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Orillia Lifesaving Team "Lifesavers Today, Leaders Tomorrow"
Challenge your limits, build your swimming and water rescue skills, strengthen and compete in one of the world's most exciting and meaningful Humanitarian sports.
Lifesaving Sport - Orillia Lifesaving Team builds and trains swimmers in lifesaving skills through a competitive athletic environment that combines swimming ability with lifesaving rescue techniques, It's fast paced, challenging, and built around the skills that save lives - both in the pool and in open water.
Perfect for swimmers aged 7+, that have completed Swimmer 3. Get started by attending our tryouts for placement in our bronze, silver or gold program divisions. Our certified lifesaving coaches guide participants through stroke improvement, rescue techniques, teamwork drills, and times challenges.
Why join OLT?
- We engage children and youth in overall physical fitness.
- We aim to improve water safety awareness & confidence.
- We work on stroke correction and increasing improvements in endurance, strength and speed of core swim strokes.
- We build and grow as a team & provide an environment where everyone belongs and feels supported to do their personal best.
- We encourage and challenge athletes to participate in local, regional and provincial competitions where they gain abilities and learn to manage anxieties, stress, focus under pressure and understand self-awareness.
- We build lifesaving skills to prepare for next steps in lifesaving leadership programs.
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Ready to dive in into OLT?
| OLT Program Divisions |
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The OLT program is divided into Bronze, Silver, Gold Division each split based on 2 age groups 7-11years old and 12-16 years old. OLT’s top division is for High Performance Development (HPD) individuals. See below for description, try-out standards and schedule information. Bronze Division This is a great introduction to FUNdamental foundations in Lifesaving Sport, which involves learning lifesaving skills through training in a competitive setting. Athletes in this group develop fitness and swimming skills, including stroke correction, endurance and interval strength capacity. 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. This group participates in one hour of practice per week with a coach responsible in assisting the athlete in meeting their fitness goals.
Silver Division This group consists of athletes aiming to further develop their skills and speed for competition in Lifesaving Sport after establishing a foundation in our bronze level or equivalent. Athletes in this group have demonstrated the required swimming abilities as well as the motivation to engage and compete at increasing higher levels of competition. Practices at this level are more challenging and require additional commitment to practice times to better meet the athlete’s goals.
Gold Division This group consists of athletes looking to perform at the Provincial level of Lifesaving Competitions. Practices at this level are increasingly demanding, focusing on establishing swim racing skills, as well as refinement of technical skills in lifesaving skills, event rules and competitions.
High Performance Division This group consists of athletes looking to perform at the Provincial level of Lifesaving Competitions. Practices at this level are increasingly demanding, focusing on establishing swim racing skills, as well as refinement of technical skills in lifesaving skills, event rules and competitions. |
| Athlete Tryouts |
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Ready to dive into lifesaving sport with the Orillia Lifesaving Team? New swimmers must complete a tryout to determine the appropriate division to match their age and skill level prior to registration into the Orillia Lifesaving Team. At minimum, to tryout, swimmers must:
Other skills may be assessed by the Head Coach as part of the tryout to further assess capability and readiness of a division, including not limited to dives, flip turns, working with lifesaving equipment, drill and or interval workout demonstrations. Swimmers may be requested to swim more than the minimum 50m in order to demonstrate the above.
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| Practice & Competition Schedule |
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Fall Practice Schedule
Competition Schedule All members of the team (Bronze, Silver, Gold and the High-Performance Development Group) are eligible to compete in Regional, Provincial and National competitions. The Orillia Lifesaving Team will host 3 competitions for our athletes during the 2025-2026 Season. Local In-house Competitions:
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| Program Policies |
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Like many competitive sports, the Orillia Lifesaving Team abides by a swimmer and parent code of conduct. Please read and review the OLT Parent and Athlete Code of Conduct. The Orillia Lifesaving Team Pool program operates from September to June on a monthly reoccurring cycle and payment plan. Tryouts are scheduled every session for entry at the start of a month. The exception applies to the Fundamentals group which is registered on a sessional basis. Summer programs are held at the waterfront between July and August and train in skills specific for open water skills and competition events. More information is available in May regarding waterfront programs. |
