Learning to compete

A club night every Tuesday at the Raptors Raumati swim club is providing a great pathway from learn to swim to competitive swimming.

The Tuesday Club Night is run by experienced coaches all who are Swimming New Zealand Swim Teacher Award qualified and many who have completed pool lifesaving and first aid courses.

Open to children from the age of five the sessions offer swimming development and beginning to swim techniques while promoting the correct strokes and skills used by competitive swimmers and racing in teams.

It runs every Tuesday night during term time and sessions run from 30 – 60 minutes dependant on the group ability.

As well as gaining competitive swimming skills the clubs focus is swimming in a fun club environment. They hold regular fun race nights throughout the whole club including the competitive squad swimmers and love when their Tuesday night swimmers enter. Many children from the Tuesday Club go on to join the club swim squad programme.

The best thing about Tuesday Club Night is the club atmosphere: swimmers start swimming and learning together, have fun, work on skills and make friendships along the way.