What we can offer you:
We run a wide range of swimming sessions spread across the week from Learn to Swim, competitive swimming, fitness swimming and Masters' swimming for more mature swimmers! All of our sessions are led by dedicated, qualified coaches and teachers that seek to support and educate in the best way possible.
Learn to Swim (£14.25/month)
Our Learn to Swim classes run on a Wednesday afternoon from 16:00-18:00 & Saturday morning from 09:00-11:00, with 1-1 opportunities readily available throughout the week. For more details, please us through the 'contact us' tab at the bottom of our homepage.
Competitive Squads: (Full Overview in Documents Section)
Junior Squad (£17.50/month) (Up to 3 hours a week - Tuesday pm, Friday pm & Saturday am)
Once swimmers have reached the required level, they can progress to our Junior Programme within the main club framework, where their skills will be refined in preparation for a more competitive level of swimming, including starts & dives, turns, breakouts & stroke maintenance. Swimmers that the coaching team feel are ready for competitive swimming will be encouraged to enter.
Swimmers can move into Development Squad based on coach discretion.
Development Squad (£41/month (Up to 7.75 hours a week - Tuesday pm*, Friday pm, Saturday am & Sunday pm)
In this squad, swimmers still work to perfect their strokes and other technical areas such as starts, turns & finishes as well as building up physical & mental strengths that allow swimmers to perform to their potential. Members of Development Squad are expleted to compete and once they reach Development 1 Squad members will be expected to compete regularly. Competitive members should be aiming to achieve Devon County Qualifying Times, which can be found in our 'Documents' section on the homepage. Membership to this squad will be reviewed on a termly basis to assess training attendance and effort as well as competition attendance. Members who don't fit the criteria of this squad may be asked to move to a squad more suited to their goals and/or ability.
Swimmers can move into Performance Squad based on coach discretion.
Performance Squad (£53/month) (Up to 14 hours a week - Monday am, Wednesday am, Thursday pm*, Friday am, Friday pm , Saturday am & Sunday pm)
Our top competitive squad is specifically designed to allow swimmers to compete at the highest level that their potential allows them to. All swimmers in the squad will be expected to compete and the programme is designed as such. Swimmers in this squad are aiming for South West Regional Qualifying Times as well as qualifying for National Level competitions. Swimmers in this squad will be expected to enter competitions advised by the coaching team as well as attend a minimum of 4 sessions a week on a regular basis.
*A 60 minute land-based training session is led on these evenings by a fully qualified personal trainer using a programme designed to enhance swimming performance.
All members and parents/carers must also be members of McCaulays gym, whose prices are independant from our own.
