We believe every one should have the skills to safely enjoy the water.
The Y offers a wide range of swimming options for the whole family. Swimming builds self-confidence and develops the whole person – spirit, mind and body. Swimming is not only great exercise and a challenging sport, but it is a life skill. We pride ourselves on our commitment to water safety. We assess you or your child’s swimming abilities, ensuring that each participant is placed in an appropriate class. We insist on lifeguard supervision at all times. Trained instructors emphasize personal safety, swimming skills, endurance and social skills while guiding students with praise and encouragement.
Parent+Child
In Parent+Child Swim Lessons, infants and toddlers are accompanied by their parents as they learn to be comfortable in the water. This is a Swim Starter class.
The focus of this class for children will be to develop swim readiness skills through fun, confidence-building experiences. Parents will also be taught about water safety, drowning prevention, and the importance of supervision. Children should wear a swim diaper under a swimsuit with snug-fitting legs.
SCHEDULE
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Mondays & Wednesdays
5:30pm - 6:00pm
Preschool
In Preschool Swim Lessons, students learn more about personal water safety.
The focus of this class is to achieve competency by mastering two benchmark skills in Swim Basics. The first is swim-float-swim, where students will successfully sequence from a front glide and roll to a back float and roll, do another front glide, then exit. The second benchmark is jump-push-turn-grab. The student’s developmental levels determine which skills we introduce and build on as they progress.
SCHEDULE
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Mondays & Wednesdays 6:15pm - 6:45pm
Saturdays 9:00am-9:30am -
Mondays-Thursdays (2 weeks - Summer Only)
9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am -
Tuesday & Thursdays (4 weeks - Summer Only)
6:10pm, 7:05pm
School Age
In School Age Swim Lessons, students learn additional water safety skills as well as build on their stroke technique.
Students progress through the competencies of Swim Basics into Swim Strokes. Although they’ve mastered the fundamentals, their developmental levels determine which skills we introduce and build on as they progress. Skills developed in Swim Strokes can help prevent chronic diseases, improve social and emotional well-being, increase their cognitive awareness, and foster a lifelong love of physical activity.
SCHEDULE
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Mondays & Wednesdays 7:00pm - 7:45pm
Saturdays 9:45am-10:30am -
Mondays-Thursdays (2 weeks - Summer Only)
9:30am, 10:30am, 11:30am -
Tuesday & Thursdays (4 weeks - Summer Only)
6:10pm, 7:05pm
Adult/Teen Swim Lessons
Adult Swim Lessons at the YMCA are geared towards adults that are learning to swim for the first time.
Adults learn differently and have different expectations coming in to swim lessons. Our classes take place in the evening AFTER the other swim lessons are out of the pool. Instructors help the students conquer their fears to get comfortable in the water and use proven techniques to teach students how to swim. You are never to old to learn how to swim!
SCHEDULE
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Mondays & Wednesdays
8:00pm - 8:45pm
SESSIONS
Mondays & Wednesdays
- Session I: September 6 – September 27
- Session II: October 2 – October 26
- Session III: November 6 – December 6
Saturdays
- Session I: September 9 – October 14
- Session II: October 21 – December 6
THINGS TO REMEMBER
Classes will be cancelled if there is not at least 3 students signed up. A full refund or credit to another session will apply. The Friday prior to swimming lesson, you will be notified if the class does not make.
Proper swim suit attire is required. A swim diaper with elastic around the legs and waist must be worn by participants who are not potty trained.
There are three general categories of Y Swim Lessons:
Swim Starters
Swim Starters develops water enrichment and aquatic readiness in children ages six months to three years. This category focuses on developing swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences. Parents also learn how to supervise children in the water, how to prevent accidents and how to plan for emergencies.
- A / Water Discovery - Introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment
- B / Water Exploration - Focuses on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills
Swim Basics
Swim Basics develops personal water safety and basic swimming skills in students of all ages. Swimmers develop a high level of comfort in the water by practicing safe water habits, engaging in underwater exploration, and learning how to swim to safety and exit if they fall into a body of water.
- 1 / Water Acclimation - Increases comfort with underwater exploration and introduces basic self-recue skills performed with assistance
- 2 / Water Movement - Encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently
- 3 / Water Stamina - Develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages
Swim Strokes
Swim Strokes introduces and refines stroke technique in older students (school age, teens and adults). Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being and foster a lifetime of physical activity.
- 4 / Stroke Introduction - Introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke
- 5 / Stroke Development - Introduces breast-stroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke
- 6 / Stroke Mechanics - Refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle
