Junior Lifeguard Camps

Calling all children ages 8 to 15!

Registration is now open for the Texas Pool’s Junior Lifeguard Camps from July 21-26, 2025. 

• Learn and practice real lifeguard skills
• Make lifelong friends while practicing team building
• Explore a great career that you can keep through high school, college, and beyond
• Begin CPR training and first responder protocol

What’s Included

The camp price includes 6 hours of class time for Guppy and Discovery Guards and 11 hours of class time for Junior Guards, as well as a camp t-shirt and Saturday Olympics awards. Not only does this year’s camp shirt look great, it gets you into the pool for free for the rest of the summer! (You have to be wearing your shirt when you check in.)

Special $40 Membership Opportunity

For camp week, families of camp participants who are not already Texas Pool members also have the option to purchase a week-long special membership for $40, so they can stay and swim during the younger camp groups. You will be able to use your special membership during the entire camp week whenever the pool is open to the public. The membership will expire the Sunday following camp.

Waitlist

Space is limited, so register before it’s too late! Once the classes are full, you can contact Amanda Christensen at [email protected] to get on a waitlist in case there are any cancellations or added dates.

Skills Taught and Practiced

(appropriate age adaptations for younger participants)

Rescue Skills

• Slide-In Entry
• Stride and Compact Jumps
• Simple Assist
• Extension Assist from the Deck
• Reaching Assist with Equipment
• Throwing Assist
• Swimming Extension Rescue
• Active and Passive Drowning Victim Rear Rescue
• Two-Person Removal from the Water
• Using a Backboard
• Passive Submerged Victim—Shallow Water
• Multiple-Victim Rescue
• Feet-First Surface Dive
• Submerged Victim—Shallow Water
• Front and Rear Head-Hold Escape

Rescue Strokes and Water Skills

• Rescue Approach—Front Crawl or Breaststroke
• Side stroke
• Elementary Backstroke
• Treading Water
• Diving brick retrieval (deep water)

Caring for Head, Neck, or Back Injury Skills

• Manual In-Line Stabilization for a Head, Neck or Back Injury on Land—Lying
• Down, Sitting, or Standing
• Using a Backboard for a Standing Victim on Land
• Head Splint Technique—Face-Up Victim, Shallow Water at or Near Surface
• Head Splint Technique—Face-Down Victim, Shallow Water at or Near Surface
• Stabilization for a Submerged Victim—Face-Up, Face-Down or on One Side
• Using a Backboard in Shallow Water

CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Skills

• Removing Gloves
• Initial Assessment
• Rescue Breathing—Adult, Child, and Infant
• Conscious Choking—Adult, Child, and Infant
• CPR—Adult, Child, and Infant

First Aid Skills

• Secondary Assessment
• Controlling External Bleeding
• Applying a Sling and Binder
• Applying an Anatomic Splint
• Applying a Soft Splint