Level 1

• This class is for young inexperienced and/or apprehensive children. Swimmers will begin to develop confidence through water exploration and basic skills. They will learn water management skills, body balancing and unassisted submersion of their face.

Level 2

• Young children enthusiastic to participate on their own with water exploration. Swimmers must be willing to submerge their face unassisted. They will learn water management skills, body balancing leading into kicking, and experimentation with swimming on their front and back.

Level 3

• Children determined to participate further with water exploration. Swimmers must be comfortable submerging their face while lifting their feet to body balance and kick. They will learn water management skills, advanced body balancing leading into kicking, and experiment with swimming on their front and back unassisted.

Level 4

• Children ready to develop stroke skills utilizing independent front and back body balance and submersion. Swimmers must be comfortable moving through the water without assistance. They will develop freestyle and backstroke skills through skill progression.

Level 5

• Children who can exhibit both freestyle and backstroke with a supportive kick. Swimmers will master breathing during freestyle as well as further backstroke through skill progression, stressing core body balancing.

Level 6

• Children who can exhibit both freestyle and backstroke with a supportive kick and rhythmic breathing. Swimmers will perfect stroke technique with drills. Additionally children will work with long axis core development to achieve maximum stroke efficiency and master flip turns for freestyle and backstroke.

Level 7

• Children who can exhibit both freestyle and backstroke with a supportive rhythmic breathing using long axis core techniques. Swimmers will be introduced to short axis core development to develop skills necessary to swim breaststroke and butterfly, as well as learn how to dive.

Level 8

• Children who can demonstrate competitive freestyle and backstroke skills, eager to master their body rotation and pull efficiency. Swimmers will continue to develop their core body for short axis strokes (breaststroke and butterfly). Timing will be established for breaststroke, with the combination of the kick and pull.