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Green (8 years old and Under): Recommended to attend 2+ practices per week. Home meet participation is mandatory. Away meet participation is encouraged. Deep-water safe, capable of multiple laps in the competitive pool. Comfortable with head in the water. Fundamentals of freestyle, back-stroke, starts and turns will be emphasized.
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Orange (9-11 years old): Recommended to attend 2+ practices per week. Home meet participation is mandatory. Away meet participation is strongly encouraged. Deep water safe, capable of multiple laps in the competitive pool. Comfortable with head in the water. Fundamentals of all four competitive strokes, starts and turns will also be emphasized.
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Bronze (11-14 years old): Recommended to attend 3+ practices per week. Have achieved excellence in Green and/or Orange Group. Have the ability to read the pace clock and determine send-offs on simple interval sets. Continued refinement of technical aspects of swimming. Increased amount of sets run on an interval or rest.
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Silver (12 -15 years old): Recommended to attend 4+ practices per week. Have achieved excellence in Bronze Group. Have the ability to determine send-offs for sets with changing intervals and calculate swim times. Continued refinement of technical aspects of swimming. Increased difficulty of set and added focus on mental toughness. Become efficient in all strokes.
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Gold (13 years old and Older): Recommended to attend 5+ practices per week. Have achieved excellence in Silver Group. Have displayed a strong internal motivation, strived for excellence and a consistent commitment to attendance. Efficient in all strokes. Continued refinement of technical aspects of swimming. Commitment to our most demanding and rigorous training program.
*Ages are approximate - swimmers will be evaluated and placed in the squad that best meets that individual swimmers needs.*
Swimmers will change training squads when it makes sense for that particular athlete. Things that must be considered when moving an athlete up are as follows, but not limited to: the physical, emotional, mental and intellectual maturity of an athlete, age appropriate training, timing as it pertains to training cycles of a given season and space available. To move up, swimmers must rise to the top of the squad they are currently in. Swimmers will not be moved in order to accommodate them staying with friends or siblings. Each athlete will be moved when they are ready to ensure they are getting the most out of the program.
