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@chuckwielgus
The International Swimming Hall of Fame's mission is to promote the benefits and importance of swimming as a key to fitness, good health, quality of life, and the water safety of children.
The Annual Paragon Awards, sponsored by Pentair Aquatic Systems, are presented for outstanding contributions to: Competitive Swimming, Water Polo, Competitive Diving, Aquatic Safety, Synchronized Swimming and Recreational Swimming.
Chuck Wielgus, Executive Director of USA Swimming and CEO of USA Swimming Foundation
USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus established Safe Sport in 2010 to raise awareness and reduce the risk of abuse of athletes.
The following is the decision-tree process for parents or athletes with concerns.
There are many reasons why a child should participate in sports. Sports teach important life lessons including goal-setting, teamwork and self-confidence, in addition to the great exercise it provides.
Chuck Wielgus has been the executive director of USA Swimming since 1997, and the CEO of the USA Swimming Foundation since its inception in 2004. He established the Safe Sport program in 2010.
BEST OF 2012 | USA OLYMPIC SWIMMING TEAM “And swimming is straightforward: Eight people get in the water and start paddling, one of ‘em touches the finish wall first. In other words, inconsistent folks at NBC don’t get to pick and choose which parts of the event we see or don’t.”
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also, that Call Me Maybe video.
USA Swimming
Missy Franklin balancing a water bottle on her head while swimming to practice head stability during her backstroke
It all starts at the top, with Chuck Wielgus. We have a system. If you go to other countries, they’re going to say the same, but when it comes down to it, Team USA is just the best. And I think it’s because we have something in our system that we don’t break.
Olympian Ryan Lochte in Fortune.com about why Olympic swimming is so dominant.
"There are two great concerns we have about the Rio Games."
“We’ve been extremely supportive of FINA’s leadership,” said USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus . “(The FINA director) was very quick to agree to a meeting so we were very pleased by that. We saw that as a very positive response.”
USADA CEO Travis Tygart and USA Swimming's Chuck Wielgus in January will check in on the anti-doping actions of FINA, the sport's governing body.
USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus on FINA’s leadership and anti-doping leading up to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov. 20, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- There are many reasons why a child should...
USA Swimming’s Chuck Wielgus offers five tips to help parents understand, identify and prevent misconduct in sports to keep kids safe.
“#SafeSport Impact Award Winner Paul Stockett getting some hometown love https://t.co/6EN1dcNh9M @phillydotcom @midatlanticswim”
USA Swimming Impact Award Winner Paul Stockett featured in news report.
Swimmers Honored for Goggles For Guppies Program
USA Swimming’s Make a Splash Foundation is honoring Mission Viejo swimmers Chris and Matt Hales at the upcoming Golden Goggles event for their heroic work with Goggles for Guppies, a service project they started in 2011 to help prevent childhood drowning. You can learn more about Goggles for Guppies by visiting their website, www.gogglesforguppies.org.
The purpose of this USA Swimming Safe Sport code of conduct for coaches is to establish common expectations for all members of the coaching staff of the club. It is to be used as a guide to promote...
Great guide for coaches and Safe Sport rules. -- Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming Executive Director.
What Is USA Swimming’s Safe Sport Program?
Safe Sport is USA Swimming’s abuse prevention effort.
USA Swimming is committed to fostering a fun, healthy, and safe environment for all its members.
The Safe Sport program has a wealth of resources, policies, best practices, tools, and procedures to help empower you to create and maintain a healthy and safe environment for your athletes.
What does that mean for this swim club?
•All non-athlete members (coaches, officials, etc.) are subject to a criminal background check and a pre-employment screening, as well as complete USA Swimming’s Athlete Protection Training.
•All member clubs are required to have athlete protection policies in place with regard to travel, electronic communication, and anti-bullying.
•Swim clubs have access to an arsenal of resources to assist the club leadership with implementing the best practices guidelines for athlete protection.
How will my child be protected?
Required Policies:
•Team Travel
•Electronic Communication
•Anti-Bullying Plan
Recommended Policies:
•Photography
•Locker Room Monitoring
•Best Practice Guidelines
•Codes of Conduct for Coaches, Athletes, and Parents
What is the expectation for my involvement?
•Communicate with your child, your child’s coaches, and other parents. •Observe practices and help out at meets and team events.
•Know the standards of conduct for all coaches, volunteers, and athletes, and speak up if the standards are not being upheld.
•Who do I contact if I have a concern?
•Head Coach
•Assistant Coach
•Board President
USA Swimming Safe Sport:
Congrats to Paul Stockett, winner of the USA Swimming Safe Sport Impact award for getting fellow members involved in athlete protection. Paul is an assistant swim coach at Boilermaker Aquatics, and was a collegiate swimmer at Purdue University.
USA Swimming is working to increase awareness and reduce the risk of abuse in swimming through its Safe Sport program. With all youth sports, creating a safe environment is the responsibility of all adults who work with kids. For the past five years, USA Swimming has worked to increase awareness to reduce the risk for abuse in the sport through the Safe Sport Program. While we are fortunate to provide wonderful memories and life lessons for our 400,000 members, it's a heartbreaking truth that victims of abuse often have the opposite experience.
USA Swimming Safe Sport Online Toolkit
Maintaining a Safe Sport culture begins at the swim club level. To foster this safe environment for members, USA Swimming has put together an online toolkit that offers tips for parents, anti-bullying guidelines, and model policies and guidelines.
Click on the Safe Sport Toolkit.
Under USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus’ leadership, USA Swimming established the organization’s Safe Sport program, which fosters a safe and healthy environment and protects the organization’s swimmers against sexual abuse and inappropriate behavior.
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. Two-deep Leadership: One coach member and at least one other adult who is not in the water should be present at all practices and other sanctioned club activities whenever at least one athlete is present. Clubs and coaches should evaluate their seasonal plans and map out how to best accomplish this strongly recommended guideline.
4. Open and Observable Environment: An open and observable environment should be maintained for all interactions between adults and athletes. Private, or one-on-one situations, should be avoided unless they are open and observable. Common sense should be used to move a meeting to an open and observable location if the meeting inadvertently begins in private.
5. Coaches should not invite or have an athlete(s) to their home without the permission of the athlete’s parents (or legal guardian).
6. During team travel, when doing room checks, attending team meetings and/or other activities, two-deep leadership and open and observable environments should be maintained.
7. Athletes should not ride in a coach’s vehicle without another adult present who is the same gender as the athlete, unless prior parental permission is obtained.
8. During overnight team travel, if athletes are paired with other athletes they shall be of the same gender and should be a similar age. Where athletes are age 13 & Over, chaperones and/or team managers would ideally stay in nearby rooms. When athletes are age 12 & Under, chaperones and/or team managers may stay with athletes. Where chaperones/team managers are staying in a room with athletes, they should be the same gender as the athlete and written consent should be given by athlete’s parents (or legal guardian).
9. 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.
10. Communications between non-athlete adult members and athletes should not include any topic or language that is sexual or inappropriate in nature.
Chuck Wielgus, USA Swimming Executive Director, is quoted in USA Today about next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and chances for medals. Track and swimming combined for 53 percent of the US’s medals over the last four Olympics.
"There's always a level of anxiety," said Chuck Wielgus, the executive director of USA Swimming since 1997. "I'd say the level of anxiety is probably higher this time around than any time I've been executive director. But there have never been more opportunities for people to step up and make an impact on the Olympic team."
