| 9-12 year olds (Purple Group) Monday-Thursday 5:00pm-6:00pm: This group is designed to teach swimmers how to manage a competitive swim team practice. Much of practice will focus on developing efficient technique and proper starts, turns, and finishes for all four competitive strokes. Practice sets, intervals, pacing terminology will be introduced. Swimmers in this group should be able to perform 50s of freestyle and backstroke in a minute or less. Butterfly and Breaststroke understanding is preferred, but not mandatory. Swimmers in this group should plan on swimming 1000-1500 yards each practice. |