Accompanied by a parent*, infants and toddlers learn to be comfortable in the water and develop swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences, while parents learn about water safety, drowning prevention, and the importance of supervision.

STAGE A | WATER DISCOVERY introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment.

STAGE B | WATER EXPLORATION focuses on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills.

*We know families take a variety of forms, so we define parent broadly to include all adults with primary responsibility for raising children, including biological parents, adoptive parents, guardians, stepparents, grandparents, or any other type of parenting relationship.

Students learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills:

- Swim, float, swim - sequencing front glide, roll, back float, roll, front glide, and exit

- Jump, push, turn, grab

STAGE 1 | WATER ACCLIMATION increases comfort with underwater exploration and introduces basic self-rescue skills performed with assistance.

STAGE 2 | WATER MOVEMENT encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently.

STAGE 3 | WATER STAMINA develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than in previous stages.

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.

STAGE 4 | STROKE INTRODUCTION introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke.

STAGE 5 | STROKE DEVELOPMENT introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke.

STAGE 6 | STROKE MECHANICS refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.

REGISTRATION | All registrations will be on a first come, first serve basis. Swim lesson participants may designate a preferred instructor during registration; however, that does not guarantee you will be paired with that instructor for your lessons.