Age Group Goals

The Dry Diggins Dolphin coaches have developed age group goals as a means to keep our focus on this season and to ensure we are striving to a common goal; a positive swim experience for every member of our team. With both swimmers and coaches committed to our team, an exciting and fun season is guaranteed.

6-under - First half of season

• Learn the ways of practice
• Become comfortable with coaching staff
• Teach sportsmanship
• Swim entire 25 yards without stopping
• Learn streamline
• Focus on freestyle, backstroke, and starts
• Have FUN!!!!!

By end of season

• Work on strong kicking
• Improve starts with streamline
• Improve strength of kick
• Introduce all strokes
• Understand Sportsmanship
• Have fun racing!

7/8’s - First half of season

• Swimmers learn team rules
• Become comfortable with coaching staff
• Swimmers listen while coach is talking
• Teach sportsmanship
• Work on legality of all strokes
• Focus on strength of kick
• Introduce flip turns
• Work on streamline in all strokes

By end of season

• Focus on technique for all strokes
• Flip turns always used
• Improved starts and finishes
• Understand how to use the pace clock
• Streamline off every wall
• Have fun competing for the TEAM

9/10’s - First half of season

• Swimmers get to know coaches and team rules
• Technique drills for all strokes introduced
• Focus on strong kicking
• Improve starts and turns
• Streamline in all strokes and off all walls
• Focus on legal IM
• Learn the pace clock
• Improved sportsmanship
• Have fun at practices!!!
• Set personal swimming goals

By end of season

• Teach TEAM support
• Legal and strong 100 IM
• Focus on stroke proficiency
• Able to swim intervals
• Perfect starts, turns, and hard finishes
• Know their personal times for each event
• Learn competitive fun!!

11/12’s - First half of season

• Review team rules
• Understand the importance of dry land
• Everyone uses pace clock
• Stroke technique with drills
• Understands the advantage of streamline
• Improve starts, turns, and finishes
• Focus on aerobic conditioning
• Strong kicking in all strokes
• Set individual swimming goals
• TEAM BONDING

By end of season

• Increased strength and conditioning
• Increased turn over speed
• Everyone knows their times
• Implement race strategies
• TEAM spirit and cheering on deck
• Good sportsmanship

13 and ups - First half of season

• Review team rules
• Understand importance of dry land
• Interval swimming
• Advanced stroke techniques and race strategies
• Improve starts, turns, and finishes
• Understand importance of strong kick and streamline
• Set personal swimming goals
• Focus on aerobic and anaerobic conditioning
• TEAM BONDING

By end of season

• Focus on specific stroke improvements
• Swimmers improve on their times
• Utilize underwater work at all times
• Perfect the breakout stroke
• Model good sportsmanship and TEAM SPIRIT for Dolphins
• SET THE TONE FOR THE TEAM