Squads 

TRAINING GROUP
In this squad you will be working on improving your stroke technique and your stamina. You probably would have moved from lessons and only been used to
swimming for 30 minutes once a week. You will learn how to dive off blocks and
start to learn the ASA Laws for the turns.
WHITE  SQUAD
In this squad you should have efficient frontcrawl with good breathing technique, you will have good body position for backcrawl and you will have a good breaststroke leg kick with developement of breaststroke timing and developing butterfly. Your stamina will be improving and your turns and starts will be coming along too. in this squad you will continue to improve on all the above.Technical Developement being paramount.
BLUE SQUAD
In this squad you will start to work a little Aerobically improving your stamina even further.Your technical developement will be continued including starts and turns. You will also be working on sprints and preparing for competitions. You will still be pre PHV in this squad which means you haven’t started to grow rapidly yet.
RED SQUAD
During your PHV (Peak Height Volocity) it is extremely important to work AEROBICALLY.  In this squad you will be doing just that. The main focus will be HIGH VOLUME LOW INTENSITY work. You will still be concentrating on Technique throughout but you will be swimming many more metres.Because of your age you may find you go through the earlier squads quite quickly, this will be because of LTAD (Long Term Athlete Developement) and PHV(Peak High Velocity).
COUNTYSQUAD
Commit to the Programme
Arrive early and mobilise poolside
Own equipment and use it when asked to
Swim the whole session
Complete a log book and bring in for coaches to read
Have Goals and aspirations
CLUB SQUAD
Arrive early and mobilise poolside
Swim the whole session
This squad is the heart of the club and swimmers in this squad will love swimming, be very good swimmers and compete at galas and top level competitions, they may just not be able to commit fully to the COUNTY squad requirements at this stage in their developement.
FITNESS SQUAD
Chooses which sessions they swim and confirms to the committee.
Swims 3 hours a week.
Loves swimming, does lots of other activities.
Either swims for fitness or to be included in gala’s and friendly competitions.
MASTERS
You can join the Masters squad after you are 19 years old.  The Masters work from a written session plan and motivate themselves to work through the session. You can still be a part of the COUNTYor CLUB SQUAD once you have reached 19 and do not have to move to Masters just because of your age !

Coaches will continue to assess you in the squads. If you have any queries please speak to one of our coaches.