At all times:

1. Provide a model of good sports behaviour for your swimmers.
2. Allow your swimmers to enjoy their sport in a friendly, safe and respectful environment.
3. Support your swimmers by helping them to arrive on time for training.
4. Encourage your swimmers’ independence by making them responsible for bringing and looking after their equipment.
5. Support your swimmers by encouraging them to have a healthy diet and enough sleep.
6. Be friendly to all new swimmers and their parents, encouraging them with their involvement in the club.
7. If and when possible, support the club by taking your turn at time keeping, fund raising, and other club / committee activities.
8. Please read the regular newsletter from the club for important information about coming events, changes to training times and location.
9. Please pay swim fees, meet entries, and all other payments at the required time.

At Training:

1. Parents are welcome to stay for the duration of training. However, to minimise poolside noise and distraction, parents are asked not to stay on poolside once swimmers are attired and training has begun.
2. Parents are asked to leave their stop watches at home, as times at training often bear no relation to competition.
3. Parents are reminded that during training sessions the Coach must concentrate on the swimmers. If parents have questions for the Coach about their individual swimmers, they can arrange a mutually convenient time to speak outside of training times. General information about the program and club activities is published regularly in the newsletter, and the club will endeavour to hold regular parents’ information sessions throughout the year.
4. During training parents are asked to leave the coaching, management and constructive criticisms of swimmers to the Coach, and / or Club officials as appropriate.

At Competitions:

1. Please cheer for your swimmers and all the other swimmers in the club. However, calling out to the swimmers while they are on the blocks, focussed for their races, or running along the poolside during a race, distracts both swimmers and officials.
2. Please keep clear of marshalling and time keeping areas.
3. Please do not ask time keepers for your child’s times immediately after a race. Times are collated and published as soon as possible after each event / meet.
4. Please accept the officials’ decision on your child’s swim, and discuss any concerns you have about a decision privately with the Coach at the conclusion of the meet.