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.

MAY Evening and Saturday Class Schedule – BLENDED LEARNING

May 20 – 23 : 5 – 9pm     Middle Tyger Location

May 24 : 9 – 4pm    Middle Tyger Location

Requirements:

• Must present American Red Cross Lifeguard Certification
• Lifeguard Certification must be less than 30 days past expiration date
• Deep water portions to be held at separate facility.

If no classes are listed, please contact Middle Tyger YMCA at 864-433-9623 or Thomas E Hannah at 864-585-0306.