Improve your swimmer’s swimming ability, water sport and safety skills, endurance and strokes through this six level program, and better able them to select a satisfying path toward synchronized swimming, lifesaving, competitive swimming or advance leadership.  Instructor to participant ratio is 1:8.

 

Star 1 teaches basic water safety, delivering the Lifesaving Society’s Rookie 1^st Aid skills, improve front crawl to an intermediate standard, build back crawl to an initial standard and introduce elementary backstroke.  The endurance swim for this level is 75 meters.

 

Star 2 teaches the Lifesaving Society’s Rookie H2O Proficiency, further develop front crawl to an advanced standard, back crawl to an intermediate level, elementary backstroke to an initial standard, and introduce breaststroke.  The endurance swim for this level is 150 meters.

 

Star 3 teaches Lifesaving Society’s Rookie Recognition & Rescue, to continue to build and improve front crawl and back crawl, develop elementary backstroke to an intermediate standard and breaststroke to an initial standard.  The endurance swim for this level is 300 meters.

 

Star 4 teaches Lifesaving Society’s Ranger 1^st Aid, develop skills such as eggbeater kick, breaststroke and front crawl starts and turns, continue to improve strokes and introduce sidestroke.  The endurance swim for this level is 400 meters.

 

Star 5 teaches the Lifesaving Society’s Ranger H2O Proficiency, improve eggbeater kick, and continue to develop strokes bringing breaststroke to an advanced standard, sidestroke to an initial standard and introduction to butterfly.  The endurance swim for this level is 500 meters.

 

Star 6 teaches the Lifesaving Society’s Ranger Recognition and Rescue, Star First Aid, and continues to develop swim strokes.  This level includes some water sport skills as well as an introduction to leadership where participants teach a swim skill.  The endurance swim for this level is 600 meters.