The La Grande Swim Club offers training and practice groups for swimmers of all ages and ability levels. It is the goal of the La Grande Swim Club to offer age specific training for all of our athletes geared towards challenging each individual and developing each individual to the best of THEIR abilities.
Please see "How to Join LGSC" tab for instructions on joining the club.
GREEN The Green group is for swimmers who have completed swim lessons and are able to swim the full length of the pool (25 yards) with front crawl stroke. Swimmers will continue to build upon their current skills, and focus on the basics of the four competitive strokes:freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly as well as being introduced to race starts and turns. BRONZE The Bronze group continues to focus on the basic skills of the four main strokes, race starts, and turns building endurance in the water by having longer practice sessions. More technical skills are also introduced. SILVER The Silver group have the basic skills mastered, with more focus on technical skills and endurance. Speed control and drill work are also introduced. Minimum age 9 years. GOLD The Gold group have mastered basic and most technical skills, and continue to further increase their endurance and training intensity. PLATINUM
The Platinum group are the most advanced group, continuing to build their technique, endurance and training intensity. Minimum age 13 years.
Workout Days/Times: This group practices two hours per day, five days per week. (10 hours/week), currently Mon-Fri from 4-6pm. Please see the "Practice Schedule" tab for summer times for each group. |