The Central Maryland Dive League (CMDL) has created the following Code of Conduct.  Please take a few minutes to review and ask your Dive Rep. if you have questions:

CODE OF CONDUCT

1. No team personnel, to include coaches, assistant coaches, managers, participating and non-participating competitors, table workers, parents (volunteer judges), or other person associated with running any dive team shall act in an unsportsmanlike manner. This now also includes anyone that is there as a spectator. This includes any act the Referee deems poor sportsmanship, such as (but not limited to):

       a. Making insulting or derogatory remarks, gestures or acts.

       b. Trying to influence or showing disgust with referee’s decisions.

                c. Interfering with meet officials in the performance of their duties.

 2. In other situations:

     Actions include, but are not limited to, verbal and/or physical attempts to annoy, harass threaten, or intimidate a diver, coach, league     officer, dive representative, table worker, referee, volunteer parent judge, member of parents' organization by any individual (diver,   parent, coach, dive representative, etc.) associated with an opposing or other team, shall be considered a violation and shall be subject   to penalties as noted below.

    In the meaning of this rule, verbal harassment includes, but is not limited to, verbal insults, the initiation or repetition of unfounded   rumors and/or innuendoes suggesting improper behavior on the part of a diver, coach, league officer, dive representative, etc.   Grievance actions initiated in retribution for previous grievance actions also fall under this regulation.

3. Penalties for conduct violations:

a.  For unsportsmanlike or unsafe conduct, team personnel as defined above, may be disqualified from further participation (including the diver of the parent who is committing the egregious act). Any individual violating this code of conduct shall receive a warning for the first offense, may be asked to leave the premises for the second offense and may be subject to further action by the Rules, Grievance & Ethics committee for a third or subsequent offense.

b. When a spectator(s) becomes unruly or interferes with the orderly progress of the meet, the Referee shall suspend the meet until meet management (host pool) removes the individual(s) from the premises.

c. Individuals or groups of individuals engaging in attempts to harass or intimidate some other person as noted in paragraph 2 above shall be subject to appropriate penalties to include, but not limited to:

            1) Disqualification and deprivation of individual competitive privileges for one or more meets;

            2) Loss of team points and forfeiture of the age group or meet;

            3) Disqualification from Individual Championships and other post-season competition;

            4) Other penalties as deemed appropriate by the Rules, Grievance and Ethics Committee.