At the first practice, new swimmers must demonstrate to the coach the ability to swim one 25 meter length of the pool using the freestyle stroke, or similar, with the following components:

• attempt to swim horizontally face down in the water,
• arms coming out of the water 
• no touching the bottom of the pool ( may rest on the lane lines temporarily )
• attempt to turn head to the side to breathe, and
• swimmer needs no coaxing into or through the water once it's their turn to swim.

For the safety of all swimmers, we ask parents not to speak with coaches while kids are in the water at practice.