TRC takes safety seriously. The coaches’ primary concern is to make sure that everyone is safe while at practice, traveling, or at an event.
TRC athletes are responsible for insuring the safety of themselves and others through the following actions:
TRC coaches use their best efforts to prevent injuries by teaching proper techniques and ensuring appropriate safety precautions. Any injuries or accidents should be immediately reported to a coach.
All TRC Board Members and almost all adults who interact with TRC youth are required to participate in background screening.
Triangle Rowing covers the cost associated with background screening and encourages ALL volunteers who interact with athletes to participate in the background screening process.
Link for Background Screening
Federal law gives the nonprofit U.S. Center for SafeSport an important mandate: To end sexual, physical, and emotional abuse and misconduct in amateur sports.
TRC encourages ALL adults/volunteers to complete SafeSport training and become certified.
Certain TRC volunteers must complete and maintain SafeSport certification before being allowed to perform their volunteer duties.
Earning certification typically takes three hours, which can be accomplished across multiple sessions.
Once certified, maintaining certification takes under an hour per year.
The following provides detailed instructions for creating a USRowing adult Supporter account and taking SafeSport certification training.
NOTE: Even if you completed SafeSport certification in the past, you need to follow the instructions in the SafeSport Training and create a USRowing Supporter account. Your prior SafeSport training should be associated with your new USRowing account (assuming the name and birthdate are the same). This will allow TRC to efficiently track required volunteer training compliance.
If you created a USRowing account in the past and completed the SafeSport certification, you may need to log into your USRowing account and take refresher training if that prior training has expired (or expires during the upcoming season),
Create your account on the USRowing website
CAUTION! Do NOT log in to the USRowing site using the account associated with your rower/athlete. Select Join under Individuals and create a new account specifically for you (assuming you don't already have your own, separate adult USRowing account)
NOTE: If you do not have the TRC Club Code that allows you to link to Triangle Rowing Club, send an email to the Safety Coordinator and it will be provided.
Contact the TRC Safety Coordinator at safety@trianglerowing.org