About This Activity
Description
Students in this stage will learn and refine their techniques on all major competitive strokes. Emphasis on water safety will continue through treading water and resting strokes. Students will also learn about competitive swimming, and discover how to incorporate swimming into a healthy lifestyle. Focus will also be on developing stamina and endurance, as well as skills related to competitive swimming such as flip turns.
To observe proper social distancing, our standard class size has been lowered and the certified swim instructor will be teaching from the pool deck.
Please note that children must be able to complete all prerequisites in order to qualify for this class, seen below.
Prerequisites:
Participants must be able to swim any stroke or combination of strokes for 25 yards, front crawl with rotary breathing for 15 yards, swim back crawl for 15 yards, and butterfly kick for 15 yards. They must also be able to perform a seated dive, resting stroke for 15 yards, and tread water for 1 minute using scissor and whip kicks.
What Do I Need:
Participants must wear a bathing suit and bring a towel. Goggles and a kickboard are recommended but not required. Please note that sharing any items amongst participants will not be permitted.
For more information, please call our branch at 727-787-9622.
Age Category
Youth/Teens
Location
Greater Palm Harbor Family Pool at Greater Palm Harbor YMCA Branch
Instructor
YMCA Staff & Volunteers
John Gibson
Katie Szymanski
Jessica Fisher
George Woldseth
Lisa Feldt
Tara Galante
Kristin Ficco
Ava Callaway
Kerry Huot
Jonathan Rivera
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