Parent and Child: stages A/B
6 months to 3 years old. Water Discovery and Exploration
Accompanied by a parent, Infants and Toddlers will 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. Children will focus on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills.
(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.)
YMCA Swim Lessons
Preschool 3-5 yrs-stages 1-4, School Age 5-12 yrs-stages 1-6, Teen & Adult 12+ yrs-stages 1-6.
Students will learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning benchmark skills. They will focus on water acclimation, water movement, and water stamina in stages 1, 2, and 3.
In stages 4, 5, and 6, 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.
Swim Team
Ages 5-17 yrs
Monday and Wednesday evenings 4:00pm-6:15pm
Tiger Sharks is a competitive swim team that focuses on teamwork, sportsmanship, achievement, and fun! In order to participate, they must be able to swim the length of the pool (25 yards) without assistance. Participants should also have basic knowledge of swim strokes and skills such as; freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and butterfly.
American Red Cross Lifeguarding Course
Must be 15 years old on or before the final session of the course, be able to swim 300 yards continuously, tread water for 2 minutes, complete a timed event within 1 minute 40 seconds.
The purpose of the Red Cross Lifeguarding course is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries, and sudden illnesses until EMS personnel take over. This course will offer First Aid/CPR/AED courses to meet various training needs.