USA Table Tennis recognizes that individuals are placed at increased risk in unfamiliar surroundings,
during travel and especially travel where an overnight stay is involved.
USA Table Tennis holds a firm recommendation that overnight stays involving minors should be
avoided whenever possible.
Where this is not possible USA Table Tennis requires that the following rules are adhered to;
- No USATT adult member (unless a parent), employee, volunteer, coach, referee, umpire,
official, club director, club owner, club operator, tournament director, USATT contractor, or
other participant shall share a sleeping arrangement of any sort with a minor.
- Players should without fail share with other players of the same gender, with 1-4 players
assigned depending on availability of accommodations.
- Regular monitoring of curfews and rooms should be conducted by a party of two
appropriately screened adults, working in tandem.
- The hotel or accommodation must be requested to block any and all adult channels including
free to air adult channels where available.
- Individual meetings between any adult and minor must take place in a public place, such as a
lobby and expressly not in a private area such as a hotel room.
- Team administrators and coaches must permit regular check-in calls to parents, and at the
request of any participant allow further unscheduled check-in calls to home.
- Family members travelling with the party should be encouraged to use the same hotel as the
team.
- A team chaperone of at least one person of the same gender of the team (properly screened)
must accompany the party at all times.
- The properly screened adults must keep a written log of events happening during the
overnight stay, available upon request to the inspection of the parents of minors involved.
USA Table Tennis recognizes that teams have to travel for practice, camps and training/competitions.
USA Table Tennis requires all participants, coaches, teams, volunteers, directors to adhere to the
following rules:
- In all cases, parents have the right to transport their child, and have the player stay at a hotel
of their choosing at their own expense.
- No coach, chaperone or otherwise suitably screen adult shall be at any time permitted to
consume alcohol or drugs whilst performing their duties as an appropriate adult.
- No coach, employee, volunteer, director or chaperone will engage in travel without proper
safety provisions as per state and federal law. This includes the possession of a clean driving
license, proper insurance, a well maintained vehicle and that all adults in the party have
passed a USA Table Tennis national screening check.
- Teams should travel in groups rather than individual cars where possible.
- USA Table Tennis recommends the provision of 1 properly screened adult for every five to
seven minors.
Any USA Table Tennis member found to be in violation of the USA Table Tennis travel policy will be
subject to a disciplinary process which may result in expulsion or suspension from USA Table Tennis.