JR. LIFEGUARD PROGRAM
Wackford Community & Aquatic Complex
Resident Registration: April 17th
Non-Resident Registration: May 1st

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Ages 11-15
A program designed to instruct youth in lifeguarding through skill development. Each session includes physical fitness, water skills, teamwork, emergency preparedness, and certification in Basic Water Rescue, along with its own unique theme. This program prepares participants for a job in the lifeguarding field plus builds their confidence, fitness and self-esteem. (Please bring the following items in a bag daily: swim suit, towel, sunscreen, and a lunch)

Prerequisites:   Swim 100 yards front crawl, tread water for 1-minute, and retrieve a 10 lb. brick from 7 ft. of water tested on the first day

Wackford Community and Aquatic Complex
Blue Heron Room
$85/session

Session 1         
Lifeguard Like the Pros
Learn the real deal skills that lifeguards do and use daily! This week will have participants learning and using water skills necessary to save a life in the pool. Learn important techniques of: surveillance, zone coverage, customer service, decision making, water entries, surface dives, reaching rescues, surface rescues, deep water rescues, and extrication from the pool. Learn to work as a team and make split second decisions. You’ll also discuss first aid and learn skills to handle everyday first aid injuries and some more complex injuries. Last day includes a real life scenario challenge that all Jr. Guards will assess, react, perform, and treat.

Session 2         
Water Training with a Twist
Think you have the hydrodynamic ability it takes to be lifeguard? This week you will be tested in everything that has to do with water. Instructors will assist with proper swimming strokes, strength, and conditioning so that you can respond to a drowning with speed and accuracy. This is not swim team practice, but instead lifeguard water training that includes: approach strokes, relays, everything but the kitchen sink, tread water, rescue tube use, up and outs, surface dives, brick retrieval, mannequin retrieval, and much more. Get ready to be trained by the best, to become the best!     

Session 3         
Shock Thru the Heart
This week focuses on what is CPR and how to perform CPR. Learn signs and symptoms of a heart attack and what happens to the heart during cardiac arrest. Learn what an AED (automated external defibrillator) is and how these tools can save a life. CPR is a tough skill to perform and we will add to it by having you perform it blind folded, after water rescues, and in unique places such as on stairs. You will also learn how to perform CPR on a child and infant. The real fun comes when you do it all in a relay using water skills and CPR skills against real lifeguards to test what you have learned. The skills learned this week could save the life of a family member or friend.

Session 4         
Lifeguard Like the Pros
(Repeat of Session 1) Learn the real deal skills that lifeguards do and use daily! This week will have participants learning and using water skills necessary to save a life in the pool. Learn important techniques of: surveillance, zone coverage, customer service, decision making, water entries, surface dives, reaching rescues, surface rescues, deep water rescues, and extrication from the pool. Learn to work as a team and make split second decisions. You’ll also discuss first aid and learn skills to handle everyday first aid injuries and some more complex injuries. Last day includes a real life scenario challenge that all Jr. Guards will assess, react, perform, and treat.

Session 5         
Uh-Oh! Emergency Preparation
Learn how to prepare, respond, and care for people prior to and during an emergency. Emergencies come in many forms and together with your fellow Jr. Guard’s you will prepare not only for aquatic emergencies but also: earthquakes, floods, power outage, missing child and lock down procedures. Unexpected emergencies such as a fire, finding someone unconscious, or a sudden illness occur frequently. This week you will learn how to respond to these emergencies, learn important first aid skills, disaster preparedness, controlling the scene, and train with the Fire Department on specific skills such as fire extinguishers and evacuation plans. Lifeguards are first responders and should be prepared for any situation. Safety first and safety always!

Session 6         
Jr. WSI
Lifeguard’s do so much more then prepare for emergencies, practice rescue skills, and perform CPR. They are ambassadors for water safety and teach learn to swim techniques to a variety of ages. This week will focus on Jr. Guards as swim instructors. You will understand the importance of water safety and learning to swim at an early age. A small clinic will be held introducing all six strokes plus safety skills, and then you will learn how to instruct these skills using our current swim lesson program. Topics include: trust, learning techniques, stages of learning, stroke development, life skills and survival skills. On the last day, compete against each other with the skills you’ve learned in your own Jr. Guard Olympic Games!

Session 7         
Shock Thru the Heart
(Repeat of Session 3) This week focuses on what is CPR and how to perform CPR. Learn signs and symptoms of a heart attack and what happens to the heart during cardiac arrest. Learn what an AED (automated external defibrillator) is and how these tools can save a life. CPR is a tough skill to perform and we will add to it by having you perform it blind folded, after water rescues, and in unique places such as on stairs. You will also learn how to perform CPR on a child and infant. The real fun comes when you do it all in a relay using water skills and CPR skills against real lifeguards to test what you have learned. The skills learned this week could save the life of a family member or friend.

Session 8
Water Training with a Twist
(Repeat of Session 2) Think you have the hydrodynamic ability it takes to be lifeguard. This week you will be tested in everything that has to do with water. Instructors will assist with proper swimming strokes, strength, and conditioning so that you can respond to a drowning with speed and accuracy. This is not swim team practice, but instead lifeguard water training that includes: approach strokes, relays, everything but the kitchen sink tread water, rescue tube use, up and outs, surface dives, brick retrieval, mannequin retrieval, and much more. Breaks will be short and will include other team building games that show the importance of working together. Get ready to be trained by the best, to become the best!

Session 9          
X-treme Jr. Guards
We want to see who is a cut above the rest! This week will be all about everything lifeguarding and doing it while having fun. We will take portions from prior weeks and incorporate it into a final week of OMG craziness. From water to land, CPR to Swim Lessons, we will make sure you are laughing and having fun training as a Lifeguard. Eat your Wheaties, drink your Gatorade, and prepare for the X-treme!