To All Parents, Swimmers, Volunteers and Coaches,
Safety is our biggest concern at Ripon Aquatics (RA). We would like all involved with the swim program to be familiar with the protocols of what we believe to be a safe and healthy environment for our swimmers. In an effort to promote this, we encourage each of you to educate yourself on what it means to be involved with a program that upholds the guidelines of Safe Sport.
While dedication and hard work are imperative for success in the pool, we want our program to work equally hard towards ending abuse in sports. We hope that each swimmer feels the comfort and safety of a Safe Sport Program that allows them to excel in the pool without the distraction of bullying and abuse. The following links provide information and courses to become familiar with the Safe Sport guidelines – this is for everyone, including the swimmers!! Eventually we would like all involved in our program to become Safe Sport Trained and Certified. If you have any questions about Safe Sport certification and/or our policies, please feel free to reach me at jersters@hotmail.com.
In addition, for every athlete swimmer that completes the requiredbSafe Sport training you will receive a RA Team Cap.
Thank you all for your continued support of the program!
Sincerely,
Jeremy West
Ripon Aquatics Performance Safe Sport Coordinator
LINKS:
Safe Sport Parent Toolkit
uscenterforsafesport.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Parent-Toolkit_Complete-1.pdf
Safe Sport Training – for athletes and adults
athletesafety.org/training/index
USA swimming Online Clinic Series – safe sport
www.usaswimming.org/articles-landing-page/2017/04/03/online-clinic-series---safe-sport
Attention RA Swimmers and families-
We have been working tirelessly to try to get things started back up again. We are now one step closer with being allowed to open the pool for Ripon High School Water Polo conditioning. We are waiting to hear back about opening for club. Hopefully sooner than later. Unfortunately, both our Public swimming and summer swim lessons will be cancelled for the remainder of the summer. Stay tuned.......
Great to see Ty Sandra Carrizales Wells before he is off to Arizona for his Junior year. Man how time flies. 😍
Great article on our very own senior swimmer Matthew Trejo. The most important ingredients of success are the ability to bounce back from adversity, and a positive attitude. Roadblocks and adversity are part of daily life, no matter where you live, but if you maintain positive attitude you can sail smoothly down the rough river of life. Matthew is a prime example.
www.mantecabulletin.com/sports/high-school-sports/saluting-seniors-spring-matthew-trejo/
SALUTING SENIORS OF SPRING: Matthew Trejo
www.mantecabulletin.com
The future looked bright for Matthew Trejo at the end of his freshman year.