Team Boston Academy
SAFETY GUIDELINES
06/1/2020
Player, Coach and Family Member Safety and Sanitation –
Action Required Regarding 2020 Flu/Coronavirus
Safety Measures for TBA opening, including indoor and
outdoor practices, clinics, or lessons
Outdoors: Spectators must be limited to ensure social distancing on the sidelines or other observation areas. Spectators of youth sports should be limited to one adult chaperone per athlete.
Indoors: Limited spectators will be allowed in the building. The restrooms at Team Boston Academy will be open to players and coaches.
Please follow directional Arrows placed throughout the facility to ensure one way movement. X’s have been placed on the floor to ensure social distancing for players who are waiting to hit, field or throw.
All players will need their own helmet, bat, batting glove, fielder’s glove, water bottle, athletic supporter, hand sanitizer, mask, sunblock and sunglasses.
TBA staff, coaches and parents are to clean and disinfect all equipment at the end of practices or games using a product from the list of disinfectants meeting EPA criteria for use against the novel coronavirus.
TBA staff will also periodically clean and disinfect the facility. Athletes should arrive dressed for practice and leave immediately after practice: no recreational play or loitering is allowed.
Teams completing practice should not stay to watch other practices before or after their practice session. To participate or attend, TBA will ensure that volunteers, coaches and staff must show no signs or symptoms of COVID-19 for 14 days.
Each player should wear proper face covering while not in the field of play or up at the plate.
Participants may remove face coverings while participating in practice and drills, provided they are able to maintain at least 6 feet of distance from all other person’s present.
Face coverings should otherwise be worn by coaches, volunteers, other staff, officials, youth chaperones, and spectators in accordance with MA guidelines.
No shared food or drink may be provided during any activities for participants or spectators (e.g., team snacks).
No use of public water bubblers, fountains or bottle fillers if present on site. Participants and spectators should only drink from their own containers.
The use of Sunflower seeds is not permitted inside the facility or during outdoor practices and games.
Participants and coaches must achieve proper hand hygiene at the beginning and end of all activities, either through hand washing with soap and water or by using an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Athletes should be discouraged from high fives, fist bumps or other social contact during practice or games. Players and Coaches should utilize the hand sanitizing wipes at TBA after each drill.
Coaches will also be supplied with alcohol based hand sanitizer for outdoor practices/games. Coaches are also provided disinfectant spray bottles for each team allowing equipment, seats and other surfaces to be sprayed as needed.
All seating outside and inside of the dugout will be organized in order to maintain social distancing for the players.
Restrooms will be available for handwashing and all who visit the facility are encouraged to wash their hands frequently.
Coaches must be responsible for maintaining social distance among players, coaches,staff, and spectators.
Youth chaperones should be encouraged to help their own child maintain distance before and after practice. Youth chaperones must wear face coverings or social distance with at least 6 feet of space.
Parents should take the player’s temperature before every practice or game, and ensure that no player or spectator attends an event if he/she is sick.
Parents and players are asked to review the Health and Wellness Screening before each Team Boston event. Any player with a temperature of 100.4 or higher, or exhibiting any other COVID-19 symptoms, or who cannot meet the standards of the Health and Wellness Screening should refrain from attending on that day.
You can find the current list of symptoms for COVID-19 here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/index.html
If any individual develops symptoms of COVID-19 during the activity, they should promptly inform organizers and must be removed from the activity, avoid interacting with others and instructed to return home.
Participants, organizers, spectators, volunteers and facility employees in high risk categories should not participate or attend organized sport activities. List of high-risk categories available here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/index.html
According to the MA guidelines for Phase II, all programs must separate participants into groups of no more than 10, including coaches and staff.
Larger playing areas and surfaces, such as athletic fields, may be used by more than one group of 10 at one time, provided that adequate social distance and group separation can be maintained.
To ensure separation, groups at Team Boston Academy must be spaced at least 20 feet apart while sharing cages.
For safety related concerns please contact:
Cary McConnell cmcconnell@suffolk.edu
Jeff Mejia jmejia@necc.mass.edu