Criteria for promotion to Squad 2:

100 metres Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke (correct underwater pullouts)

200 metres Front Crawl or Backstroke

50 metres Butterfly

200 metres Individual Medley

Correct starts, turns and finishes on all strokes, including takeovers.

Training equipment required: kickboards, pull buoy, fins, drink bottle

This group should:

Attend minimum 3 sessions per week (optimum 4-5 sessions).

Understand lane etiquette, training within a group and rules of the strokes/sport.

There will be regular time trials and all swimmers will be expected to enter low level competitions.

Keep logbook of training and competition results.

Self-monitor by using the pace clock.

Meterage to improve to 1000-2000m per hour session.

Learn positive and negative splits.