Canton High School – Swimming and Diving

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course will consist of a review of the basic water skills, water safety skills, strength training, flexibility exercises and diving introduced in Personal Fitness. Water skills will include adjustment to the water, rhythmic breathing, floating (back and prone), pool conduct and water safety. The strokes presented will be the crawl stroke, backstroke, sidestroke, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. Introduction of the basic water skills will include treading water, survival floating, surface diving, finning, sculling, underwater swimming, shallow, deep-water dives and springboard diving. Students who excel at the basic strokes may be taught advanced strokes. The student will eventually develop an individual workout program designed by the student and teacher. Dry land activities will also be included in this class.