Reporting:
USA Swimming (719) 866-4578 Deal with a Safe Sport Concern
Resources:
2020 USA Swimming Code of Conduct
https://www.usaswimming.org/docs/default-source/governance/governance-lsc-website/rules_policies/usa-swimming-code-of-conduct.pdf
Bullying Prevention
https://www.usaswimming.org/articles-landing-page/2017/02/16/bullying-prevention
Safe Sport Mondays
https://www.usaswimming.org/articles-landing-page/2017/02/10/safe-sport-mondays
MWYS Safe Sport Coordinator:
Haruru Lee [email protected] 781-325-5797
USA Swimming Best Practice
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.
USA Swimming Safe Sport page
https://www.usaswimming.org/Home/safe-sport
New England Swimming Safe Sport page
https://www.teamunify.com/team/lscnes/page/safesport
Reporting:
USA Swimming and Center for Safe Sport contact & reporting information
U.S. Center for Safe Sport to make a report. Use the online reporting form, call (720) 524-5640, or find more information at www.uscenterforsafesport.org.
Free Courses:
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Athletes and parents can independently complete the training sessions using the USA Swimming LEARN platform.
www.usaswimming.org/learn.
Codes of Conducts and Policies:
MWYS Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy
Social Media and Electronic Communications
Parent Consent Forms:
Permission for Licensed Massage Therapist
Permissions for Adult Athlete Lodging with a Minor Athlete
