Pre-Competitive Flames Swimming

The Flames Pre-Competitive Program is a fun, challenging and rewarding pre-competitive program that introduces swimmers between the ages of 8-12 years to the sport of competitive swimming. Athletes in this program will learn the basics of the four Olympic competitive swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly and be introduced to swimming starts and turns.    

Our Flames pre-Competitive Program has 3 levels; Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced* that athletes can join.

Program Level Prerequisites:   

Beginner – Confident floating on front and back as well as successful completion of front glide, side glide and back glide for five metres.   

Intermediate – Confident swimming 25 meters of front crawl, back crawl, and backstroke kick.   

Advanced* – Confident swimming 75 meters of front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke and butterfly kick in deep end.

*Our Advanced Program is a full-year program from September 2025 to June 2026 and runs twice weekly on Tuesdays and Fridays from 7:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M.