Club Sports Mission
The Club Sports program at St. Olaf College is designed to provide opportunities for students to participate in a variety of sports and recreational activities that are not a part of the program of NCAA intercollegiate sports administered by the St. Olaf Athletics Department.
A Club Sport is student initiated and organized by members of the St. Olaf community who share an interest in a specific sports activity. The emphasis of the club can be recreational, instructional or competitive. Each club structure is created by students who work closely with the Coordinator of Intramurals and Club Sports. Student members take on leadership and decision making rules for basic activities. Students are responsible for each club?s activities and organization. The Coordinator of Intramurals and Club Sports administers the program overseeing recognition, budget, scheduling, discipline, fundraising, etc.
Club officers are responsible for seeing to it that practices and contests are conducted in a manner that assures the safety of participants. Grounds and courts should be inspected to assure that there are no hazards to participants. It is the club?s responsibility to see to it that any protective equipment is in proper condition. The club officers must assure that participants are prepared to play, accounting for injury and illness as well as appropriate conditioning and training. Outdoors, club officers must pay attention to weather conditions and how they affect the field of play, including potential dangers of lightning and or severe weather. If any person or condition puts members of your club at unnecessary risk of injury, the practice or contest should be terminated until the conditions are eliminated.
At all practices and games club officers are encouraged to have insurance information on hand for all participants. This could expedite the providing of emergency care as quickly as possible if needed.
