SWIMMERS MUST BE AGED 8+ AND ABLE TO SWIM 100m (4 lengths) CONTINUOUS FRONT CRAWL WITH HEAD IN WATER OR HAVE PASSED THE 'LEARN TO SWIM STAGE 7 AWARD'. These are not 'learn to swim' sessions. All new swimmers will need to be assessed by one of our coaches at their first session.
There will be 4 lanes with up to 6 Juniors in each, depending on abilities. The lanes are coached as Lane 1 - 1 coach, Lane 2 - 1 coach, Lane 3&4 - 1 coach. This allows for good coach:swimmer ratios and more individual attention for the juniors. The sessions include front crawl technique drills and a main set, distance varies per lane with a few minutes for other skills or challenges at the end. The content of the sessions may vary with each lane. The aim is to improve each Juniors' ability to swim with progression through the lanes into Lane 4 and then progress into our Progression Swim Sessions at the Hewett Academy on Wednesday evenings and also into our Open Water Swim Sessions at Whitlingham Lake. Once Juniors reach 18 years of age they can join our adult sessions. More information:
- Meeting point is at the pool side fire door entrance/exit.
- All swimmers please come 'swim ready' so they can get changed on the poolside. This is because another Junior swimming club use the pool before us and will be using the changing rooms as our Juniors arrive. If your junior also attends our run session beforehand - many of our juniors run with their swimming kit or a Trisuit on underneath their running kit.
- We require a 'parent to coach' handover at the start and end of each session. If your junior is attending the swim session only, please bring your Junior to the coaches at the fire exit pool door and collect them from the main pool door at the end of the swim session. To adhere to British Triathlon Safeguarding policies, we do not allow Juniors to walk to and from the car park on their own, unless they are over 16 and written permission has been requested and accepted by our coaching team.
- Please remember to bring any medications your junior may require, inform the coaches and make sure your junior knows to bring them poolside and give to the coaches to look after during the session. e.g Epi-pens or Asthma inhalers
- Please remember water bottles to bring poolside.
- If your Junior is attending the run and the swim session, our coaches will escort them from the run field to the pool for the swim session, please can you collect your junior from the main pool door at the end of the swim session.
- If driving to the school, please park in the car park from Albermarle road to avoid being locked in.
- If the session has to be cancelled it will be marked as 'Cancelled' here on this page and an email sent to all participants with as much notice as we can provide.
If you have any questions, feel free to email
JuniorCoaches@tri-anglia.co.uk
- PLEASE NOTE:
- Juniors must be booked into sessions to attend.
- Please join the waiting list if the session is full. You will be notified via email if a space becomes available, but please also check the list of names on this page incase you miss the email.
- If you have booked your child(ren) on to the session and then they are not able to attend, please remember to remove their name(s) from the list before 12noon on the day, so that another Junior is able to take their place. After 12 noon, please do email us to let us know if your junior can't make the session as if we can, we may be able to fill the space with a Junior from the waiting list. JuniorCoaches@tri-anglia.co.uk
- If your junior is unable to attend a session and you don't remove their name you will STILL be charged for the session.
