American Red Cross Lifeguard Courses:

Offering Blended learning courses with online and in-person learning.  This course gives participants the skills and knowledge needed to be lifeguards for pools. The comprehensive course offers up-to-date information on how to guard, anticipate and prevent problems, and how to take action to help those in dangerous situations. ; accident prevention, scanning techniques, Full course is $200 for members and $300 for non-members.

PARTICIPANTS MUST BE ABLE TO ATTEND ALL CLASS SESSIONS.  Deep water portions to be held at separate facility.

Prerequisites:

• Must be 15 years of age by the completion of the course
• Able to perform: Swim-Tread-Swim: swim (freestyle or breaststroke) 150 yards, tread water for 2 minutes, then finish by swimming 50 yards (freestyle or breaststroke).  No time requirement – goggles are permitted.
• Able to perform: Brick swim.  Swim 20 yards to retrieve a 10 pound brick in water deeper than 6 feet, tow the brick back to the starting point and exit the water.  Swimmers have 1 minute and 40 seconds to complete this skill.  Goggles are not permitted.

Upon successful completion a participant will earn 2 year certifications in: Lifeguarding, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, AED, First Aid.

Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Course – Blended Learning

This course will prepare the candidate to become familiar with the process, structure and skills to teach group and private swim lessons.  This is a blended learning course, meaning there will be about 9 hours of online course work that must be completed before the in person dates.

In-Person Class Dates and times:

Friday April 25 – 5pm – 8pm

Saturday April 26 – 9am – 6pm

Sunday April 27 – 9am – 6pm

Location:  Middle Tyger YMCA – 720 Shoals Road Duncan SC 29334

Cost: $375 members / $400 non-members  (*current employees are eligible for a credit $150 with work agreement – see Kelly Colley for details)

This class will be taught by a visiting instructor.  Please be sure to check your schedule to ensure that you can be present for all class times listed.  This class will have a significant amount of time in the water with traditional classroom learning.  Please be prepared to be in the pool multiple times within the day.

Must be 15 years of age & able to demonstrate all 6 swimming strokes.

Questions welcome!  Email me!  Kelly Colley    [email protected]