Why Kids Should Go On Travel Trips
Why Kids Should Go On Travel Trips
Not every team offers travel trips, but if yours does, your kids will benefit from them. Team travel means swimmers travel to a meet or other activity that is planned or supervised by the team or LSC—without mom and dad driving and staying with their kids. Reasons why teams don’t go on travel trips include not enough swimmers, liability, responsibility or cost.
If you do have a team that travels together, your coach may have age and attendance requirements, plus there may be meet standards your children need to achieve before being invited on a trip.
USA Swimming offers guidelines that include “club travel policies must be signed and agreed to by all athletes, parents, coaches and other adults traveling with the club” and “Team managers and chaperones must be members of USA Swimming and have successfully passed a USA Swimming-administered criminal background check.” The model policy can be found here.
