LOCKER ROOM POLICY

PURPOSE 

The following guidelines are designed to maintain personal privacy as well as to reduce the risk of misconduct in locker rooms and changing areas.   

 

FACILITIES 

The following is a description of our practice and competition facilities to allow athletes and their families to plan their use. 

 

We practice at: The Ken Shannon Northwest YMCA

13838 W 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67235

 

This location has Two separate, gender-specific, locker room/restroom facilities and one family/accessible locker room. Each locker room/restroom has:

a. A separate, shower/locker room/changing area that is shared with swim lesson students, swim lesson parents, and lap swimmers.

b. A separate, restroom area that is shared with swim lesson students, swim lesson parents, coaches, swim lesson instructors, and lap swimmers. 

 

 

MONITORING  

Coaches and staff make every effort to recognize when an athlete goes to the locker room or changing area during practice and competition and, if they do not return in a timely fashion, we will check on the athlete’s whereabouts.   

 

We discourage swim team parents from entering the locker room/changing area side during practice and meets unless it is truly necessary. There is a private changing stall in the women’s restroom side and private toilet stalls in the men’s restroom side to utilize if a same-sex parent needs to assist their child with his or her uniform or gear, for example. In those instances, it should only be a same-sex parent.

 

NO UNATTENDED BOYS ARE ALLOWED IN THE WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM.

 

NO UNATTENDED GIRLS ARE ALLOWED IN THE MEN’S LOCKER ROOM.

 

USE OF CELL PHONES AND OTHER MOBILE RECORDING DEVICES 

Use of any devices (including a cell phone’s) recording capabilities, including voice recording, still cameras and video cameras in locker rooms, changing areas is prohibited.

 

The USA Swimming Athlete Protection Policies and NW YMCA Facility Rules prohibit the use of such devices in the locker room or other changing area:   305.3 Use of audio or visual recording devices, including a cell phone camera, is not allowed in changing areas, rest rooms or locker rooms.