Development Squad is for swimmers who are new to squad swimming and have completed swimming lessons. Swimmers generally come from a swim school, swim school mini squads, and are generally our younger swimmers as they build to Bronze Squad.
This squad eases swimmers into the squad style of swimming. This Squad will still be heavily focused on technique, but will also start focusing on fitness, covering more distance in preparation for transitioning to the Bronze Squad.
Development level swimmers need to be able to swim all 4 strokes and be comfortable swimming 50m in backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle and 25m in fly at a time. Development squad sessions will involve swimming 1-1.5km in a one hour session so swimmers need to have the level of endurance to achieve this.
Development Squad swimmers are encouraged to attend club night to get used to how competitions are run. We also recommend that our Development Squad members attend and compete in the local development meet series.
Development squad swimmers will progress to a Development performance squad once they have met certain time and technique goals as assessed by coaches.
Training Sessions
| Squad | Day | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Dev | Monday | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Dev | Tuesday | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Dev | Wednesday | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Dev | Thursday | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Development performance (by invitation) | Friday | 16:30 - 18:00 |