SAFE SPORT COURSE LINK FOR SWIM PARENTS (Parents Guide to Misconduct in Sport)
Please email your completed certificate to [email protected]
USA Swimming’s top priority remains keeping our athletes safe. No form of abuse, including child sexual abuse, has a place in our sport. As a part of our continued commitment to safeguarding our athletes, USA Swimming has enacted enhancements to our Safe Sport policy and education requirements.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport (“the Center”), the separate, independent organization that oversees all sexual misconduct reports in the Olympic and Paralympic Movement, created the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies to set a baseline for acceptable safety standards that limit one-on-one interactions between adults and minor athletes.
The Center urged all National Governing Bodies (NGBs) to add restrictions tailored to fit the sport. On April 29, 2019, USA Swimming released its Minor Athlete Protection Policy (MAAPP) addressing one-on-one interactions, social media and electronic communications, travel: local and team, locker rooms and changing areas and massages, rubdowns, and athletic training modalities. All USA Swimming member clubs are required to implement MAAPP in full by June 23, 2019.
Please read the policy below, along with the educational resources, to help you implement MAAPP.
Training our members in abuse prevention and mandatory reporting is as important as creating policies. USA Swimming must provide regular and consistent training for all adults who interact with and have direct contact with minor athletes, including adult athletes. Starting June 23, 2019, as a condition of membership, all athlete members ages 18 and over must complete Athlete Protection Training.
USA Swimming - Minor Athlete Prevention Policy (MAPP)
USA Swimming - Educational Documents and Webinars
USA Swimming - Safe Sports Education for Parents
USA Swimming - Safe Sports Education for Minor Athletes
USA Swimming - Safe Sports Best Practices
USA Swimming and Center for Safe Sport contact & reporting information
- USA Swimming (719) 866-4578 Deal with a Safe Sport Concern.
- U.S. Center for SafeSport 833-5US-SAFE (587-7233).
- Pike Hightower 770-325-7292 ext. [email protected].
- Optional: include how to report anonymously. Text anonymous tips to 888-270-SWIM (7946)
Parent Consent Forms
STINGRAYS Swimming - For a licensed massage therapist or other certified professional or health-care provider
STINGRAYS Swimming - For an unrelated adult athlete to share the same lodging with minor athlete
STINGRAYS Swimming - For an unrelated applicable adult to travel to competition with minor athlete
STINGRAYS Swimming - For an unrelated applicable adult to provide local transportation to minor athlete
STINGRAYS Swimming - Grievance Procedure
