Required Skills by Age:

Minimum Swim Requirements & Skills for the 6-8 year old age group:

Swim 50 yards (2 laps) proficiently (without stopping) in freestyle and backstroke

Swim 25 yards (1 lap) proficiently (legally) in breaststroke

Swim 25 yards (1 lap) proficiently (legally) in Butterfly

Freestyle: ability to exhale and inhale, breathe to the side, stroke technique, overall strength and stamina.

Backstroke: head and body line, stroke technique, and grip/feel/strength on their back.

Breaststroke: legal kick; coordination and timing of pull, breath, kick and glide; overall technique

Butterfly: general dolphin motion in kick and arm stroke

Required Meets: MInimum one meet per month required, more encouraged

 

Minimum Swim Requirements & Skills for the 9-10 age group:

Swim 4 X 50 yards (2 laps) proficiently (without stopping), 2 of freestyle & 2 of backstroke 

25 yards of breaststroke and butterfly (Legally)

Freestyle: ability to exhale and inhale, breathe to the side, stroke technique, overall strength & stamina.

Backstroke: head and body line, stroke technique, and grip/feel/strength on their back.

Breaststroke: legal kick; coordination and timing of pull, breath, kick and glide; overall technique

Butterfly: general dolphin kick with good arm stroke technique

Meet Requirements: 1-2 Meets per month required

 

Swimmers ages 11-12 will be evaluated on the following skills:

1) 100 Freestyle (4 Laps) 

*This will be nonstop accompanied by flip turns, streamlines and underwater dolphin kicks.

*Swimmers must understand the concept of breathing to the side when taking a breath.

2) 100 Backstroke (4 Laps)

*This will be nonstop accompanied by flip turns, streamlines and underwater dolphin kicks.

3) 50 Breaststroke (2 Laps)

*This will be nonstop accompanied by underwater pullouts. 

*Swimmers must have a legal breaststroke kick

4) 50 Butterfly (2 Laps)

*This will be nonstop accompanied by streamlines and underwater dolphin kicks

*Swimmers must have a legal stroke 

5) 100 IM (4 Laps)

*This will be nonstop accompanied by streamlines and correct turns.

6) Swimmers will swim 3 x 50 Freestyle @ 1:30 for a time.

Swimmers will be asked to do one start off the block.

Meet Participation: 1-2 Meets per month required

 

Swimmers ages 13-14 will be evaluated on the following skills:

Experience: Some competitive swimming experience

Strokes: Must be able to swim all 4 strokes legally

Minimum ability to complete:

 100FR @ faster than 1:35

 100BK @ faster than 1:40

 100BR @ faster than 1:50

 50FL @ faster than 0:50

 100 IM @ faster than 1:50

USA Single Age Motivational Times: Starting to achieve some B Min times

Commitment: Should enjoy swimming & have a desire to learn while growing within the sport

Practices: Minimum 80% of scheduled practices (typically 4 practices offered per week) 

Meet Participation: 1-2 meets per month required