The parent’s job is to provide:

Support + Stability + Encouragement + Accountability

Parents should create an environment where the rider can learn, compete, fail, improve, and enjoy the sport.

Parents SHOULD:

• Encourage effort.
• Encourage preparation.
• Help the rider establish routines.
• Ask questions.
• Listen.
• Support healthy nutrition and hydration.
• Help maintain equipment.
• Ensure required safety equipment is available.
• Help the rider arrive on time.
• Support the coach’s instructions.
• Celebrate improvement.
• Model good sportsmanship.
• Encourage respect for competitors and officials.

Parents SHOULD NOT:

• Coach from the fence.
• Yell technical instructions during a race.
• Criticize the rider immediately after a mistake.
• Blame officials.
• Argue with other parents.
• Confront competitors.
• Pressure a child to race while injured or unwell.
• Make winning more important than safety.
• Compare their child negatively to teammates.
• Use another rider’s performance to shame their child.