Intro to Swim Team

Intro to Swim Team is a 4-week program that helps ease your child into swimming with stroke development of the four competitive strokes, dives, push-offs and turns.

This class is driven by simple language and demonstrations by FAST coaches and swimmers.

Classes are 30 minutes each, held Monday & Wednesday at Minerva DeLand.

We will be running two sessions of Intro in the fall, 2x days per week:

  • September 9th - October 2nd (Monday & Wednesday)
    • Timeslots: 4:00 - 4:30 & 4:30 - 5:00
  • October 7th - October 30th (Monday & Wednesday)
    • Timeslots: 4:00 - 4:30 & 4:30 - 5:00

CLASS OUTLINE

  • First Day: The coaching staff will give an introduction to the program, tell the participants about themselves, discuss safety protocol, and show them where the bathroom is in the locker room. They will then be fitted for fins and will be split into groups.
     
  • Week 1: Swimmers will swim the width of the pool. Coaches will introduce freestyle & backstroke to the participants with an emphasis on streamlines, breathing, correct technique, stroke counts, and open turns.
     
  • Week 2: Swimmers will still be swimming the width of the pool. Coaches will review the skills learned from the previous week and will introduce breaststroke, butterfly, and treading water. In this class, swimmers will learn the proper technique & turns for these strokes.
     
  • Week 3: Swimmers will begin to transition swimming a full 25-yard pool. Coaches will review all four (4) competitive strokes and begin the introduction to flipturns, dives, and swimming terminology.
     
  • Week 4: Coaches will begin putting an emphasis on endurance of the four (4) competitive strokes and begin mastering long underwaters, powerful push-offs, flip turns, dives, and treading water.
     

At the end of the program. The coaching staff will make a recommendation for your swimmer to either join the team with a group placement recommendation or continue with another round of our Intro program.

Intro is designed to be fun & engaging for swimmers. Sprinkled in throughout the program will be fun contests, relays, and games.

*For children with additional needs to overcome their physical, cognitive or neurological challenges in the water, please contact [email protected] before signing up for lessons.

A session of Intro costs $100 for the fall plus a $30 USA Swimming Flex membership fee (paid directly to USA Swimming).

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Questions?
Email us at [email protected].