FAST's "pre-team" program that helps ease your child into swimming with stroke development of the four competitive strokes, dives, push-offs and turns.

This class is driven by simple language and demonstrations by FAST coaches and swimmers.
 

CLASS OUTLINE

First Day: The coaching staff will give an introduction to the program, tell the participants about themselves, discuss safety protocol, and show them where the bathroom is in the locker room. They will then be fitted for fins and will be split into groups.

Weeks 1 & 2: Swimmers will swim the width of the pool. Coaches will introduce freestyle & backstroke to the participants with an emphasis on streamlines, breathing, correct technique, stroke counts, and open turns.

Weeks 3 & 4: Swimmers will still be swimming the width of the pool. Coaches will review the skills learned from the previous week and will introduce breaststroke, butterfly, and treading water. In this class, swimmers will learn the proper technique & turns for these strokes.

Weeks 4-8: Swimmers will begin to transition swimming a full 25-yard pool. Coaches will review all four (4) competitive strokes and begin the introduction to flipturns, dives, and swimming terminology.

Weeks 8-11: Coaches will begin putting an emphasis on endurance of the four (4) competitive strokes and begin mastering long underwaters, powerful push-offs, flip turns, dives, and treading water.

NOTICE: These are NOT learn-to-swim lessons. Participants must be able to proficiently swim 25-yards of a pool on their stomach (freestyle) and back (backstroke) without assistance.
 

All classes will take place at the Minerva DeLand Pool
140 Hulburt Road, Fairport, NY 14450
 

Those participating in the Intro program are permitted to compete in two (2) USA Swimming sanctioned meets, the maximum allowable with a participants Flex membership. The coaching staff will advise which meets are appropriate for Intro participants.

The cost of this 11 week program is $300 (plus a $30 USA Swimming Flex membership fee, unless you've been apart of the Pre-Team program already in the 2025-26 season). A maximum of 20 participants can be accepted into the class at a time.

Pre-Team is designed to be fun & engaging for swimmers. Sprinkled in throughout the program will be fun contests, relays, and games.

Questions?
Email us at [email protected].