We are currently hiring Lifeguards!

Training and certification provided. Please call the YMCA if you are interested.

Lifeguard Training

Lifeguards keep our community safe. Learn lifesaving skills to ensure patron safety and protect lives. Minimum age: 15 years old on or before the final scheduled session. Prerequisite swim test must be completed for course participation.

Red Cross Lifeguard Prerequisite:

1. Enter water above your head, swim 150 yards of either freestyle or breaststroke. After 150 yards, stop swimming and tread water without use of your hands for 2 minutes. Stop treading and swim 50 yards of either freestyle or breaststroke.
2. Complete a timed event within 1 minute, 40 seconds: Starting in the water, swim 20 yards without goggles, surface dive, feet-first or head-first in the deep end to retrieve a 10-pound object. Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on the back to return to the starting point with both hands holding the object and keeping the face at or near the surface. Exit the water without using a ladder or steps.

*Participants must attend all sessions and demonstrate competency in required skills, scenarios, and written exam for certification.