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SwimAmerica Program
The Michael & Georgia Miller Venice is a proud SwimAmerica site. SwimAmerica has been in existence for over seventeen years. The SwimAmerica program gradually moves students through ten different levels of stations while emphasizing the importance of air exchange.
Station 1-“Bubbles” (Beginner, non-swimmer, afraid of the water)
Students will learn gradual water adaptation, movement in the water, breath holding and release, submersion of the face, opening eyes under water, blowing bubbles, bobbing with bubbles and air exchange, and basic kicking skills.
Station 2-“Floats and Glides” (Beginner, non-swimmer, not afraid of the water)
Students should be able to perform relaxed bobs before entering this station. In this level students will learn how to perform a front and back float, how to recover from both floats, front and back glides, and work on basic kicking skills.
Station 3-“Kicking” (Beginner, swims without floatation device)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include dolphin kick, front glide with recovery, back glide with recovery, and dolphin kick with recovery. By the conclusion of the station students should be able to kick on their front and back for 15ft.
Station 4-“Crawl Stroke” (Intermediate, can swim but knows no strokes)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include rolling over from the front to the back, rolling over from back to front, fining and sculling, side-glide-kick, crawl arms stroke, and must be able to do the side-glide-kick and crawl stroke for 20ft.
Station 5-“Freestyle” (Intermediate, knows freestyle and backstroke)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include crawl stroke with breathing and back crawl. In order to advance to Station 6 students must be able to swim a minimum of 30ft feet of crawl stroke with breathing.
Station 6-“Backstroke” (Intermediate, knows freestyle, backstroke and diving)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include extended freestyle swimming, treading water, jumping in and treading water, sitting dive, kneeling dive, and standing dive. By the end of this level students should be able to swim 75ft of freestyle, 30ft swim backstroke, and tread water for 1 minute.
Station 7-“Breaststroke” (Intermediate, strong swimming skills)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include breaststroke kick, breaststroke swim, butterfly arms, and butterfly swim. By the end of this level students should be able to swim freestyle 50 yards, swim backstroke 25 yards, and kick breaststroke 20 ft.
Station 8 - “Turns” (Advanced)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include freestyle with bilateral breathing and turns. By the end of this level students should be able to swim freestyle for 100 yards (using bilateral breathing for 25 yards), swim 2 yards of breaststroke, and swim 30 ft of butterfly.
Station 9-“Lifetime Strokes” (Advanced)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include sidestroke swim and kick, and elementary backstroke. By the end of this level students should be able to swim 200 yards of freestyle (with bilateral breathing for 50 yards), 25 yards of butterfly, 50 yards of breaststroke, 50 yards of elementary backstroke, and 50 yards of sidestroke.
Station 10-“Individual Medley” (Advanced)
To enter this level, students must be able to perform all tasks from previous stations. Skills to be learned in this station will include extended swimming and technique refinement in all major strokes and turns. By the end of this level students should be able to swim 300 yards freestyle, 100 yards backstroke, and 100 yards individual medley (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle).
