Age Groups

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Our AGE GROUP program is subdivided into four separate groups, the Bronze Group, the Silver Group, the Gold Group and the Blue Group. Each group will give each child the opportunity to develop those ideals of sportsmanship, self-esteem, and pride that will serve them throughout their life.

White Group

If your child has little or no competitive swimming experience, they will first begin in the SwimAmerica Lesson Program or the White group.  These groups are the introductory level of Highlander Aquatics. The goal of these groups is to emphasize stroke development and body awareness for each of the four competitive strokes. Swimmers will develop outstanding freestyle and backstroke skills through numerous drills and technique work. They learn streamlines and flat dives. Breaststroke and Butterfly kick are introduced.  Workouts for the White group are offered at various times Monday - Friday with the option of USA Swimming and/or local developmental swim meets held throughout the year.

Green Group

From the White Group, a swimmer will move to the Green group where he/she will learn the proper techniques of all four competitive strokes:  Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke, and Freestyle.  They will be instructed on racing procedures such as starts, turns, and the rules and regulations involved in competitive swimming.  As a part of this instruction, interval training might be introduced and used for the purpose of repetition of an acquired skill as well as for conditioning. They participate in B-C type meets and interval training but stroke technique remains the emphasis. Swimmers perform some limited dryland training, working on coordination and core strength. Workouts are offered at various times Monday - Saturday with the option of USA Swimming and/or local developmental swim meets throughout the year.

Black Group

This group is designed for those swimmers who have a solid understanding for the four competitive strokes and are ready to begin a more involved conditioning program.  The importance of proper stroke technique is stressed; however, several practices per week will offer challenging training sets.  Swimmers have increased demands in swimming yardage and workout attendance. This group is geared toward 14 and unders who wish to focus their major athletic attention on swimming.  Workouts are offered Monday – Friday & Saturday for the Black group and swimmers are encouraged to attend all meets that Highlander Aquatics schedules.