Safe Sport - Kona Aquatics
USA Swimming's top priority is the safety and well-being of its members. They strive to better educate and prevent abuse within the sport and to provide the best possible experience for its members, in the safest possible environment.
Kona Aquatics follows the USA Swimming Safe Sport Best Practice Guidelines
- Parents should be encouraged to appropriately support their children’s swimming experience.
- All swimming practices should be open to observation by parents.
- Coaches should not initiate contact with or accept supervisory responsibility for athletes outside club programs and activities.
- 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.
- 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.
- Coaches and other non-athlete adult members should avoid horseplay and roughhousing with athletes.
- 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.
- Coaches should avoid having athletes as their favorites. They should also avoid creating a situation that could be perceived as them having favorites.
- Gift-giving, providing special favors or showing favoritism to individual athletes is strongly discouraged.
Policies
- Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy
- Action Plan to Address Bullying Policy
- Team Travel Policy
- Locker Room Policy
- Photography policy
Code of Conduct
Procedures, Guides & Information
- Grievance Procedure
- Peer-to-Peer Resource Guide
- Safety Plan Worksheet
- Language for Meet Information
Written Permission
- Licensed Massage Therapist / Other Certified Professional / Health Care Provide to Treat a Minor Athlete
- Unrelated Adult Athlete to Share the Same Hotel, Sleeping Arrangement or Overnight Lodging Location with Minor Athlete
- Unrelated Applicable Adult to Provide Local Transportation to Minor Athlete
- Unrelated Applicable Adult to Travel to Competition Alone with Minor Athlete
Athlete Protection Training
- Athlete Protection Training
- Safe Sport Training for Minor Athletes
- Mandatory for USA Swimming Registered swimmers 12 - 17 years of age.
- Safe Sport Training for Adult Athletes
- Mandatory for USA Swimming Registered swimmers 18 years old and up.
- Safe Sport for Parents
- Mandatory for parents who interact one-on-one with swimmers. For example, parent chaperones on team/club organized swim trips.
- Bully Prevention
- Optional to all.
- Anti-Bullying Policy
- Safe Sport Training for Minor Athletes
- USA Swimming Minor Athlete Abuse Protection Policy (MAAPP)
- All Coaches, Staff, Parents, Swimmers, and Families must read.
- USA Swimming MAAPP Website
- Report a Safe Sport Concern
USA Swimming and U.S.Center for Safe Sport contact and reporting infromation:
- USA Swimming (719) 866-4578 Deal with a Safe Sport Concern.
- U.S. Center for Safe Sport to make a report. Use the online reporting form, call (833) 587-7233, or find more information at www.uscenterforsafesport.org.
Safe Sport Club Coordinator - Denise Boatwright - 808-352-1328, [email protected]
