Safe Sport


 

LAN Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy (MAAPP 2025)

LAN MAAPP Consent Forms

MAAPP Definitions and FAQs

 

 

Safe Sport Best Practices 

 

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.

 

 

Lander Swim Club Safe Sport Coordinator

Joelle Titus 

ajtitusfamily@hotmail.com

 

  

To deal with a Safe Sport concern, contact USA Swimming at (719) 866-4578

 

Contact the U.S. Center for Safe Sport to make a report. Call 833-5US-SAFE (587-7233) or use the

online reporting form or find more information at http://www.uscenterforsafesport.org/

 

 

 

 

Links

USA Swimming Safe Sport

 

 USA Swimming MAAPP

 

Wyoming Swimming, Inc. Safe Sport