Age Group

This competitive group follows FUNdamental and Learn to Train stages in Long Term Athlete Development. Each week this group has 3 pool sessions and 2 dryland sessions (working on agility, balance, coordination, body weight strength, and mobility).  

These athletes will continue learning and working on endurance in all 4 competitive strokes (free, back, breast, fly), as well as their starts, relay takeovers, and all turns. They will also practice pace clock work, interval training, goal setting, and begin to look at time standards.  

These swimmers will attend Premier level meets across the province, and some may begin to attend Invitational meets across Atlantic Canada (after attaining appropriate standards), as chosen by coaches. Swimmers must maintain, at least, a 60% attendance rate in order to attend official swim meets.

This competitive group follows Learn to Train and Train to Train stages in Long Term Athlete Development. Each week this group has 4 water sessions and 2 dryland sessions (working on agility, balance, coordination, body weight strength, and mobility).  

These athletes will continue to progress through all competitive strokes, distances, starts, and turns. They will continue to work on pace clock work, interval training, endurance, goal setting, and begin to include mental skills for competition.  

These swimmers will aim to have 3xB time standards (and above) to attend Invitational meets across Atlantic Canada, as chosen by coaches. Swimmers must maintain, at least, a 60% attendance rate in order to attend official swim meets.