Protecting everyone involved with our
Safer Summer Program
Breathe a sigh of relief with the SLS Safer Summer Program. Our program includes our comprehensive insurance coverage for swimmers, background checks for coaches and any adult who has regular contact with a child, as well as our certification course for coaches-or anyone wanting to bring a more positive attitude to the pool deck.
Protecting everyone involved with our
Safer Summer Program
Breathe a sigh of relief with the SLS Safer Summer Program. Our program includes our comprehensive insurance coverage for swimmers, background checks for coaches and any adult who has regular contact with a child, as well as our certification course for coaches-or anyone wanting to bring a more positive attitude to the pool deck.
What’s Included in the Safer Summer Program?
We have everyone covered with our all-in-one Safer Summer Program. So what exactly is included and why will it be beneficial?
Insurance Coverage
Our comprehensive insurance coverage includes general liability and excess accident protection, sexual abuse and molestation coverage, as well as defense against false sexual abuse and molestation claims.
Millions of children participate in summer league swimming programs each summer. Many volunteers give countless hours coaching, coordinating and hosting swim meets. While competitive swimming is admirable and coaching is a noble pursuit there are inherent risks involved in any athletic endeavor whether you are participating as an athlete, coach, volunteer or coordinator.
Summer League Swimming has attempted to mitigate many inherent risks through a comprehensive insurance program. As a seasonal sport with many volunteers, the risks involved with summer league swimming may not be apparent. That is why SLS has put together an insurance program that benefits not only swim league members and participants, but also coaches, volunteers, officials, and staff. The SLS insurance program is comprehensive in nature and provides protection for athletes while participating in practices and competition and for coaches while providing instruction.
Quality Background Checks
Have confidence your swimmer is safer with us. We offer nothing less than advanced Level 2 Background checks for your peace of mind.
With over 1,200 background check companies in the United States, it can be overwhelming to know which company to trust. We have put in the effort to make it easy for you to offer quality, affordable background checks for everyone in your organization.
Swim Coach Certification
Great swimmers start with great coaches. Our Coach Certification Courses help coaches learn and grow in their craft so they can become great leaders.
The SLS coach certification course is tailored specifically to summer league swim coaches. While our course was created by the Positive Coaching Alliance, we added a splash of summer league by including the best practices used by the best summer league coaches and teams. Do you want more? Our course is hosted by Olympic swimmers! Isn’t that the best?!
Introducing the SLS Guppy Care Program
Many summer league swim teams and leagues offer a Guppy program for young swimmers who may not quite be ready for the regular swim team.
Due to Guppies are often welcome at swim practices and are encouraged to participate in all team and league socials, they need insurance protection as well. That’s where we come in!
At Summer League Swimming, we want all of your swimmers to have adequate protection – including your swimmers who are just starting to make a splash.
Fill out the form below to get started in your free evaluation of your current coverage and for details on how we can keep your swimmers and guppies equally protected in your school of swimmers.
Types Of Insurance
We Offer To Our Clients
It is the goal of Summer League Swimming to introduce children from the ages of 5-18 years to the sport of swimming by providing fun, safe, and healthy environments. The positive experience will encourage children and their parents to signup for year round swimming at USA Swimming, the local YMCA, or by joining the local high school swim team.
Swimming is a community made up of children and adults who can live healthier, safer and more satisfying lives from a lifetime of benefits that swimming provides. It begins with learning to swim and joining a local summer league swimming program.
Insurance Program
Summer League Swimming Keeps Swimmers Safer
The most sensitive topic for any youth program to discuss is sexual abuse. All responsible programs require background checks for coaches and league volunteers, but too often those checks are sent out to the lowest bidder and you end up getting what you paid for. Summer League Swimming is committed to doing more than just checking the box and that is why our background checks are decidedly not the cheapest in the market.
Although thorough background checks help minimize the risks, no one can guarantee 100% that an incident will not occur. It is also important to recognize that after all is said and done, not all reported incidents turn out to be true. Regardless, all reported incidents must immediately be thoroughly investigated by the proper authorities and seen through to appropriate conclusions.
Sumer League Swimming offers insurance programs to protect the personal liability of league officials, volunteers and coaches if an incident occurs, so that only proven guilty perpetrators are rightfully subject to criminal or civil liabilities. For those who subscribe to our sexual abuse insurance policies, we further support our member organizations with corresponding crisis communications plans and consulting services to help manage through such scenarios we all hope never to face.
SLS is committed to protecting the integrity of the sport and supporting safer and healthy programs. Fill out the form below to learn more.