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CCS Participant Code of Conduct

CCS Participant Code of Conduct

Youth sports programs play an important role in promoting the physical, social and emotional development of children. It is therefore essential for parents, coaches and officials to encourage youth athletes to embrace the values of good sportsmanship. Moreover, adults involved in youth sports events should be models of good sportsmanship and should lead by example by demonstrating fairness, respect and self-control.  To uphold this athletic standard, Connecticut Coast Soccer (CCS) requires that, as a prerequisite to registering their child/children for a CCS activity that all parents, coaches, and administrators review and agree to the following Code of Conduct:  

I pledge to be responsible for my words and actions while attending, coaching, officiating or participating in a CCS program's or clinic, and shall conform my behavior to the following:

1. I will not engage in unsportsmanlike conduct with any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
2. I will not encourage my child, or any other person, to engage in unsportsmanlike conduct with any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
3. I will not engage in any behavior which would endanger the health, safety or well-being of any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
4. I will not encourage my child, or any other person, to engage in any behavior which would endanger the health, safety or well-being of any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
5. I will not use drugs or alcohol while at a youth sports event and will not attend, coach, officiate or participate in a youth sports event while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
6. I will not permit my child, or encourage any other person, to use drugs or alcohol at a youth sports event and will not permit my child, or encourage any other person, to attend, coach, officiate or participate in a youth sports event while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
7. I will not engage in the use of profanity.
8. I will not encourage my child, or any other person, to engage in the use of profanity.
9. I will treat any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee with respect regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or ability.
10. I will encourage my child to treat any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee with respect regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or ability.
11. I will not engage in verbal or physical threats or abuse aimed at any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee
12. I will not encourage my child, or any other person, to engage in verbal or physical threats or abuse aimed at any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
13. I will not initiate a fight or scuffle with any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
14. I will not encourage my child, or any other person, to initiate a fight or scuffle with any coach, parent, player, participant, official or any other attendee.
15. I understand and agree that each soccer field utilized by CCS is a smoke-free environment – there is no smoking at CCS events.

A failure to confirm to the foregoing while attending, coaching, officiating or participating in a CCS program or clinic, will result in disciplinary action, including but not limited to the following, in any order or combination:

1. Verbal warning issued by an authorized CCS official or game official.
2. Written warning issued by an authorized CCS official.
3. Suspension or immediate ejection from a CCS program or clinic, issued by a CCS Official, who is authorized to issue such suspension or ejection.
4. Suspension for the remaining calendar year from a CCS program or clinic, issued by a CCS official who is authorized to issue such suspension or ejection.
5. Permanent suspension from all current and future CCS program and clinic, issued by a CCS official who is authorized to issue such suspension or ejection.