Intro to Swimming

Swimming can be dated back to the Stone Age,

but did not truly become

an organized sport until the early _________________.

It was the first association that organized a swimming competition.

• Native Swimming Society of Great Britain

• National Swimming Society of Great Britain

• National Swimming Association of Great Britain

• National Swimming League of Great Britain

It was the first swimming stroke discovered and used upon the native people.

• Dog Crawl

• Freestyle

• Breaststroke

• Backstroke

Based on a stroke used by native South Americans,

the first version of the crawl featured a _________ kick.

In the late 1880s, an Englishman named _________________

travelled to the South Seas, where he saw the natives performing a crawl with a flutter kick.

• Frederick Caville

• Fredrich Caville

• Frederick Campville

• Frederick Cavill

Swimming has featured on the program of all editions of the Olympic Games since _________.

• 1897

• 1986

• 1896

• 1987

The very first Olympic events

were ____________ or _____________.

• backstroke

• freestyle (crawl)

• frog kick

• breaststroke

________________

is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water.

The four strokes used in

Competitive Swimming

• Backstroke

• Butterfly

• Freestyle

• Breaststroke

• Scissor Kick

A

_________

consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke,

ordered as backstroke, breaststroke,

butterfly and freestyle.