I hope this year's season will be the best yet as this team grows with age and great life building experiences. We hope this will be some of the best memories that you and your child will have in the years to come. We promote a family environment that encourages personal growth and respect. We follow the YMCA principals and standards as we strive to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. Correct stroke techniques, rules and regulations and proper principals of swimming, are just the starting grounds for our program. This program was built with a team approach. This means that we will encourage one another and help each other at all times. Understanding this helps to develop self esteem, while learning to work with others as a team. No one child is more important than another. Each brings their own personal influence to this team. In the end all swimmers are winners, just by entering the water.

~ Kelsi

General Policy

• Routine disciplinary issues relating to swimmers will be handled directly by the coaching staff. Repeated or more serious infractions by swimmers, as well as any disciplinary issues relating to parents, will be resolved by the coaches along with the aquatics director.

Disciplinary Procedure for General Misbehavior at Practices

• While great effort will be made to give children the benefit of the doubt, constant misbehavior at practices or meets to the point of team disruption will not be taken lightly.
• Initially, the swimmer will be warned by the coach as to what he/she is doing wrong and is requested to stop.
• If after being warned the swimmer continues to misbehave, he/she will be removed from the pool for a period of 15 minutes.
• If the misbehavior continues, the swimmer will be dismissed from that practice and escorted to a telephone to call home. The swimmer must then wait poolside until his/her ride arrives.
• Dismissal from a second practice will result in a meeting with the head coach and the swimmer's parents to discuss ways to rectify the problem.
• If after a meeting with the parents and swimmer, the swimmer is excused from another practice, the matter will be brought to the head coach's and aquatic director's attention for a decision regarding a suspension or expulsion from the team.
• Any swimmer who does not immediately comply with a coach's enforcement of the above steps will be subject to the next level discipline.

Notes on Disciplinary Procedures

• Any type of physical altercations or verbal abuse of teammates or opposing team athletes will not be tolerated. After gathering all facts from any witnesses to incidents, if it is found that a Riptide swimmer did physically or verbally abuse anyone while at practices or meets, they will immediately be suspended for a minimum of one month and must ask the permission of the head coach to remain a member of the Riptide swim team.
• The discipline policy is aimed primarily at the higher level training groups, and is not intended to punish young children acting like young children.
• All children have bad days, and it is possible that your swimmer may be sent home. You are encouraged to discuss any incident with the coaches.