City of Wakefield Swimming Club Training Scheme
Squad Exit Criteria
General Squad Expectations
- Be punctual – Arrive on poolside on time for each session
- Be prepared to listen to the coach and work effectively. Instruction and Feedback is given for your benefit.
- Meet the training requirements as specified by the coach. Training sets are planned to allow you to achieve YOUR goals and objectives
- Be respectful to the coaching staff, other swimmers, and parents
- Remain positive, if you have a concern, talk to one of the coaching staff
- Enter ALL designated club competitions
Squaddies Exit Criteria
- 3+ sessions per week with commitment to take on additional sessions
- Be able to swim 25m of Front Crawl, Backstroke, Breaststroke legally
- Be able to perform legal turns on all 4 strokes
- Good underwater skills (i.e. streamlining) when pushing from every wall
- Less than 150m missed per session
- Begin to use pace clocks, understanding when to set off.
- 3+ sessions per week
- Ability to swim all four strokes with good technique
- Good use of transition kicks during underwater phase
- Missing less than 100m per session
- Good use of the clocks using various interval patterns
- Aspirations of attaining Yorkshire times
- 45x50 Freestyle @ 1:05, 1:00, 0:55
Swim Skills A Exit Criteria
- High Attendance (85%+)
- Basic understanding of Pacing (A1, A2, AT)
- Understanding of the correlation between DPS, Stroke Rate, Stroke Length
- Ability to swim all four strokes with good technique and efficiency
- Missing less than 50m per session on a regular basis
- Good use of the clocks and understanding of rest intervals for different types of pacing’s
- High Competition attendance with times across all events
- Working towards specific agreed goals and targets set with the coach
- Use and timing of streamline, fly kick & transition kick
- 45x50 Freestyle @ 1:00, 0:55, 0:50
*Whilst this is an overview of squad criteria discretion as to squad allocation will lie with the Head Coach