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Lifeguard Training & Review Courses⚠️ Spring 2025 Courses Are Full
Please check back in Winter 2025 for Spring 2026 course offerings.
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🛟 Spring 2025 American Red Cross Lifeguard Training
Includes First Aid, CPR, AED, and Deep Water
Format: Online + In-Person (Classroom & Pool)🔹 Prerequisites & Requirements
- Minimum Age: 15 by the final session of selected course
- Online course work completed PRIOR to first day of class
- Swimming Skills Evaluation (both must be successfully completed):
- Swim-Tread-Swim Sequence (complete without stopping to rest)
➤Jump in, totally submerge, resurface
➤Swim 150 yards (front crawl, breaststroke, or combination of both)
➤ Swim goggles are allowed
➤Maintain position at surface of water for 2 minutes by treading water using legs only
➤Swim 50 more yards (front crawl, breaststroke, or combination of both)
⚠️Swimming on back or side is not permitted for swimming portions of this skill - Timed Brick Retrieval (1 min 40 sec)
➤Starting in the water, swim 20 yards
➤Face may be in or out of the water
➤Goggles are not allowed
➤ Surface dive (feet-first or head-first) to a depth of 7–10 feet to retrieve a 10-lb object
➤ Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on your back to return to the starting point while holding the object at he surface with both hands and keeping the face out at or near the surface.
➤Exit water without using a ladder or steps
- Swim-Tread-Swim Sequence (complete without stopping to rest)
- Attendance: Students must attend all sessions of their selected course (either all days in April or all days in May) and bring food/drink for breaks.
💲 Cost: $350
📅 Spring 2025 Lifeguard Training Schedule (pool addresses below)April Course (must attend all days)
- Fri, April 11 | 5–9 p.m. | CB East
- Sat, April 12 | 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. | CB East
- Sun, April 13 | 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. | CB South
May Course (must attend all days)
- Fri, May 16 | 5–9 p.m. | CB East
- Sat, May 17 | 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. | CB East
- Sun, May 18 | 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m. | CB South
🖥️ Register via My Payments Plus (see instructions below)
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🔁 Spring 2025 American Red Cross Lifeguard Review Courses
Format: Online + In-Person (Classroom & Pool)
🔹 Prerequisites & Requirements
- For currently certified lifeguards (current Red Cross Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED certification required)
- Online course work completed PRIOR to start of class
- Swimming Skills Evaluation (same as skills listed above for lifeguarding course)
- Attendance: Students must attend full time of their selected course.
🧰 Bring your own mask and food/drink for breaks.
💲 Cost: $175
🧰 Bring your own mask and food/drink for breaks.
📅 Spring 2025 Lifeguard Review Schedule (pool addresses below)
April Review- Sun, April 13 | 8:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | CB South
May Review #1
- Sun, May 18 | 8:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. | CB South
May Review #2 (must attend both days)
- Fri, May 16 | 6–9 p.m. | CB East
- Sat, May 17 | 11 a.m.–6 p.m. | CB East
🖥️ Register via My Payments Plus (see instructions below) - For currently certified lifeguards (current Red Cross Lifeguarding/First Aid/CPR/AED certification required)
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💸 Refund Policy
- Failure of any prerequisite and/or course requirement does not validate a refund/credit.
- Failure to attend an in-person skills session will result in no refund and not passing the course.
- All course requirements must be completed to pass, including completing required online training PRIOR to the first class. It is suggested that you complete this well in advance.
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🧭 Pool Addresses
CB East High School Pool
2804 Holicong Road
Doylestown, PACB South High School Pool
1100 Folly Road
Warrington, PA
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🖥️ How to Register/Pay via My Payments Plus
If you already have an account:
- Click the red My Payments Plus link below
- Log in
- Select Events & Activities
- Click Show Filters
- Select Aquatics > choose the correct American Red Cross lifeguard course
If you have a CB student but no account:
- Get your child’s Student ID from the Parent Portal
- Click the red link below
- Select Register Now
- Select PA > Central Bucks School District
- Create an account and choose “I am a parent or guardian with student(s) in Central Bucks School District”
- Select Events & Activities
- Click Show Filters
- Select Aquatics > choose the correct American Red Cross lifeguard course
- This will only allow you to register your CB student. If you are registering other children who are not currently enrolled in CB, you will have to create a guest account for them.
If you are a guest (no CB student and no account):
- Click the red link below
- Select Register now
- Select PA > Central Bucks School District
- Create an account and choose “I’m a guest interested in district activities and/or I want to support the district”
- Create your account and register
- Select Events & Activities
- Click Show Filters
- Select Aquatics > choose the correct American Red Cross lifeguard course