Club Sport Legal Liability Practices at NIRSA Institutions

Schneider, Robert; Stier, William F.; Kampf, Stephen; Gaskins, Brady P; Haines, Scott

doi:10.1123/rsj.32.1.62

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“…Specifically, slightly more than 25% of the respondents required only a team representative (usually a team captain) to sign a waiver on behalf of all team members. This finding supported previous research that revealed the most frequent method of having participants sign waivers was put on the team representative (Schneider et al, 2008). However, the impact of improperly administering a waiver may be significant especially if the injured party was not aware of what was signed away on their behalf.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

To Use or Not to Use? the Status of Waivers in Intramural Sports

Miller

Young

Martin

2009

Recreational Sports Journal

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Slightly more than 90% of university campus recreational sport administrators indicated that participants had incurred broken bones, fractures, or neck injuries in the past five years due to participation in an intramural sport activity. Greater than 40% of administrators revealed that more than seven participants had been injured to the extent that emergency medical service or hospitalization was needed. Yet, more than half of the respondents did not believe waivers provided protection from legal action. Waivers have often been viewed as being ineffective; however, courts are more frequently upholding them as exculpatory evidence, especially when the waiver is specific to the activity and the potential risks are identified. Thus, a waiver can be effective in both deterring and winning litigation brought against an organization if it is developed and administered in a way that will allow its power to protect the organization.

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confidence: 88%

To Use or Not to Use? the Status of Waivers in Intramural Sports

Miller

Young

Martin

2009

Recreational Sports Journal

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“…[12][13][14][15] This choice between health preservation or sport participation becomes more challenging for club-sport athletes when only 35% of campus recreation directors reported having access to an on-campus certified AT for their club and intramural sport programs. 17 Without consistent access to sports medicine care and injury care recommendations, collegiate club-sport athletes and playercoaches become responsible, in most instances, for their own game-time return-to-play decisions without performing formal SRC assessments. Although interventions have been established in some athletic settings, currently little evidence is available on SRCs in collegiate club-sport athletics and no national standards exist for club-sport SRC management.…”

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Sport-Related Concussion: Knowledge and Reporting Behaviors Among Collegiate Club-Sport Athletes

Beidler

Bretzin

Hanock

et al. 2018

Journal of Athletic Training

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Context: Previous literature on sport-related concussion (SRC) knowledge and reporting behaviors has been limited to high school and National Collegiate Athletic Association collegiate athletes; however, knowledge regarding collegiate club-sport athletes is limited. Objective: To determine the level of SRC knowledge and reporting behaviors among collegiate club-sport athletes and to investigate differences between athletes in traditional and nontraditional sports. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Survey. Patients or Other Participants: A total of 410 athletes (247 males, 163 females) involved in traditional (n = 244) or nontraditional (n = 165) collegiate club sports. Main Outcome Measure(s): The survey consisted of demographics, recognition of SRC signs and symptoms, general SRC knowledge, and reasons why athletes would not report SRCs. The independent variable was sport type. Sport-related concussion signs and symptoms and general knowledge were assessed by the frequency of correct answers to SRC signs and symptoms and general knowledge questions. Sport-related concussion-reporting behavior frequencies were evaluated by asking participants to indicate reasons why they did not or would not report an SRC. Results: The SRC signs and symptoms knowledge score was 23.01 ± 3.19 and general SRC knowledge score was 36.49 ± 4.16 (maximal score = 43). No differences were present for SRC signs and symptoms knowledge (F1,408 = 1.99, P = .16) or general SRC knowledge (F1,408 = 3.28, P = .07) between athletes in traditional and nontraditional collegiate club sports. The most common reason for not reporting an SRC was not recognizing it as a serious injury (n = 165, 40.3%). Chi-square tests demonstrated significant relationships between sport type and 5 reasons for not reporting an SRC. Conclusions: The participants displayed moderate to high levels of knowledge of SRCs but indicated they had failed to or would fail to report SRCs for a variety of reasons. The lack of sports medicine coverage and disconnect between knowledge and injury recognition may make collegiate club-sport athletes more likely to participate while concussed.

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“…Research has found greater social benefits (Sturts & Ross, 2013) and reduced gender stereotypes (Cohen et al, 2014) associated with mixed-gender teams than sex-segregated sports, but has also found continued prejudice toward women by men on the team (Cohen et al, 2014). Unlike intercollegiate athletics, many recreational sport departments do not require an institutional employee to travel with mixed-gender teams for out-of-town activities (Schneider et al, 2008), which may allow an environment susceptible to SV.…”

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Does Athlete Status Explain Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration on College Campuses? A Socio-Ecological Study

McCray

Evans

Lower‐Hoppe

et al. 2023

J Interpers Violence

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In the United States, college students have been identified as a high-risk group for sexual violence (SV) victimization and perpetration, with one in three women and one in four men experiencing SV in their lifetimes. Therefore, studies investigating both perpetration and victimization across genders are pertinent. Additionally, in the context of higher education, athletics is often viewed as a high-risk environment for SV. Despite established relationships between SV and intercollegiate athletics, research on this topic is not conclusive due to the heterogeneous nature of college sports, as well as a dearth of research on recreational athletes. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the differences in SV victimization and perpetration among intercollegiate, recreational, and non-athlete populations. Additional context was provided by exploring variables at multiple levels of the socio-ecological model for violence prevention, as these factors can be important aspects of a person’s development and may inform behavior. Utilizing a sample of 62,996 students from 199 institutions of higher education in the United States, multilevel logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess individual- (i.e., personal demographics), relationship- (i.e., athlete status), and community-level (i.e., institutional characteristics) predictors of SV victimization and perpetration. The results indicated that recreational athletes are the most at-risk group, experiencing and perpetrating SV at higher rates than non-athletes. Results on institutional status and individual characteristics, as well as implications for practitioners and future research is discussed.

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Club Sport Legal Liability Practices at NIRSA Institutions

Cited by 10 publications

References 5 publications

To Use or Not to Use? the Status of Waivers in Intramural Sports

To Use or Not to Use? the Status of Waivers in Intramural Sports

Sport-Related Concussion: Knowledge and Reporting Behaviors Among Collegiate Club-Sport Athletes

Does Athlete Status Explain Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration on College Campuses? A Socio-Ecological Study

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