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Description
Summer recreation swim team allows your child to learn and improve stroke technique, increase fitness, and socialize in a positive team as setting. Join the Casa Grande Geckos rec swim team and participate in 45 min to 1-hour practices 4 days a week. The Geckos are part of the East Valley Recreation Swim League, which provide participants the option to compete in swim meets. Participants will receive a t-shirt, swim cap, and a swim team letter with meet information, once the program starts. Children ages 6 - 17 years old who are proficient in the four basic strokes are eligible to participate on this recreational swim team.
Prerequisite: Minimum ability to complete all lead up skills to Stroke School Manta Ray. (Swim freestyle 25 yards; swim backstroke 25 yards; swim 15 yards butterfly; swim 25 yards breaststroke; perform freestyle and backstroke flip turns and butterfly and breaststroke open turns.)
Focus: race starts, flip turns, stroke improvement, endurance, introduction to competitive swimming, lifetime water fitness.
Age Category
Youth
Location
Palm Island Family Aquatic Center
Instructor
Dalia Blunt
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