YELLOW LEVEL END GOALS:
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Familiar & comfortable being in the water & face getting wet
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Crocodile arms to the steps or gutter unassisted
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Beginning ‘Pizza’ arms & ‘Frog’ legs to & from steps or gutter
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Assisted back float with coach lightly supporting neck
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Can kick on back with breathing gloves & fins width of pool
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Using ‘Crocodile’ arms & legs can lift head out of water for a breath or ‘pretend’ breath when cued (without fins)
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Assisted roll from stomach to back (‘Pancake Flip’)
GREEN LEVEL END GOALS:
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‘Crocodile’ arms without fins across the width of the pool with 1-2 breaths
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‘Pizza’ arms & ‘Frog’ legs with 2 breaths for the width of pool
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'Pancake Flip' for breath while swimming
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Backstroke arms & legs the width of pool
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Dolphin kicks the width of pool with fins
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Can pull themselves out of pool unassisted
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Take a big leap from side of pool, turn around & swim back
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Can get toys from bottom of pool in shallow end
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Willing & able to swim the width of pool without goggles
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Can swim width of pool with water flooded in goggles
ORANGE LEVEL END GOALS:
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8 ‘bobs’ with a push off the bottom in shallow end
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Can do 3 dolphin kicks per 1 butterfly arm cycle without fins
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Backstroke start with streamline arms kicking width of pool
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Breaststroke with breaths (Focusing on windmill arms)
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Freestyle & side breaths
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45 second unassisted back float
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15 second water tread
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Assisted underwater summersault
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Seated dive
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Knee dive
PURPLE LEVEL END GOALS:
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Swim Freestyle without feet hanging below hips
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Swim Breaststroke with arms shooting forward & held in a streamline position as legs squeeze together
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Swim a Backstroke kick, rotating shoulders & hips so they break the surface of the water
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2 hand touch with streamline turns
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Back float 1 minute
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Treading water for 90 seconds with arms & legs
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Tread with one hand out of the water for 15 seconds
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Tumble/flip turn with arms in streamline position before pushing of
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Get rings or toys from the bottom of deep end without flippers
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Do a grab start streamline dive
BROWN LEVEL END GOALS:​​
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Treading water 3 minutes without fins
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Treading water 20 seconds, hands up, no fins
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Treading water arms only, 30 seconds
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Swimmer pretends to have a cramp in their calf. They must rub it, get breaths & make it to the end of the pool
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Tread water with clothes & shoes on, no goggles for 1 minute
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Swim 1 lap fully clothed with no goggles
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While treading water, remove shoes & socks & swim unassisted with no goggles
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Dive to bottom of deep end & retrieve red, heavy balls using fins
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Understands how to spot a rip current in the ocean & explain how to get back to safety
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Do a frog stroke underwater for 1 lap
WHITE LEVEL END GOALS:
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Swim Individual Medley in order with legal touches & finish
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Tread water for 3 minutes
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Underwater frog stroke
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Kick on back with red, heavy ball on chest, no fins
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Swim Freestyle with head out of water pushing a ball between their arms water polo style
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Tread water with clothes & shoes on for 1 minute
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Fully clothed Backstroke survival swim
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While treading water, remove shoes & socks & swim unassisted, any stroke
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Understands how to spot a rip current in the ocean & explain how to get back to safety by swimming parallel to the beach