Swimming Lessons

The YMCA offers swimming lessons for children six months old through adults.

• Classes run for six weeks.
• Classes for preschool children meet once a week for 30 minutes.
• School age classes meet once a week for 45 minutes.  

Swim Lesson Schedule 2011 - 2012 (6 months old through Adult)

Session	Dates
Winter I	January 9 - February 18, 2012
Winter II	February 27 - April 7, 2012

Registration

Session	Begins	Ends at 5:00pm
Winter II	February 13, 2012	Wed, February 22, 2012

Registration Deadline:
5:00 pm the day listed. After that date as space is available.

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Class Rules and Regulations

1. Registration after deadline as space allows. (Classes missed due to late registration cannot be made up).
2. Swimmers coming for class must sign in at the Welcome Center, then proceed through the locker room for a shower before going to the deck to meet their instructor.
3. Registration over the phone will only be taken with a credit card.
4. Fees Are Not Refundable. A swim credit will be issued if you are unable to take the class. Contact aquatic office within first week of class. Refunds will be issued if the class is cancelled.
5. Do not allow your child to leave valuables unsupervised. Bring a padlock or ask the Youth Desk to hold your items.
6. Class sizes are limited. Register as soon as possible to ensure space.
7. Children not toilet trained must wear a swim diaper or plastic pants over a cloth diaper.
8. Missed classes may not be made up.
9. Preschool children may go through either locker room with a parent.

Program Director: Dana Haan

Fees

Once A Week Non-Member Youth/Child Member Basic Family Member Fitness Family Member

$50.00 $35.00 $30.00 Complimentary with membership

*Private lessons are available. Please call Dana or Emily for details.

Pre-School Schedule

Shrimp/Kipper Mon 6:15-6:45pm Inia/Perch Wed Thur 7:00-7:30pm 7:30-8:00pm Shrimp/Kipper/Inia/Perch Sat 10:00-10:30am Pike Mon Mon Wed Thur Sat Sat 6:30-7:00pm 7:00-7:30pm 6:00-6:30pm 7:00-7:30pm 9:00-9:30am 9:30-10:00am

Eel Mon Wed Sat 6:00-6:30pm 6:15-6:45pm 9:00-9:30am Ray Wed Thur Sat 6:15-6:45pm 7:00-7:30pm 9:30-10:00am

Progressive Schedule

Beginning with Fall I session, Progressive lessons on weeknights will only be held once/week instead of twice/week.

Polliwog Wed Thur Sat 7:00-7:45pm 6:15-7:00pm 8:15-9:00am Guppy Mon Mon Wed Wed Thur Sat Sat 5:30-6:15pm 6:15-7:00pm 5:30-6:15pm 6:15-7:00pm 7:00-7:45pm 8:45-9:30am 10:15-11:00am

Minnow Mon Wed Sat 7:00-7:45pm 7:00-7:45pm 9:30-10:15am Fish/FF/Shark Mon Thur Sat 7:00-7:45pm 6:15-7:00pm 10:15-11:00am

Level Information

Prerequisites For Each Level

Preschool: 6 months - 5 years old

Shrimp & Kippers: Water readiness class. Parents in the water. (6 - 18 months)
Inia/Perch: Begin Pike skills with parents in the water. (19 - 36 months)
Pike: Child is able to listen and follow instructions. Ready for teacher/student discipline. Parent not required in the water.
Eel: Child will submerge. Knows paddle stroke and able to swim width of training pool on own. Will attempt to float on front and back. Parent not required in water.
Ray: Able to swim one length of paddle stroke in Training Pool with float belt. Knows how to float on front and back. Knows kicking on front and back.
Starfish: Completed Ray. Able to swim rudimentary front crawl 20 ft. without a flotation device and 45 ft. with float belt.

Youth, 6 years old and in the first grade or older

Polliwog: Beginning level. No pre-requisites.
Guppy: Knows rhythmic breathing. Can do front and back floats, paddle on front 45 ft. with flotation cube, 15 ft. without cube.
Minnow: Swim front and back crawls 30 ft. with basic form.
Fish: Swim front and back crawls 25 yds. with good form. Have begun breaststroke, sidestroke, and elementary back stroke.
Flying Fish: Swim front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, elementary back and side stroke 50 yds. each. Swim butterfly 15 yds.
Shark: Swim front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, elementary back and side stroke 100 yds. each. Swim butterfly 25 yds.
Adult Beginner: In warm water, learn basic skills to support self; work on skills for swimming on front & back.
Adult Intermediate: Float on front & back; know rhythmic breathing & basic front crawl; fine tune front & back crawl.

About Our Instructors

Utilizing the nationally recognized and accredited YMCA and American Red Cross programs, each YMCA instructor is required to achieve multiple levels of certification to reach instructor status.  Along with their high level of training, each instructor is dedicated to teaching with the basic YMCA principles and practices at heart.