SWIM OMAHA GROUP GUIDELINES
Final group determinations are at the discretion of the coaching staff.
Novice: Meets 2 nights per week for 45 minutes each practice.
Ages 5-10 To join the Novice group, swimmers must be able to complete 1 length of a 25 yard pool, with no stops and no assistance. Stroke technique is not necessary to enter this level.
Goals For Novice
- Legal freestyle
- Legal backstroke
- Breaststroke and Butterfly should each be at least 50% legal
- Social and Emotional maturity commensurate with the next level.
- Must understand and utilize lane etiquette and team spirit
- Must be able to swim circles
- Must be able to go 5 seconds apart
- Must be able to pass or be passed in the lane with good manners
- Must have beginning knowledge about reading a pace clock
- Must be able to listen, follow directions
- Must be able to work with peers, take turns, be helpful.
Bronze: Meets 3 nights per week for 1 hour each practice.
Ages 6-12
Goals for Bronze Group:
- Increased yardage, intensity
- Continued stroke development.
- Introduction to competitions.
- Legal freestyle and flip turn
- Legal backstroke and flip turn
- Breaststroke and Butterfly should be 75% legal
- Must have greater consistency and skill at lane etiquette and team spirit
- Must be able to complete 10 x 50’s K with fins on the 1:00
- Must be able to complete 10 X 50’s S with fins on the 1:00
- Must be able to dive off the block for a start.
- Must be able to do a backstroke start.
- Social and Emotional maturity commensurate with the next level.
Silver: We offer 8-9 practices per week and ask kids to make at least 3 practices each week. Silver practices are 90 minutes each. Age 8-14
Goals for Silver Group:
All swimmers in this group MUST have their own kickboard, fins and water bottle. These items can be ordered from the Swim Omaha website.
- All 4 legal strokes and appropriate turns
- Learn greater use of the pace clock and all the various intervals used during sets.
- Learn and demonstrate higher levels of lane etiquette/manners and cooperation.
- Must be able to complete a 200 yard IM in 3:20.00 or less.
- Must be able to complete a 200 Free in 3:00.00 or less.
- Must be able to complete 5 X 100 IM on a 2:00 interval.
- Must be able to complete 5 X 100 Free on a 1:45.00 interval.
- Must demonstrate coachability.
- Must demonstrate an understanding of the TEAM picture.
- Encouraged participate in 1 meet per month. Must do meets before moving up to gold.
- Social and Emotional maturity commensurate with the next level.
- Swimmers are strongly encouraged to maintain the 3 practices per week or more.
- All swimmers in this group are expected to participate in swim meets that SWIM OMAHA has scheduled and be in team apparel.
Gold: Gold group meets 5-6 times each week for 2 hours each practice. Kids are encouraged to make 4-5 practices week in this level. Age 10-14
Required Equipment: Training fins; kickboard; Finis Snorkel, Agility Hand Paddles, water bottle; practice suit; practice goggles.
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- Swimmers demonstrate endurance, proficiency, commitment, leadership and meet performance exceeding Silver Group level.
- Swimmers must pass Silver to Gold test set standards.
- Higher level competition, MUST do 1 meet per month.
- More intense training and yardage
- More detail work on starts, turns, and stroke mechanics
- Dry land exercise, beginning resistance training
- Swimmers should be willing to learn about themselves and their potential capabilities by working towards achieving the challenges set before them.
- They should have the desire to improve their swimming. Swimmers should encourage themselves and others to work hard, listen carefully to instructions, and demonstrate a positive attitude about swimming. The concepts of training and race preparation are introduced in this group.
Goals for Gold 2:
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- Be the most skilled and experienced age group swimmers
- Places an emphasis on serious training for competition.
- Strive to rank among the top swimmers in the LSC in their age groups.
- Gold 2 Group is a "bridge" between Gold 1 and Senior group.
- Gold 2 swimmers practice at least four times (out of six available).
- Skill development
- Physical conditioning
- Mental training and race preparation concepts.
- Participate in LSC championship meet competition.
- Practice sessions are 2 hours, five to six times weekly. 80% practice attendance is expected.
- Swimmers must have minimum of 3 “A” times in the 11-12 age group and 3 events
- Swimmers should have 450 or higher in the power points.
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