Safe Sport, USA Swimming & Cody Kountry Aquatics Team (CKAT’s)
USA Swimming and is committed to providing a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for all members, especially its athletes. In 2010, the organization launched the Safe Sport program, a comprehensive effort to prevent abuse and misconduct at every level of the sport.
Since then, Safe Sport has focused on education, policy development, and club empowerment ensuring that athletes, coaches, parents, and volunteers have the tools they need to recognize risks and respond appropriately. The program promotes a culture of accountability and respect, making athlete safety the top priority across all swim clubs and the LSC.
CKAT’s swim club fully supports USA Swimming’s Safe Sport and Safety programs and provides these helpful resources for our club members:
CKAT’s Safe Sport’s Documents:
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
CKAT’s fully Supports USA Safe Sport and would like to provide the following documents to our club:
Concent Forms for CKATS:
Minor Athlete Consent to Lodge with an Adult Non Coach
Transportation by CKAT Organization
CKATS Individual Training Sessions
If you have experienced or witnessed abuse or misconduct—or if you have reasonable suspicion of abuse or misconduct inflicted on, or by, someone within the CKAT Club Organization don't hesitate to get in touch with any of the CKAT Coaches or Board Members.
You can also report directly to USA Swimming or the US Center for SafeSport at:
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(719) 866-4578
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Text anonymous tips to 888-270-SWIM (7946)
U.S. Center for Safe Sports Help Line at (833) 5US-SAFE (587-7233)
OR use the
online reporting form or find more information at http://www.uscenterforsafesport.org/
Team Safe Sport Contact Mindy Butcher- [email protected]
