookies are initiated by a teams vet-
eran players.
In the past month, two major inci-
dents of hazing have come public.
The first was with the McGill
University football team, where a
rookie was allegedly sexually
assaulted with a broomstick.
The second incident occurred in
the Ontario Hockey League, where
rookies from the Windsor Spitfires
were forced to strip naked and cram
themselves into the team bus bath-
room.
In just the past two weeks alone,
new incidents have been made pub-
lic with a girl's high school and
Junior A men's hockey team, and a
high school football team.
O'Reilly believes hazing is a reflec-
tion of society, where "people try to
humiliate other people to control
them."
It's a form of bullying, which chil-
dren grow accustomed to at a very
early age, he says.
O'Reilly says bullying goes on
everywhere, but maybe the moat in
sports arenas, and fields, around
the world.
"There's bullying from parents to
get their kids to play well and work
harder," he says "Parents yell and
scream at referees, opposing teams,
and then players bully players, and
we're surprised?"
This leaves an athlete with a
"sense of approval that is wrapped
up in hazing and bullying, because
it's what they understand," he says.
Players look at hazing as a team
bonding experience, which is far
from the truth, says O'Reilly.
"If you humiliate someone, you
won't get the best out of them," he
says, noting that if hazing helped to
build team spirit, it would be prac-
tised in offices and companies.
O'Reilly has vast experience in the
fields of psychology and sports.
A graduate of social work,
O'Reilly has many years experience
helping teams and athletes around
the world as a counsellor, life coach
and mental fitness coach.
Also a Olympic men's volleyball
team coach, O'Reilly says his area of
expertise is team building and team
bonding.
"I helped them (individuals) work
through team issues and the rela-
tionships between body and mind,"
he says.
O'Reilly says hazing is happening
in men's and women's teams at
every level, including Olympic
teams.
Over the past couple of years,
O'Reilly has listened first-hand to
many athletes confess to having
been the victim of hazing.
"It messes them up, confuses
them," he says.
"It can have a tremendous affect
on them," he says. "The kids I've
talked to (who have gone through
an incident of hazing) were trauma-
tized."
O'Reilly says he has spoken to a
number of coaches through the
years that look at hazing as nothing
more than a tradition, one that will
help a player "fit into the team, and
be taken down a peg," says O'Reilly.
The other hurdle to stopping haz-
ing, and maybe the biggest, is giving
athletes the support, so they can
speak up when an incident has
occurred.
But, there's an unspoken rule
among athletes that what happens
on the road, stays on the road, says
O'Reilly.
"If they open their mouths, they
are basically kissing their dreams
goodbye."
O'Reilly warns parents, "hazing is
going to happen to your child, it's
going to be humiliating, so they're
going to have to look at their
integrity, and decide is it worth it?"
Unfortunately, he says 99 per cent
of kids will decide it's not worth
speaking up when a hazing inci-
dent has occurred, and they will not
risk their chance at playing profes-
sional sports.
The best advice O'Reilly can give
to anyone in a situation where
they've been a victim to hazing is,
"If it (hazing) happens to you, don't
do it back. Break the cycle."
Scoreboard
S 11
Nov. 23
Men's high: Hank Dorssers 4
wins, Joe Van Dooren, Harry
Pennings, Ken Lingelhach, Bert
Bachert 3 wins.
Ladies' high: Ann Van Dooren 4
wins, Grace Corbett 3 wins.
BOWLING
Seniors
Nov. 25
Men's high single: Paul
Copeland 266
Men's high triple: Paul Copeland
595
Men over 200: Paul Copeland
266, Hank Dorasers 247, Claude
Stewart 212.
Men over 600: none
Women's high single: Joyce
Matzold 189
Women's high triple: .Joyce
Matzold 553
Women over 176: Joyce Matzold
189, 184, 180; Olave Little 182.
Women over 500: Joyce Matzold
553
St. James
Nov. 21
Men's high single: Gary Huston
251
Men's high triple: Gary Huston
644
Men over 200: Gary Huston 212,
251, Pat Elliott 248, Pat Ryan 233,
Bob Dinsmore 228, Gord Murray
226, Tom Leppington 224.
Men over 600: Gary Huston 664
Women's high single: Janice
Morris 204
Women's high triple: Julie
Geddes 582
Women over 200: Janice Morris
204
Women over 600: none
Standings: Ravens 49, Dolphins
44, Marlins 43, Colts 34, Vikings
31, Eagles 30.
Men's Intertown
Seaforth 19 Molesworth 2 14
Seaforth downed Molesworth 2 by
a 19-14 score. George Johnston led
Seaforth with 209, 294, 290, 286,
256 - 1335; Gary Allan Huston
bowled 204, 234, 300, 256 and won
5 games; Gary Huston had 216,
223, 225, 268, 209 - 1141; Don
Elliott bowled 219, 268, 209 - 1012;
and Bob Dinsmore had 236, 205,
210 and won 3 games. High bowler
for Molesworth 2 was Ron Walters
with 235, 324, 297, 262. 227 -
1345; Chad Ward had 274, 271,
257 - 1190; Rob Anderson 218,
229, 313 - 1112; and Mark
Kennedy 219, 282, 201 - 1071.
See SCOREBOARD, Page 17