Registration & Tryout Schedule

The Coquitlam Sharks offers 3 seasonal programs during the year with different registration and tryout opportunities for each of the seasons.

SHARKS SEASON	TRAINING MONTHS	SPORTS OFFERED	TRYOUT INQUIRIES INTAKE	TRYOUT SESSION	QUESTIONS?
SUMMER (core season)	May 1st – early Aug	-Swim -Artistic -Dive -Water Polo	starting Jan 1	March	Dive page diving@coquitlamsharks.org Artistic page artistic@coquitlamsharks.org Water Polo page waterpolo@coquitlamsharks.org Swim page info@coquitlamsharks.org
FALL MAINTENANCE (max. 2 hrs/week)	Sept – early Dec	-Swim -Dive	starting July 1	August	Dive page diving@coquitlamsharks.org Swim page info@coquitlamsharks.org
WINTER MAINTENANCE (max. 2 hrs/week)	Jan – Apr	-Swim -Dive	starting Nov 1	December	Dive page diving@coquitlamsharks.org Swim page info@coquitlamsharks.org

Registration dates
Please refer to our website Special Events, Meets and Registration Calendar during estimated times indicated above for exact registration dates and venues.

New to the Club?

For safety reasons, all our sports have minimum age and eligibility criteria (please see below).

A tryout is required for all athletes interested in joining the Speed Swimming Program. Please see above for tryout inquries intake dates. Tryouts are not required for Artistic, Dive, and Water Polo.

For more detailed sport-specific information, please visit the sport page links in the chart above.

Swim Prerequisites

For Speed Swimming tryouts, please review the minimum requirements carefully. If your child(ren) do not meet these requirements, we will be unable to offer a tryout. Please note that tryout availability is limited and dependent on space each season, so not all requests may be accommodated.

NOTE: Swimmers will be assigned to the appropriate training group by the Sharks Swim Team.

Minimum prerequisites for Mini-Sharks:

5 yrs to 6 yrs (swimmers need to be at least 5 years old by the start of the season)
able to submerge and exhale for 5 seconds
float comfortably on their front and back
swim a minimum of 10m unaided
NO life jacket
flutter kick
can follow instructions
can do a solo jump into water over their head

Minimum prerequisities for Development:

6 yrs to 10 yrs old (swimmers need to be at least 6 years old by the start of the program)
at least Swimmer 4 level
able to swim 25m freestyle and 25m backstroke continuously

Minimum prerequisites for Junior:

8yrs to 14 yrs old (swimmers need to be at least 8 yrs old by the start of the season)
at least Swimmer 7+
comfortable with freestyle, backstroke, breastroke, and foundations of butterfly
able to swim 50-100m continuously

Minimum prerequisites for Intermediate & Senior:

12yrs to 18yrs old
at least Swimmer 9+
able to swim all 4 strokes
Intermediate – a minimum of 100m continous swimming
Senior – a minimum of 200m continuous swimming

Minimum prerequisities for Masters:

18 yrs+
able to swim 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, and breastroke

Re-assessments of any swimmer may be required if:

a swimmer passed a recent tryout but did not register into the current program
a swimmer has not registered into a swim program in the last year

Artistic, Dive, Water Polo

For Artistic Swimming, Water Polo and Diving, previous experience is not required. However swimming skills that allow safe participation in deeper water are required. Please see below:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS for Artistic, Dive, and Water Polo:

must be at least 8 yrs old by the start of the season
able to swim independently in deep water
able to swim a length of the pool (25m) without assistance
able to hold their breath underwater for at least 15 seconds