Healthy Lifestyles
Lifeguarding Classes
The Mon Valley YMCA is proud to host the American Red Cross Lifeguarding Course. Classes are run every year in March. Watch for dates and times coming soon.
Guidelines
- Participants must be 15 years of age and a strong swimmer.
- Course covers all lifeguarding skills:
- CPR/AED for the lifeguard
- first aid
- oxygen administration
- disease prevention
- Text book, t-shirt and whistle are included.
- Only lifeguarding skills will be taught in this course, not swimming strokes. All participants must be able to swim the four basic strokes:
- Crawl stroke
- Back stroke
- Breast stroke
- Elementary backstroke
- Participant must be able to attend all classes.