Life Time Nevada Swim Team

The LifeTime Lightning Swim Team is committed to excellence, which includes the highest standards for athlete protection. All of our swim team staff are asked to perform annual background checks and are thoroughly checked prior to hire. We have in place locker room, swim meet and swim practice safe sport policies to keep our swimmers from misconduct or abuse.

To deal with a Safe Sport concern, contact USA Swimming at (719) 866-4578

Contact the U.S. Center for Safe Sport to make a report. Call 833-5US-SAFE (587-7233) or use the online reporting form or find more information at http://www.uscenterforsafesport.org

Our club Safe Sport Coordinators are Tyler Patterson and Celeste Konidaris. If you witness anything troubling in regards to Safe Sport please contact them immediately. They can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected].

The following Best Practice Guidelines are strongly recommended for all USA Swimming
members:

1. Parents should be encouraged to appropriately support their children’s swimming experience.

2. All swimming practices should be open to observation by parents.

3. Coaches should not initiate contact with or accept supervisory responsibility for athletes outside
club programs and activities.

4. When only one athlete and one coach travel to a competition, at the competition the coach
and athlete should attempt to establish a “buddy” club to associate with during the competition
and when away from the venue.

5. Relationships of a peer-to-peer nature with any athletes should be avoided. For example,
coaches should avoid sharing their own personal problems with athletes.

6. Coaches and other non-athlete adult members should avoid horseplay and roughhousing with
athletes.

7. When a coach touches an athlete as part of instruction, the coach should do so in direct view
of others and inform the athlete of what he/she is doing prior to the initial contact. Touching
athletes should be minimized outside the boundaries of what is considered normal instruction.
Appropriate interaction would include high fives, fist bumps, side-to-side hugs and handshakes.

8. Coaches should avoid having athletes as their favorites. They should also avoid creating a
situation that could be perceived as them having favorites.

9. Gift-giving, providing special favors or showing favoritism to individual athletes is strongly
discouraged.