PROGRAM SUMMARY

RED LEVEL END GOALS: 

• An awareness of safe entry into pool

• Comfortable moving/being in the water

• Keep mouth closed during puffer fish face. No drinking or coughing up water

• Jump from steps on cue with full face submersion & kick to coach without flippers in 3ft of water

• Can lie comfortably on their back on the magic carpet mat

• Kick with breathing gloves & fins the width of pool putting face in

• Willing & able to emotionally swim with more than just one coach

YELLOW LEVEL END GOALS:

• Familiar & comfortable being in the water & face getting wet

• Crocodile arms to the steps or gutter unassisted

• Beginning ‘Pizza’ arms & ‘Frog’ legs to & from steps or gutter

• Assisted back float with coach lightly supporting neck

• Can kick on back with breathing gloves & fins width of pool

• Using ‘Crocodile’ arms & legs can lift head out of water for a breath or ‘pretend’ breath when cued (without fins)

• Assisted roll from stomach to back (‘Pancake Flip’)

GREEN LEVEL END GOALS:

• ‘Crocodile’ arms without fins across the width of the pool with 1-2 breaths

• ‘Pizza’ arms & ‘Frog’ legs with 2 breaths for the width of pool

• 'Pancake Flip' for breath while swimming

• Backstroke arms & legs the width of pool 

• Dolphin kicks the width of pool with fins 

• Can pull themselves out of pool unassisted

• Take a big leap from side of pool, turn around & swim back 

• Can get toys from bottom of pool in shallow end 

• Willing & able to swim the width of pool without goggles

• Can swim width of pool with water flooded in goggles

ORANGE LEVEL END GOALS:

• 8 ‘bobs’ with a push off the bottom in shallow end

• Can do 3 dolphin kicks per 1 butterfly arm cycle without fins

• Backstroke start with streamline arms kicking width of pool

• Breaststroke with breaths (Focusing on windmill arms)

• Freestyle & side breaths 

• 45 second unassisted back float

• 15 second water tread

• Assisted underwater summersault

• Seated dive

• Knee dive

CORAL LEVEL END GOALS:

• Correctly name all 4 competitive strokes

• Demonstrate legal breaststroke & butterfly finish (2 hands)

• Correctly name the order of the independent medley

• Demonstrate proper backstroke finish

• Feet turning out during breaststroke kick

• Backstroke start then 3 backstroke laps

• 3 Grab Start dives

• 3 Track Start dives

• Swim an Individual Medley

BLUE LEVEL END GOALS:

• 10 bobs in deep end then go 1/2 way to the bottom

• Demonstrate competitive legal butterfly stroke

• Backstroke arms with correct roll rotation

• Freestyle stroke breathing on both sides every 3 strokes

• 1 lap underwater dolphin kick with fins

• 1 lap streamline kicking on back without fins

• Get a ring from deep end with or without flippers

• Can do an underwater somersault & streamlined push off on their back while slowly kicking from the back to the stomach, coming up & taking two freestyle strokes

• Can swim each individual medley stroke in order

• Simulate a surfboard wipeout

• Tread water doing an eggbeater kick

PURPLE LEVEL END GOALS:

• Swim Freestyle without feet hanging below hips

• Swim Breaststroke with arms shooting forward & held in a streamline position as legs squeeze together

• Swim a Backstroke kick, rotating shoulders & hips so they break the surface of the water

• 2 hand touch with streamline turns

• Back float 1 minute

• Treading water for 90 seconds with arms & legs

• Tread with one hand out of the water for 15 seconds

• Tumble/flip turn with arms in streamline position before pushing of

• Get rings or toys from the bottom of deep end without flippers

• Do a grab start streamline dive

BROWN LEVEL END GOALS:​​

• Treading water 3 minutes without fins

• Treading water 20 seconds, hands up, no fins

• Treading water arms only, 30 seconds

• Swimmer pretends to have a cramp in their calf. They must rub it, get breaths & make it to the end of the pool

• Tread water with clothes & shoes on, no goggles for 1 minute

• Swim 1 lap fully clothed with no goggles

• While treading water, remove shoes & socks & swim unassisted with no goggles

• Dive to bottom of deep end & retrieve red, heavy balls using fins

• Understands how to spot a rip current in the ocean & explain how to get back to safety

• Do a frog stroke underwater for 1 lap

BLACK LEVEL END GOALS:

• Swim freestyle for 6 laps without stopping, with tumble turns & streamlines off each wall

• Swim backstroke for 3 laps with tumble turns

• Swim breaststroke for 3 laps with an underwater pull down when they push off each wall

• Swim butterfly stroke for 2 laps

• Swim Individual Medley with legal turns

• Tread water with both hands out of water for 30 seconds

• Do a water polo backstroke

• Shoot a water polo ball into a goal or imaginary goal

• Catch a small ball thrown by the teacher using only one hand

WHITE LEVEL END GOALS:

• Swim Individual Medley in order with legal touches & finish

• Tread water for 3 minutes

• Underwater frog stroke

• Kick on back with red, heavy ball on chest, no fins

• Swim Freestyle with head out of water pushing a ball between their arms water polo style

• Tread water with clothes & shoes on for 1 minute

• Fully clothed Backstroke survival swim

• While treading water, remove shoes & socks & swim unassisted, any stroke

• Understands how to spot a rip current in the ocean & explain how to get back to safety by swimming parallel to the beach

GOLD LEVEL END GOALS:

• Tread water with both hands in the air waving for 45 seconds

• Kicking on back with red ball held up high out of water

• Swim 1 freestyle lap/ no breaths at Colby, 2 breaths at Lincoln

• Swim 1 butterfly lap/ no breaths at Colby, 5 breaths at Lincoln

• Swim 1 lap underwater dolphin kick without fins

• Practice buddy rescue using a noodle, rope or other object with a coach who is pretend drowning

• Timed freestyle swim

• Surfboard wipeout

RAINBOW LEVEL