Level 5/6 – Crawl Stroke + Pre-Team
5-16 years
Prerequisites: Hand lead crawl stroke with rotary breathing 25′
Level 5/6 is taught in the competition pool* and designed to improve swimmers in freestyle, back stroke and when ready adding breast stroke and butterfly. Swimmers will work on perfecting technique, endurance and if desired readiness for swim team.
Level 5 swimmers focus on:
- Crawl arm stroke with rotary breathing
- Tread water 60 seconds
- Retrieve object in water over head
- Intro to diving: sitting/kneeling dives
- Intro to breaststroke
- Intro to backstroke
- Advancement: crawl stroke with rotary breathing 25 yards
- Advancement: stride jump
- Advancement: tread water 60 seconds
Level 6 swimmers continue with focus on:
- Extended freestyle
- Backstroke
- Breaststroke
- Jump in to tread water two minutes
- Independent Diving- sitting/kneeling/standing
- Pike/tuck surface dives
- Advancement: freestyle 50 yards
- Advancement: backstroke 50 yards
- Advancement: tread water 120 seconds
Colby Sawyer Pre-Team
Dates & Pricing
Dates:
Five 6-week sessions throughout the school year with priority registration for Members!
Fall Session 1
Sept 11 – Oct 22 • Registration opens 9/4* and 9/5 @ 7:00pm
COLBY SAWYER PRE-TEAM September 25-October 30 • Registration open 8/21 • Monday’s 6:00-6:45pm • Wednesday’s 4:00-4:45pm
Start – Sept 27th, Oct 4th, Oct 11th, Oct 18th, Oct 25th, Nov 1st
Fall Session 2
Oct 30 – Dec 17 • Registration opens 10/23* and 10/24 @ 7:00pm
(No lessons M-Sun Thanksgiving Week)
Winter Session 1
Jan 2 – Feb 12 • Registration Opens 12/18* and 12/19 @ 7:00pm
Winter Session 2
Feb 26 – April 7 Registration Opens 2/13* and 2/14 @ 7:00pm
Spring Session
April 15 – May 26 Registration Opens 4/8* and 4/9 @ 7:00pm
Times:
Pick one
Tuesdays: 3:45 – 4:30pm
Thursdays: 3:45 – 4:30pm
Saturdays: 8:10 – 8:55
Member Price:
$111 / 6-wk session
Non-Member Price:
$129 / 6-wk session
- •Private lessons are available.
Not a member? Find out more!
New Registration System 10/22
Set up your account TODAY!
May take up to 7 business days to process
- Please check in at the Welcome Desk.
- Let the Welcome Desk know if you are new to UVAC and they can direct you down the hall to our locker rooms!
- All of our locker rooms also exit onto the deck of the Warm Water Pool where our lessons are conducted!
Please bring:
- Towels
- Desired Toiletries
- REQUIRED Swim Diaper
- Reusable swim diapers are allowed
- We also have disposable swim diapers available at the Welcome Desk for $3
- Please don’t take swim diapers off on the pool deck, but rather wait to be in the locker rooms or front hall bathroom, Thank you!
Unfortunately, extended swimming is not yet available for weekend lessons
Space permitting both parents may participate in the class!
- If you’ve never been here before, when you go back into the locker rooms after being in the warm water… it will feel chillier… but if you bring your towels on deck with you, that will help!
- Please review our current Swim Lesson Protocols (Link to protocols page).
Private Swim Lessons
Red Cross Classes
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