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NYS Guidelines and Ace Gymnastics

Dear Ace Families,

As has been widely publicized, Governor Cuomo has announced that effective Wednesday May 19th, the state of New York will be adopting the CDC guidelines and lifting the mask mandate for fully vaccinated individuals. However, individual businesses will be permitted to make their own decisions regarding their mask policy.

Here at Ace Gymnastics we consider ourselves a “Gymnastics School”. Currently at this time schools are still currently mandated to wear masks in New York, regardless if you are a student, teacher/adult, and/or fully vaccinated. At this time, we will be keeping our current mask policies the same and requiring masks be worn by all until the summer schedule starts beginning July 5th. Review our current policies below.

Please note that this was not a decision that I have taken lightly. The majority of our students are under the age of 16, and since vaccines have just been made available to children aged 12-16 the earliest date that any of those students would be considered fully vaccinated is June 17th, which is only a week and a half prior to the end of our current session. We understand that this vaccine is a personal choice, and we respect that as well. We would just like to give the families that have chosen to vaccinate the time to have their children (and selves) fully vaccinated before removing the masks from our facility. I have always, and will continue to do everything in my power to keep my athletes safe and their best interest at heart.

For the summer we will be updating most, if not all of our current Covid-19 procedures and guidelines. These policies will be sent out in the middle/end of June.

I sincerely thank you for your respect and cooperation during this time.

Sincerely,

Alec Chatterton

COVID-19 POLICES AND PROCEDURES

For anyone entering the building and athletes attending classes:

Temperatures will be taken at the door for every individual that enters the building. This includes staff, parents and athletes. We understand temperatures can fluctuate, however, per USA Gymnastics recommendation, anyone with a 100-degree Fahrenheit temperature or above will not be permitted.
All athletes, parents and staff must enter the building with a mask. Athletes will be required to sanitize their hands and feet upon entering the building.
Staff, Students and non-participants will be required to wear masks AT ALL TIMES while inside the building.
If possible, we ask that all athletes arrive to the gym already dressed for class. We will only be allowing one person in the bathrooms at a time. (We understand it has been a popular practice in the past for the girls to go into the bathroom in groups to change, as I’m sure we can all agree, this is no longer possible). The Pop-Up Pods will also be set up and available where our play area once was.
The water fountain will be closed for drinking. However, our touchless, motion sensor water bottle filling station that is attached to the water fountain is still available. We highly recommend that each athlete brings their own filled water bottle to practice and uses the water bottle filling station to refill their bottles as necessary.
We will no longer have chalk buckets for athlete use. (You will still see chalk buckets around. These chalk buckets are for coaches to use to chalk up the bars as needed).
Strict attendance will be taken; it is very important that we have these records for contact tracing purposes.
If an individual at Ace does contract Covid-19 we will contact trace and alert parents as well as anyone who was in direct contact with the positive individual to be tested. We will close the gym for cleaning and sanitizing as well until the coaches have been tested and cleared of the virus. Anyone who was in direct contact must also be tested and provide documentation that they have been tested and cleared prior to re-admittance.
Most gyms surfaces have markers indicating what is 6ft apart. These markers will be used for athletes to stand on when they are not actively using the equipment to assist in enforcing social distancing.
All preschool classes now require parent participation to help enforce social distancing regulations. NOTE: Summer Jumping Jack classes are not parent participation.
One Parent per participating athlete are allowed in the gym at a time due to capacity restrictions. You are more than welcome to leave your athlete at Ace during their class, once the class is over the students will be escorted out to the parking lot by a staff member to ensure the athletes are returned safely.
We have reduced the number of chairs in all viewing areas and have marked the floors where seating is provided, indicating 6-foot distances. We ask that spectators do not move the chairs to another location and stay seated where they are. If you wish to turn them around, that is fine but please keep them as close to where they are supposed to be as possible. We understand that it is not always easy to get a great view on our closed-circuit televisions. Please do not gather around the televisions for a better look. We also ask to please share the limited seating in the main gym.
12 hand sanitizing stations have been installed throughout the gym so coaches and athletes are able to sanitize after spotting, or whenever they feel necessary. These sanitizing stations are for everyone, but are primarily for coaches to be able to sanitize immediately after spotting an athlete.
Mats and equipment that have been used during the event rotation will be sanitized before the next group rotates to that event. This excludes floor/tumble trak/vault runway/carpet foam areas. These areas will be sanitized nightly.
We understand the risks of Covid-19. Social distance is the key in stopping the spread. However, in order to keep athletes safe, we must have the ability to spot when necessary. If you wish for your child to participate at Ace Gymnastics, you will have to agree that spotting your child is allowed when needed. The coaches will take extra steps in order to socially distance whenever possible and to work on more hands-off lead ups and drills. However, in terms of athlete safety sometimes spotting is necessary.
The guidelines above are what is currently in line with the CDC and USA Gymnastics. As new guidelines are released, we will update our operating procedures to align with those.