There are new rules for parents and fans who go to events sponsored by the Catholic Youth Organization after a fight broke out between two moms at an elementary school basketball game.<\/p>\n
The fight caught on camera shows one mom approach another at an elementary kids basketball game last month.<\/p>\n
The video, obtained by the Staten Island Advance and confirmed by Catholic Youth Organization sports officials shows the moms go head-to-head in an all-out fist fight. More spectators join in, some continuing the brawl while others tried to break it up. <\/p>\n
Now, in large part because of the fight, CYO sports is announcing a policy change. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe CYO is no longer gonna tolerate fights that just ruin it and crush it for kids,” Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said. <\/p>\n
Fossella announced new guidelines for the dozens of locations that host CYO sports across Staten Island. If a spectator is removed by a referee for any reason they will now be banned from all games for a year. If they’re warned twice or are engage in a physical fight, they will be banned for life. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere were kids on the court crying because they didn\u2019t know what was happening, the game had to come to an end\u00a0 and these kids suffer,” said Fossella. <\/p>\n
CYO sports officials say that while \u201cbad behavior\u201d comes from a small percentage of parents, in recent years, it\u2019s become harder to recruit referees and coaches for the roughly 4,000 students who participate in CYO sports teams.<\/p>\n
Parents outside St. Teresa\u2019s where the December brawl happened agree with the changes, many hoping the focus will return to the young athletes.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, you get passionate over your kid, but you know there’s a time and place for those,” mom Katherine said. <\/p>\n
The families involved in the December brawl have been banned from all CYO sporting events indefinitely. Officials hope that sends a message to the community that this type of bad behavior won\u2019t be tolerated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are new rules for parents and fans who go to events sponsored by the Catholic Youth Organization…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-99541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}