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The Greater Ottawa Kingfish Swim Club is proud to invite you to join our exciting and progressive program called the

'Junior Pre Competitive Group'

Called the Junior Group, this 4 step program offers a structured step-by-step progression that teaches swimmers to be efficient and proficient in the water.

Who may swim?

The Junior Group is geared for ages 6 to 12. A swimmer needs to be deep water safe (as deemed by the coaching staff) and have basic swimming skills (front crawl and backstroke for 15 meters). During each session there will be a continuous evaluation of each swimmer, each swimmer will be moved to a suitable group as required at each location, each swimmer will have an opportunity to see their imporvement each session via a Junior Group sponsored swim meet.

What are the sessions?

The Junior Group year is broken into three sessions per year.

Session # 1: September - December
Session # 2: January - March
Session # 3: March - June

All returning swimmers to each session are given first right of refusal on retaining their spot for the proceeding session if registered during "The Early Registration" for each session.

"The Early Registration" period is now open to returning swimmers until August 15. Click here for early registration information. After August 15, registration will be opened to the public.

Junior Group Information

For further information please visit the following regarding our Junior Group:

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Junior Group: The Four Step program

Step 1 - Skill Builder
¤ Development of essential basic skills of four competitive strokes, starts, turns
¤ Short distance swimming & kicking to ensure quality of technique
¤ Development of swimming fitness and endurance through drills, challenges and fun

Step 2 - Skill Development
¤ Strokes, skills, and kicking proficiency are polished and practiced
¤ Distance is increased without compromise of technique quality
¤ Combinations of tasks are linked together to challenge and further develop each swimmer in a child friendly environment

Step 3 - Skills & Endurance
¤ Endurance and skills are enhanced to be able to maintain quality of stroke 'stronger and longer'
¤ Swim drills and kicking challenges and combinations of skills enrich this level in readiness for what’s ahead in this swimmer friendly setting
¤ Expected outcome is performance of the Individual Medley combination

Step 4 - Race Readiness
¤ Skill and enjoyment continue to coincide as we build this keen group to race readiness
¤ Adding to the swimmer’s ability to swim all four strokes will be pace clock use, more challenges and longer distance swims and kicking
¤ Expected outcome will be readiness to ‘step up’ to the GO competitive squad