UCA Coaches Program

In addition to the classes for cheerleaders, we will be offering classes for advisors and coaches. The UCA 5 Star Coaches Program covers Teambuilding, Leadership Development, Programming, Coaching and Public Relations.

Upon completion of the UCA coaches program or completion of camp meetings, coaches will receive our coaching liability insurance (pending eligibility). See below.

COACHING LIABILITY INSURANCE

Terms and Conditions

LIMITS OF LIABILITY

• $1,000,000 per occurrence · Excess to any other coverage available to insured person HOW TO OBTAIN COVERAGE · $1 million dollar secondary liability insurance is available for coaches and advisors who are employed full-time by a school or school district, are at least 21 years of age, and are the coach or advisor for the school’s cheerleader or dance squads(s). Coverage of credentialed members remains in force through August 31, 2010 subject to the terms and conditions of the master policy renewal.

ELIGIBILITY

• Coaches must be employed full time by a school or school district to function as the coach/advisor for the school’s cheerleading squads(s).
• Coaches must be at least 21 years of age

COVERAGE

• Includes those sums which an insured person becomes legally obligated to pay because of action brought against an insured person for “bodily injury” or “property damage” by a participant for or participating in any school sponsored cheerleading activity.
• AACCA is placing this coverage through an insurance agent licensed by the Tennessee Department of Insurance. Neither AACCA, nor UCA, nor Varsity Spirit Corporation is acting as insurers of this coverage.
• Coverage remains in force until August 31, 2010, and the master policy is renewed by AACCA.

PRIMARY EXLUSIONS

• Ownership, maintenance, or use of any type of automobile, bus, water craft or aircraft
• Property in the care, custody, or control of insured person · Suits brought outside the United States
• Coercion, demotion, evaluation, reassignment, discipline, defamation, harassment, humiliation, discrimination, or other employment-related practices, acts, or omissions
• Claims arising from any employees of an insured person
• Abuse or molestation

This is a summary of coverage andexact terms and conditions will be determined by the insurance policy

UCA PROGRAM INFORMATION

Our staff is looking forward to working with you at camp this summer. Listed below is general information that will benefit you as you prepare for camp.

The UCA Program is designed to train cheerleaders to be their very best. Each class is professionally conducted by top instructors. The overall emphasis of the program is on concentrated learning in a fun and exciting environment.

Report to camp in good condition. Daily stretching exercises, practicing jumps, and aerobic conditioning will help you avoid potential injuries and soreness. Start now to get in shape for camp!

Throughout the camp, your squad will learn a variety of cheers, sidelines, and dances. You will be privately coached by a UCA instructor on a cheer and the Xtreme routine (a dance plus incorporation). After each private coaching session, you will be evaluated on this material. These are low-pressure evaluations designed to help you get your new material game-ready.

On the final day of camp, your squad has the option to participate in our Camp Championships. All evaluations and the Optional Camp Championships will be conducted according to the safety rules and guidelines set forth by the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators (AACCA). You can view these safety guidelines at their website: www.aacca.org. Please be sure to read these guidelines carefully. An instructor will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Daily awards will be presented for achievement, improvement and spirit. At the conclusion of camp, we will present overall awards in several divisions for the entire week.

NOTE: There will be no evaluation of home cheers.

Optional Home Fight Song Evaluation

There will be a Home Fight Song Evaluation in which all interested squads may perform a traditional fight song routine from home. This evaluation is strictly OPTIONAL and will occur on the first night of camp unless there is a conflict with facilities.

Fight songs will be evaluated on content, motion technique, and performance. Up to (2) continuous eight counts of the fight song may contain skills (stunts, tumbling and/or jumps). For a complete list of rules and skill restrictions, go to http://uca.varsity.com/Camps/FAQs. If you plan to participate in the fight song evaluation, we will furnish a CD player for your use. You may also bring music on an IPOD or MP3 player.

