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

2 X 25 Freestyle kick

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 

50 yards of breaststroke and butterfly (Legally)

2 X 25 Freestyle kick

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

 

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