Active recruiting - the solicitation of an athlete of one Williamson County Swim League (WCSL) member club by another WCSL member club - is contrary to the best interests of Williamson County Swim League.

WCSL member clubs shall be prohibited from directly or indirectly soliciting or encouraging an athlete of another WCSL member club to leave his or her existing member club to join the soliciting club. This anti-recruiting policy prohibits a WCSL member club officer, employee, or coach from directly or indirectly initiating contact with an athlete from another WCSL member club or the athlete's family, with the intent that the athlete joins the soliciting club.

The intent of this anti-recruiting policy is to prevent organized and club-sanctioned efforts to persuade a member of one WCSL member club to leave his or her member club to join the other member club. It is not the intent of this anti-recruiting policy to prevent athletes or parents of athletes of one member club from initiating contact with coaches, officials or athletes of another member club for the purpose of inquiring about joining the other member club. Once such contact is initiated, the restrictions of this anti-recruiting policy shall not apply to any contact with that athlete or family by that member club. Nor is it the intent of this anti-recruiting policy to prevent athletes or parents of athletes from different clubs from discussing any aspect of their respective WCSL member clubs, or incidental contact, such as may occur at a competition when a coach, parent, or athlete of one club offers to congratulate an athlete from another club. However, any such activities which are shown to have been promoted, encouraged or facilitated by a WCSL member club officer, employee or coach with the intent of recruiting shall be in violation of this anti-recruiting policy and subject the member club and/or its coach to the sanctions of this anti-recruiting policy.

Nothing in this anti-recruiting policy shall prevent a WCSL member club from conducting self-promotional activities such as advertising, team tryouts or camps for the purpose of recruiting athletes, as long as there is no direct solicitation of athletes of another member club.

Violation of this anti-recruiting policy may be reported to the Williamson County Swim League Board which, upon review of the complaint, may conduct hearings under the by-laws of Williamson County Swim League.  Any WCSL member club or WCSL member coach found to have violated this anti-recruiting policy may be sanctioned by the Board, up to and including suspension from Williamson County Swim League for up to one year for a first offense and for up to two years for a second or subsequent offense. Suspension of a member coach for a violation of this anti-recruiting policy shall prohibit that coach from being on deck for any WCSL competition during the period of suspension.