What is it?
In regional WA, women lead mainly land-based lives, rarely encountering water. This lack of familiarity can affect their ability to enjoy water activities safely, especially when on holiday near water. This, in turn, perpetuates a cycle of generational non-swimmers in their children.
This project empowers regional and country women and girls to engage in swimming to break this cycle, and engage in the physical activity of swimming for recreation!
What are the details?
We will be offering swimming sessions at specific regional locations three times to deliver focused activities for women in the ocean or your nearest regional pool. Swimmers will be divided into groups based on their abilities and everyone is welcome!
Locations
Monday, November 18th
- Koombana Bay Foreshore, Bunbury
Session: 9:00 – 10:00 - Collie Mineworkers Memorial Pool, 87 Throssell St, Collie
Session: 12:30 – 13:30 - Gnowangerup Sports & Recreational Centre, Gnowangerup
Session: 17:00 – 18:00
Tuesday, November 19th
- Katanning Aquatic Centre, Park Street, Katanning
Session: 6:30 – 7:30 - Kojonup Swimming Pool, Benn Parade, Kojonup
Session: 10:00 – 11:00 - Mount Barker
Session: 14:30 – 15:30
Wednesday, November 20th
- Emu Point, 4 Cunningham St, Emu Point
Session 1: 7:00 – 8:00 - Emu Point, 4 Cunningham St, Emu Point
Session 2: 9:30 – 10:30
Thursday, November 21st
- Greens Pool, William Bay Road, Denmark
Session: 7:00 – 8.00 - Bridgetown Swimming Pool, Steere Street, Bridgetown
Session: 14:00 – 15:00
What’s New This Time?
We will be introducing new online resources to help you set a personal swimming goal. From November through March, we’ll support you with training tips, online resources, and regular updates to help you reach your goal.
The goal for everyone is to ‘Swim Around It!’ and you pick the thing you swim around. Whether you aim to swim around your local pool, the swimming nets, the Busselton Jetty or even your local secret spot, we’re here to help you make it happen!
We can’t wait to reconnect and see you make progress. Reserve your spot, bring a friend, and let’s go swimming!
Those who can swim will receive technique support to enhance their stroke, while beginners will learn essential skills to build confidence in the water. Post-session, we will provide tea and coffee, and encourage you to stay and have a chat together.
What you’ll do
This She Can Swim class is for you:
If you can’t swim we will help you build confidence and show you things you can practice that will help you on your journey to call yourself a swimmer
If you can swim we will show you some nifty ideas to help you improve enabling you to swim faster with more finesse and have more fun in the process.
Two coaches will be in attendance for each session so please don’t feel you are ‘too’ anything as in too slow, too fast, too sinky, too afraid, too busy!!!
We cannot wait to bring Swimming Women to these new pools and look forward to having some fun as we share our love of water.
If you have time we would love you to stick around after for a cuppa and if you cant that’s ok we understand at least we got to see you in the water.
There is no cost for this session however normal pool entry fees will apply.