If your club is interested in hosting any future junior tournament events, your club is required to be a USAB Member Club.

Click HERE to sign up for 2023-2024 USAB Member Club status. The USAB Member Club status will last until May 1, 2024. 

Failure to report accurate and up-to-date information may result in application denial.

The following must be included in the Tournament Prospectus:

To ensure the safety of its community, USAB requires safe sport training and background checks for the following individuals:

• all USAB staff,
• individuals USAB formally authorizes, approves, or appoints to a position of authority over, and to have frequent contact with athletes (including, all athlete chaperones), and
• any non-athlete individual that USAB authorizes to train, stay or work at an Olympic Training Center (collectively, the “SafeSport Training Pool” or “SSTP”), and
• all adult athletes who have regular contact with and/or authority over minor athletes are required to abide by the policy and training requirements policies set forth in the USAB's Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policy regardless of the age of the minor athletes with whom they interact.
• volunteers with authority over minors
• board of directors

SSTP List

• USAB Staff
• Coaches
• Adult Athletes
• Technical Officials (Line Judges, Scorekeepers, and Umpires)
• Team Officials
• Tournament Officials (Tournament Directors, Deputy Tournament Director)
• Club Staff (Owners and Administrators)
• Volunteers with authority over minors
• Board of Directors

To further extend the safety of our minor athletes, USAB highly encourages all minor athletes to complete SafeSport Education prior to competition.

Here are the steps on how to access the courses:

• Register for an account on AthleteSafety.org.
  • Parents with children under 13 will need to register on behalf of their child. All parents are recommended to register for their child.
• For Membership, please use “Not Affiliated”.
• Confirm your account and sign in.
• Under the Training Page, select the appropriate courses for your athlete(s).
  • Grades 3-5 (15 min)
  • Middle School (15 min)
  • High School (20 min)
• Add to cart and check out.
• Once you’ve checked out, you will be able to access the free training and provide consent for your child to complete the training with you.
• Once the course is completed, you will be able to issue a certificate for your child.
• Download the certificate and send it to ContactUs@usabadminton.org.

For Adult Individuals (Parents Included)

All USAB covered individuals who have regular contact and/or authority over any minor athletes are required to complete SafeSport Education. For individuals who are volunteering at a junior sanctioned tournament, please ensure that you have a current USAB membership, completed a background check, and completed SafeSport training.

This can be accessed and completed directly through SafeSport, upon completion please send USAB the SafeSport Certificates at ContactUs@usabadminton.org.

 

Note: Junior Nationals (JN) is managed by USA Badminton

In consideration of the sanctioning by USA Badminton of the tournament for which the undersigned (the “Applicant”) is requesting sanction, the Applicant acknowledges, appreciates, and agrees that:

1. Participation in badminton involves a risk of bodily injury, including paralysis, dismemberment, disability, and death, and while particular rules of the sport, equipment, and discipline may reduce this risk, this risk of injury does exist, as well as the risk of damage to or loss of property. 

2. The Applicant agrees to comply with the customary terms and conditions for participation in events sanctioned by USA Badminton in which the Applicant is the host. 

3. The Applicant, for itself, and on behalf of its sponsors, or the respective officers, directors, volunteers, staff, sponsors and/or agents of any of them, hereby releases, holds harmless and promises not to sue USA Badminton, the committee, their respective sponsors, or the respective officers, directors, volunteers, staff, sponsors and/or agents of any of them (collectively, the “releasees”) with respect to any and all injury and loss arising from participation of any invitee of the Applicant, whether caused by the negligence of the releasees, the condition of the premises or otherwise, except that which is the result of gross negligence or wanton misconduct, to the fullest extent permitted by law.  

4. The Applicant agrees to be bound by the rules and regulations of the Badminton World Federation and those of USA Badminton applicable to the Applicant. 

5. The Applicant agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the releasees from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, liabilities, taxes, deficiencies, obligations or out-of-pocket costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and costs and expenses of investigation, resulting from and/or arising out of and/or by virtue of any and all injury and loss arising from acts or omissions of the Applicant or its invitees in events sanctioned by USA Badminton in which the Applicant is the host.

6. The Applicant hereby grants to USA Badminton, its licensees and contractors, including photographers, all right, title and interest in and to any and all photographic images and video or audio recordings of whatever kind or type in any medium, made by or for USA Badminton during events sanctioned by USA Badminton in which the Applicant is the host, including the right to film or videotape the Applicant and its invitees during matches, narratives or personal interviews, or the right to comment thereon for any and all commercial, news or other purposes, together with the right to transfer or grant such rights to others, and to all royalties, proceeds and/or other benefits derived from such photographs and recordings, all without remuneration or compensation to the Applicant whatsoever.  The Applicant hereby grants to USA Badminton a royalty free, fully paid up, perpetual, transferable, worldwide non exclusive license (with the right to sublicense) to use, display, publicly perform or otherwise distribute the Applicant’s names, logos, tradenames or trademarks in connection with any such photographic images and video or audio recordings or in connection with events sanctioned by USA Badminton in which the Applicant is the host.

7. The Applicant agrees to abide by all safety mandates (Fire Code and Building Code) to ensure the safety of all participants and those within the vicinity of the event. Failure to do so will result in voided event insurance and sanctioning from USAB and or potential event cancellation. 

8. The Applicant agrees and understands that USAB reserves the right to deny sanctions to any clubs at any time.

9. The Applicant understands the SafeSport reporting mechanisms:

To report all concerns involving alleged physical misconduct, emotional misconduct, sexual misconduct or violations of the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) to the US Center for SafeSport, click here: USCENTERFORSAFESPORT.ORG/ REPORT-A-CONCERN

To report all concerns involving alleged physical misconduct, emotional misconduct, sexual misconduct or violations of the Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies (MAAPP) to USA Badminton, email Rachel.Bui@usabadminton.org

Once you submit your application, we will contact you. 

Thank you!

USA Badminton

ContactUs@usabadminton.org

 

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