Tournament Participation Release and Waiver
This release covers your player's participation in one specific tournament as a member of their team — the tournament named on the signing card — including warm-ups, matches, breaks between matches, and team activities at the event.
1. Acknowledgment of risk
Competitive tournament soccer involves extended physical exertion — often multiple matches in a day, in variable weather, on unfamiliar fields, against unfamiliar opponents. The inherent risks cannot be eliminated even with proper supervision, officiating, and equipment, and include muscle and joint injuries, fractures, concussion and other head injuries, heat-related illness, contact injuries, and, in rare cases, catastrophic injury. Travel to and from the event carries its own ordinary risks.
2. Player readiness and conduct
- You affirm your player is physically fit to compete in tournament play, except as you have disclosed in writing to the coach.
- You will ensure your player arrives rested, hydrated, and equipped (appropriate footwear, shin guards, water).
- The tournament operates under its own rules and codes of conduct; the club may withdraw a player for serious misconduct without refund of tournament fees.
3. Assumption of risk and release
Knowing these risks, you voluntarily permit your player to participate and assume, on your own behalf and your player's behalf, all risks of injury or loss arising from participation. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you release the club, its officers, employees, contractors, coaches, and team volunteers from claims arising out of the player's participation, including claims based on ordinary negligence. This release does NOT extend to gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct. The tournament organizer and venue may require their own separate waivers, which are between you and those parties.
4. Travel
Unless the club states otherwise in writing, transportation to and from the tournament is arranged and supervised by families, not by the club.
5. Medical authorization
If your player is injured or becomes ill during the tournament and you cannot be reached promptly, you authorize the coach or team staff to secure emergency medical treatment, including transport to a medical facility, at your expense. The signing card asks for your emergency contact at the event; tell the coach directly about any allergies, medications, or conditions treating staff should know.