The Five Groups for Falcons are described as follows:
Group 1
This is our pre-swim team group for the beginning competitive swimmer who can swim all four competitive strokes
at 25 yards each. Pre-Team is designed to build endurance and refine stroke technique to get your
swimmer ready for the swim team.
Recommended Equipment
Swim Fins, Kickboard, Goggles, Cap, and Racing Suit
Group 2
This is our developmental group for the beginning competitive swimmer who can swim 100 yards of
freestyle, 50 yards of breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly, and has basic knowledge of a start and flipturn.
A great deal of individualized instruction occurs in the short practices.
Group Goals: Building the foundation of solid technique, working on circle swimming, bilateral breathing,
body awareness, general stroke technique, streamlining, and introductions to starts and turns.
Recommended Equipment
Swim Fins, Kickboard, Goggles, Cap, and Racing Suit
This is our developmental group for the beginning competitive swimmer who can swim 100 yards of
freestyle, 50 yards of breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly, and has basic knowledge of a start and flipturn.
A great deal of individualized instruction occurs in the short practices.
Group Goals: Building the foundation of solid technique, working on circle swimming, bilateral breathing,
body awareness, general stroke technique, streamlining, and introductions to starts and turns.
Recommended Equipment
Swim Fins, Kickboard, Goggles, Cap, and Racing Suit
Group 3
Swimmers should be able to swim 300 freestyle, and 100 IM (Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke,
Freestyle. They should also have mastered the basic stroke drills from Group 1 and have a good
knowledge of how to streamline and read a pace clock, and an understanding of send-offs.
Group goals include: Underwater fly kicking off walls, breaststroke pull out, and building on group 1 goals.
Swimmers should be able to swim 300 freestyle, and 100 IM (Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke,
Freestyle. They should also have mastered the basic stroke drills from Group 1 and have a good
knowledge of how to streamline and read a pace clock, and an understanding of send-offs.
Group goals include: Underwater fly kicking off walls, breaststroke pull out, and building on group 1 goals.
Group 4
The fourth level in our program requires a little more stamina. These swimmers should be able to swim a
500 free, 200 IM, and all of these should be nonstop and with a fair amount of confidence. Refining
technique and learning more advanced drills, refining skills on starts and turns, learning how to read a
heat sheet, getting to the block on their own, basic goal setting, performing longer aerobic sets such as 8
x 100 free on 2:00 and 6 x 100 IM on 2:30, and basic mental skills.
The fourth level in our program requires a little more stamina. These swimmers should be able to swim a
500 free, 200 IM, and all of these should be nonstop and with a fair amount of confidence. Refining
technique and learning more advanced drills, refining skills on starts and turns, learning how to read a
heat sheet, getting to the block on their own, basic goal setting, performing longer aerobic sets such as 8
x 100 free on 2:00 and 6 x 100 IM on 2:30, and basic mental skills.
Group 5
This is an advanced group that introduces more endurance and competitive opportunities through
USAS swimming.
Recommended Equipment
Swim Fins, Kickboard, Goggles, Cap, and Racing Suit, Pull Buoy, Equipment bag, and snorkel
This is an advanced group that introduces more endurance and competitive opportunities through
USAS swimming.
Recommended Equipment
Swim Fins, Kickboard, Goggles, Cap, and Racing Suit, Pull Buoy, Equipment bag, and snorkel
