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Criteria for swimming

Criteria for Advanced Teaching Group: 

  • 25 metres each Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke
  • 50 metres Front Crawl or Backstroke
  • Correct starts, turns and finishes on all three strokes
  • Meterage to improve to 600-1000m per hour session
     

 Criteria for Squad 3: 

  • 50 metres Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke
  • 100 metres Front Crawl or Backstroke
  • 25 metres Butterfly
  • 100 metres Individual Medley
  • Competitive start award
  • Correct starts, turns and finishes on all strokes, including takeovers.
  • Training equipment required: kickboard, fins, drink bottle

This group should:

  • Attend minimum 2 sessions per week (optimum 3-4 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.
  • Meterage to improve to 1000-2000m per hour session.
     

 Criteria for 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
     

Criteria for Squad 1:

  • 200 metres Front Crawl, Backstroke and Breaststroke (correct underwater pullouts)
  • 400m Front Crawl
  • 100 metres Butterfly (with and without fins)
  • 200 metres Individual Medley
  • Correct starts, turns and finishes on all strokes, including takeovers.
  • Training equipment: kickboards, pull buoy, hand paddles, fins, drink bottle

This group should:

  • Attend minimum 4 sessions per week (optimum 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.
  • Monitor progress using swim test sets.
  • Meterage to improve to 2500-3000m per hour session.
  • Learn positive and negative splits. 
     

Criteria for Top Squad:

  • 400 metres Individual Medley
  • Timed sets: 10x100FC
  • 10x100 IM
  • Correct starts, turns and finishes on all strokes, including takeovers.
  • Training equipment: kickboards pull buoy, hand paddles, fins, drink bottle,

This group should:

  • Attend 5 sessions per week (optimum all 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 using the pace clock.
  • Test sets to include 200m step set, stroke efficiency and kick/pull.
  • Females working on negative splits.
  • Males working on even splits.
  • Enter approx 12 competitions per year, various level, strokes and distances
  • Meterage to improve to 3000-3500m per hour session