NOTE: For All Star Teams, there will be an Optional Home Routine Evaluation on the first night of camp. For the Home Routine Evaluation, partner stunts, pyramids and tumbling ARE permitted. The maximum length of a routine is one minute.

UCA requests that there will be no video taping during actual class instruction; however, you may videotape private coaching, evaluation and other activities during the week.

CRIMINAL OFFENDER RECORD INFORMATION (CORI)
SEX OFFENDER RECORD INFORMATION (SORI)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FORM

Andy Yosinoff’s Cheer and Dance Clinics is registered under the provisions of M.G.L. c. 6, § 172 to receive CORI and under the provisions of M.G.L.c.6. § 178I to receive SORI for the purpose of screening current and otherwise qualified volunteers coaches.

As a volunteer coach, I understand that a CORI/SORI check will be submitted for my personal information to the DCJIS. I hereby acknowledge and provide permission to Andy Yosinoff, a CORI certified administrator and a SORI requester, to submit a CORI/SORI check for my information to the DCJIS. The authorization is valid for one year from the date of my signature. I also understand that this form is a CORI/SORI acknowledgement form and I am entitled to additional consumer reporting disclosure forms under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Andy Yosinoff may conduct subsequent CORI/SORI checks within one year of the date this form was signed by me provided, however, that Andy Yosinoff must first provide me with written notice of this check.

By signing below, I provide my consent to a CORI/SORI check and acknowledge that the information provided on Page 2 of this Acknowledgement Form is true and accurate.

Signature_____________________________________________________
Date __________________________

Coaches and Parents

As camp is approaching, there are a few things that I am required to get from each Coach the first day of camp. I need the following: I need each coach to give me at registration a complete Roster of each camper, with updated physicals and certificate of immunizations in the order of your Roster.

1. Every camper must provide an updated physical (within the last 12-24 months ) and certificate of immunizations. If any of the campers do not have these forms by the first day of camp, they will be unable to participate and will be sent home immediately. I will definitely work with you as I know some of your tryouts are very late. The school nurse should have all physicals and immunizations on file and I am sure you can get copies from them. Coaches will not need to provide me their physicals or certificate of immunization as I just received a new ruling that volunteer coaches do not need to provide them.

2. All permission slips can be brought to registration on the first day of camp. This also includes the participant waiver form, the chaperone waiver form, as well as the college waiver form.

3. All coaches who will stay overnight are considered by the State of Massachusetts as volunteers, MUST have SORI and CORI checks, which will be done by myself, as I have just been certified as a CORI/SORI administrator. I will need everyone’s full name plus the last six digits of their social security number and copy of their driver’s license to be able to do these checks. I have made up two new forms, the CORI Acknowledgement Form and the Personal Information Form. Please fill these out and send them back to me through email. Please try to scan your driver’s license and email it to me at andrewyosinoff@msn.com or fax it to 617-735-9885. I need this information as soon as possible as these checks take time and the Public Health Department need to see them before any of my camps begin. I understand that you have already had these checks done for your other jobs, however we must do our own checks as part of our own requirements.

4. Every parent whose child takes prescriptions, must fill out the attached forms and note which prescription their child is taking, the dose, time, etc. On the first day of camp, our certified athletic trainer will collect all prescriptions in the original bottle and lock them up in a safe area until the camper needs to take their daily prescription.

5. Every employee, including myself, will have the CORI/SORI checks by Varsity Spirits.

I understand that this puts a greater burden on you for collecting all these forms, but unfortunately the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is requiring every camp in the state to go through a licensing process to protect every child.

Please keep me posted if your numbers have changed or if for any reason you are not coming to camp. I have attached the parents’ manual, the prescription medication form, the participant release form, the coaches’ participant release form, the college permission slip, as well as CORI Acknowledgement Form and the Personal Information Form.

I have also attached the state guidelines for 430.090 Employment Background Information, 430.150 Health Records, 430.151 Physical Examinations by Physician and Certificate of Immunizations and 430.152 Required Immunizations. I will also be mailing out all of these forms sometime next week.