Welcome to Diving!
The sport of diving is very unique! It involves the development of athletic skills including strength, stamina, balance and coordination, while at the same time promoting artistic self-expression as the diver’s body moves through the air. Diving is a sport that combines skills from other sports such as gymnastics or trampolining and adds the element of water. Divers must learn to obtain full body control in free space. This sport provides excellent opportunities for individuals to develop a broad range of athletic, artistic, and personal life skills such as goal-setting, concentration and risk taking in a supportive environment.
Cruisers Aquatics is a summer aquatics club, meaning our main season runs from May 1st through the middle of August. In the fall and winter we offer maintenance programs where divers can practice once a week.
In addition to the regular practice sessions, there are several optional competitions throughout the summer months, where divers have an opportunity to compete in one-meter and three-meter springboard events. These competitions are open to divers at all levels and Cruiser divers are encouraged, though by no means obligated or pressured, to participate in any or all of the competitions.
Children starting at the age of eight are welcome as long as they have the maturity to follow instructions and are comfortable swimming unassisted in deep water.
In the Cruisers diving program, junior and senior divers train to perform dives from all the dive groups, including forward, backward, reverse, inward and twisting dives.
Dive Groups
Junior vs senior
While divers are generally grouped by age and within the practices, divers are grouped together based on ability. Coaches design personalized training plans with appropriate progressions so each diver feels challenged and can work towards achieving personal goals.
Junior: For athletes ages 9 & under
Senior: For athletes ages 10 & older
In both junior and senior groups, divers will be grouped together based on ability and will work on the following (depending on the skill level):
Basic skills: safety, positions, take offs and entries
Front and back jumps
Dives
Hurdles
Proper positioning on the 1m and 3m
Practices
All practices and scheduling can be found on our Cruisers Calendar. Divers are welcome to attend as many practices as their group allows. There is no minimum or maximum practice requirement, but we do encourage divers to find a level of attendance that works for them and their families.
POOLS
Cruisers Aquatics has pool time across the North Shore. When you look at the calendar, in addition to times, it will also list the pool location for each practice.
Ron Andrews Community Recreation Centre: 931 Lytton St, North Vancouver
West Vancouver Community Centre: 2121 Marine Drive, West Vancouver
Meets
Meets are a fun way for divers to show off their skills! Five judges will score each dive on a scale of 1-10 then the lowest and highest score is dropped and the median scores are added up, along with each dive total score for one final result.
Cruisers - June 9 Dive Meet - results
Hootenanny - July 7 - results
Coquitlam Sharks - results
V&D Regionals - results
headcoach.dive@cruisersaquatics.com director.dive@cruisersaquatics.com