In accordance with US Rowing safety guidelines, all AARC rowers and scullers (excluding private boat owners) must pass a swim test. No rower or sculler will be allowed on the water in an AARC boat unless she or he has completed the simple swim test and submitted the signed form. Without a successfully completed swim test, participants must wear a life vest.

The swim test consists of staying afloat wearing long pants (or sweat pants) and a t-shirt for five minutes, putting on a life vest in the water, and swimming 50 yards (2 lengths of most public pools).

Download a swim test form, print it out, and take it to any public pool where a Red Cross-certified lifeguard is on duty. Ask the guard to observe that you can do the tasks. When you are finished, ask them to sign the form for you.

Learn To Row Participants: Swim test forms need to be completed by the SECOND DAY OF CLASS. Please bring it with you to your first or second class.

Learn To Scull Participants: You must bring the test with you to the first session in order to participate.

Club Scullers, Open and AdComp Rowers: You must have a swim test on file in order to row. Returning members and previous LTR graduates probably already have one on file. New members must bring one the first day they row.

Local Pools

Ann Arbor Public Pools

Website: http://www.a2gov.org/government/communityservices/ParksandRecreation/Pools/Pages/default.aspx
Phone:(734) 994-4263 (Fuller Pool), (734) 994-2898 (Mack Pool)

Saline Recreational Complex

Website: http://www.ci.saline.mi.us/parks/Rec%20Center
Phone: (734) 429-3502

Ann Arbor YMCA

Website: http://www.annarborymca.org
Phone: (734) 996-9622
(by appointment only, contact aquatic director Liz Trapp by e-mail etrapp@annarborymca.org)