| SKILL GROUP | WHERE THEY ARE AT | WHAT THEY WILL WORK TOWARDS |
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| Shrimps | New, or fairly new, to the water | Swimmer and a caregiver will learn to feel comfortable, safe, and confident in the water. |
| Stripers | New, or fairly new, to the water, and ready for a lesson without Parent | Comfort in water by putting different parts of body in (face, hair, ears). Some use of floatation devices |
| Level 1 | Can move independently when using a floatation device | Learn to submerge mouth, nose, and eyes, front and back float, swimming on front and back |
| Level 2 | Is comfortable submerging. Ability to float or travel short distances unaided | Enters water by stepping or jumping, open eyes underwater, front/back glide, swimming distance of front/back/side |
| Level 3 | Can swim 15+ yards without stopping; is comfortable submerging face and resurfacing while swimming | Jump into deep water, dive from side of pool, retrieve submerged objects, survival float treading water for 30 seconds, swim various strokes 15+ yards |
| Level 4 | Is familiar with various strokes and can swim 25+ yards without stopping | Improve strokes, increase endurance, feet-first surface dive, 1 minute survival float/treading/back float, throwing assists |
| Level 5 | Can swim 50+ yards and is comfortable with all strokes | Refine strokes, become more efficient, shallow dive, tuck and pike surface dives, 2 minute survival floating/treading/back float, flip turns on front and back |
| Level 6 | Will learn to swim with ease and efficiency, and gain ability to swim smoothly over greater distances with power and endurance | 500 yards continuous swim using 100 yards each of front/back crawl, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke & butterfly, 5 minute survival float/treading/back float, feet first surface dive and retrieve an object from 12 feet |
