Travel Guidelines

Purpose:  Beadling Soccer Club strives for excellence on and off the field and acknowledges that traveling to games and tournaments is an important part of building successful teams and players.  The travel guidelines below are intended to remind Beadling Personnel of their responsibility to positively represent Beadling Soccer Club, as well as to maintain the safety of everyone in our organization.  

• Beadling Personnel who are not acting as a legal guardian, shall not ride in a vehicle alone with an unrelated player who is a minor, absent emergency situations, unless agreed to by the minor player’s parent or legal guardian in advance of travel.

• Any one-on-one or team meetings must be observable and interruptible and be held in an open public space.  If a private area is required, then it must be in the presence of another Beadling Personnel member, team manager, or parent of one of the players.

• In some circumstances, Beadling leadership may require that Boys and Girls teams in the same age group that are traveling to the same tournament or event be placed in separate hotels.

• While staying in the same hotel, Beadling teams of the opposite sex are permitted to have casual association in public spaces during free time, but absolutely no player will enter the rooms of players of the opposite sex unless the individuals are related.

• Beadling Personnel must use good judgement when drinking alcohol at any club-sanctioned tournament or event.  Drinking alcohol to excess or participating in any form of illegal substances (defined by local, state, and federal law – whichever is the most restrictive) is prohibited.