OPEN GYM POLICY

Open gyms that are not sanctioned by the region are not insured by the region. A club running an unsanctioned open gym is doing so as a private entity, not as a club within KRVA. As a club, if you choose to run an unsanctioned open gym, any liability for injury, misconduct, facility damage or other issues resides with you personally. As a participant, you take on ths same risk if you attend a non-sanctioned open gym. For clubs and participants, it is important to know that your membership in KRVA will not provide you any protection for non-sanctioned open gyms.

REQUEST FROM KRVA TO CLUBS:
When advertising your open gyms, we expect that you do not mislead people into thinking your event is sanctioned by the region if it is not. Saying that KRVA club XYZ is running an open gyms leads people to believe that you are doing so as a region entity (which you can only do if you sanction it). If you are not, you should be disclosing that so as not to mislead people by using your club name to run a non-sanctioned event.

Although we cannot stop you from purchasing private insurance and running non-sanctioned events under another name (or just running uninsured events), it is the position of the region that it is in the best interest of the athletes for them to be provided with USAV insurance and the protection of playing only with registered members / being coached only by screened adults...therefore we believe that sanctioning an open gym is the best way to go.

Finally, please note that our Junior Operating Code has always said that open tryouts MUST be sanctioned by the region. You do not have the choice to run an unsanctioned tryouts for a KRVA team.

KRVA Juniors Committee