Ohio Swimming
Level 1
Excellence 300

AB AGE GROUP TRAINING DESCRIPTIONS

All group placement decisions are made by the coaching staff and will be in the best interest of the swimmer and their long term development. Group promotions are done with consideration of the athlete’s age in the younger groups and past history of times, work ethic, and shown desire to improve in the older groups. Friends and carpools may be considered but not the deciding factor.

 

Cuda2 (7- 9 yr) 

  • Practice 3x week;(2 @ 45 min., 1 @ 60 min.)

  • Designed for the beginning instructional swimmer

  • Continued stroke development of freestyle and backstroke

  • Begin stroke development of breaststroke and butterfly

  • Building endurance will be emphasized

  • Learn competition dive and flip turns

  • Teach the importance of positive character traits into group and team

    atmosphere

  • At least (3) YMCA meets are required.

  • Championship Meet Participation- A Champs. AA Champs if the time standards are achieved. 

 

CUDAS (8 and under, must be at least 6 years old)

  • Practices 3x week for 1 hour

  • Focus is intro to competitive swimming, teaching safe starting dive, all 4

    strokes, flip turn, streamline, and body position.

  • Teach the importance of positive character traits into group and team

    atmosphere

  • Goal is to complete 100 freestyle or 100 IM in competition

  • At least (3) YMCA meets are required.

  • Championship Meet Participation- A Champs. AA Champs if the time standards are achieved. 

 

BRONZE (9-10 yr)

  • Practice 4x/week; 2 @ 1 hour, 15 min., 2 @ 1 hour, 30 min.)

  • Focus is stroke technique and becoming more efficient in the 4 strokes

  • Dry land may be introduced at this age

  • Longer training sets will be introduced

  • At least (3) YMCA meets are required.

  • Championship Meet Participation- A Champs. AA Champs, Zones Championships if the time standards are achieved. 

 

SILVER- (11 – 12 yr)

  • Practice 5x/week; 4 @ 1 hour, 30 min., 1 @ 1 hour, 45 min.)

  • A shift to build endurance in training and expand on events entered in swim

    meets

  • Dry land to begin developing balance, core and strength will be part of the

    weekly practices

  • Good workout habits along with IM based training will be stressed and

    expected 

  • At least (3) YMCA meets are required.

  • Championship Meet Participation- A Champs. AA Champs, Zones Championships if the time standards are achieved. 

 

PRE-SENIOR (13– 14 yr)

  • Practice 5-6 x/ week; 4 @ 1 hour, 45 min., 1 @ 1 hour, 30 min.)

  • A prep group to advance to Senior I or II.

  • A focus on longer training, IM training as well as intro to race pace/speed

    work

  • Attendance becomes a factor in swimmers improvement

  • Challenging Dry Land and Core development

  • Summer Long Course training will be expected to advance into Sr II or Sr1

  • At least (3) YMCA meets are required before Junior High Meet participation.

  • Championship Meet Participation- A Champs. AA Champs, Zones Championships or YMCA Nationals if the time standards are achieved.