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OLT Waterfront Try-outs
Date: Sunday, June 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 A.M. and 10:00 A.M.
Location: Couchiching Beach
What is Lifesaving Sport?
The Lifesaving Sport program is an internationally recognized sport that combines swimming and lifesaving skills in a fun and energetic team environment. The Orillia Lifesaving Team (OLT) aims to engage everyone eight years of age and up and encourages lifesavers to develop, maintain and improve the essential physical and mental skills needed to save lives in the aquatic environment through high-performance sport and competition. Lifesaving Sport is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation, and competitions are held in Ontario, Canada and internationally, depending on the level.
The Lifesaving Sport Mission
Lifesaving Sport is the only sport where skills are first learned for humanitarian purposes. Through Lifesaving Sport, the Lifesaving Society seeks to engage and inspire youth in a drowning prevention mission. The Lifesaving Sport objectives are:
- To support the drowning prevention work of the Lifesaving Society and its humanitarian mission.
- To provide athletes, coaches, and officials opportunities for participation in lifesaving sport at all levels from developmental to high performance.
- To position the Lifesaving Society internationally as a leader in lifesaving sport.
Orillia Lifesaving Team Waterfront Lifesaving Sport Levels and Practice Schedule
| OLT Waterfront - Novice Division (7-11) |
| For kids 7-11 years old, this is a great introduction and development to learning lifesaving sport in a waterfront environment. Swimmers in this level develop confidence, skills and fitness in open water swimming, beach running, prone rescue paddleboarding and racing. Lifesaving Sport is a great way to bridge the gap between swimming lessons and leadership courses while also developing stronger swimming abilities, staying fit and having fun. Athletes in this group participate in one hour of practice 2x per week with a Specialized Lifesaving Sport Coach to acquire open water rescue knowledge, skills and fitness goals. Minimum requirement: be able to swim 50m comfortably and tread water for 60 seconds. |
| OLT Waterfront - Junior Lifeguard (12-15) |
| For youth 12-15 years old, this is a great segway those that have completed swimming lesson up to Swimmer 6 or have swam with OLT Silver and Gold divisions seeking to learn and develop new lifesaving and rescue skills and challenge their fitness levels through waterfront lifesaving sport disciplines of open water swimming, rescue paddleboarding, beach running and sprinting. This group consists of athletes ready to take an advance approach to workouts and challenges through Lifesaving Sport to round out their experience in the sport or build skillsets and physical fitness towards becoming a future waterfront lifeguard. Practices at this level reflect more capacity and commitment to training 1.5 hours, 3x per week with a Specialized Lifesaving Sport Coach aiming to prepare participants to attend the Provincial Lifesaving Waterfront Championships in mid August. |
| Register NOW! |
| Click HERE to register for the Orillia Lifesaving Team! |
