About this Event
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Registration Closes: 7/4/2025
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Session 2: 7/7/2025 - 7/30/2025
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Prerequisites:
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Purpose:
- Help participants gain basic aquatic skills and swimming strokes
- Teach skills and concepts needed to stay safe in and around water and to help themselves or others in an aquatic emergency
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Learning objectives:
- Increase comfort level in the water
- Experience breath control
- Experience buoyancy
- Moving through the water (Level 3 stroke performance criteria)
- Learn safety skills and safe behaviors in and around the water
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Exit skills assessment:
- Jump into deep water from the side, recover to the surface, maintain position by treading or floating for 1 minute, turn as necessary to orient to the exit point, level off, swim front crawl and/or elementary backstroke for 25 yards, then exit the water
- Push off in a streamlined position, then swim front crawl for 15 yards, change position and direction as necessary, swim elementary backstroke for 15 yards, then exit the water
