Swim Lessons

Fees

• 50-Minute Sessions: Students $65, Employees $80, Guests $90
• 30-Minute (PCA Only): Students $35, Employees $50, Guests $60

Refund Notice

• 100% 14 days before class
• 50% 8-13 days before class
• No refund one week before class

• Vehicle make, model and plate number will be collected during the registration process
• Parking pass will be waiting for you in the Campus Rec office on the date of your first lesson (If lesson begins at 5pm or later, you will not need a parking pass and can park in any lot without being ticketed). 
• Must park in one of the 3 assigned lots (Campus Rec Lot, Softball Lot, One Stop Visitors lot)
• Click here to download a parking map. 

Parent and Child Aquatics (PCA): For 6-months to 3 years old 

Parents and children learn together to increase a child’s comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills. This class is fun filled and helps introduce water safety concepts, encouraging healthy recreational habits.  

Preschool Aquatics (PRE): For 3- to 5-year-olds  

• Level 1: Introduces basic water skills which children progress through levels 2 and 3. This level is a good starting point for kids who are fearful of the water.  
• Level 2: Further develops basic water skills. Children will perform the skills from level 1 but a further distance. This is when kids start to first try some skills independently. This level is for kids who can’t swim but are not fearful of the water.  
• Level 3: Increase the child’s proficiency in the previously learned skills by increasing the distance and time skills are performed. This level’s goal is to perform all skills independently.  
• Please note that all these classes happen at the same time so we can easily sort kids into the right group on the first day.  

Learn-to-Swim (LTS): For 6-year-olds to teens 
Designed to help participants achieve maximum success, Learn-to-Swim courses are based on a logical, six-level progression that helps swimmers of varying ages and abilities develop their water safety, survival, and swim skills. 

• Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills. Helps participants feel comfortable in the water and includes skills such as entry/exit, floating, supported gliding, and basic water safety rules. The goal is for your child to be comfortable going underwater and swimming a short distance on their stomach.  
• Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills. Participants continue to build basic skills including breath-holding, retrieving objects, swimming longer distances, front and back floating without support, and personal safety and rescue skills.
• Level 3: Stroke Development. Builds on skills in Level 2 and includes deep-water skills, diving from a kneeling position, building endurance, treading water, and flutter and dolphin kicks.
• Level 4: Stroke Improvement. Focuses on improving the different swimming strokes.  Builds other water skills such as swimming underwater, treading water for longer periods of time and diving. This class will help prepare participants for a swim team or our Swim Express Camp.
• Level 5: Stroke Refinement. Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes. Includes skills such as sculling, stride jump entry, tuck and pike surface dives, and front and back flip turns while swimming. This class is a great way for competitive swimmers to refine their strokes.  

Adult Swim: For teens to adults 

The American Red Cross Adult Swim Program is intended for teens and adults who wish to improve their aquatic knowledge and skills. This class has a wide skill range. The instructor will group participants by level and then float between everyone giving practice and feedback. Participants range from fearful and wanting to learn the basics to improving their lap swimming

Class Descriptions

Parent and Child Aquatics (PCA): For 6-months to 3-year-olds
Parents and children learn together to increase a child’s comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills. The two levels are fun filled and help introduce water safety concepts, encouraging a healthy recreational habit.

• Level 1: Basic skills of buoyancy on front and back, entries and exits, and submersions are taught to parents and children to help orient them to the water and to help them develop a level of comfort in the water.
• Level 2: Builds upon the skills learned in Level 1 and provides experiences and activities to develop advanced skills without support from parents.

Preschool Aquatics (PRE): For 3- to 5-year-olds
Throughout the three levels, preschool-age children are taught basic aquatic safety and progressive swimming skills while increasing their comfort level in and around the water with age-appropriate skills.

• Level 1: Orients children to the aquatic environment and helps them gain basic aquatic skills.
• Level 2: Helps children gain greater independence in their skills and develop more comfort in and around the water.
• Level 3: Helps children start to gain basic swimming propulsive skills to be comfortable in and around water.

Learn-to-Swim (LTS): For 6-year-olds to teens
Designed to help participants achieve maximum success, Learn-to-Swim courses are based on a logical, six-level progression that helps swimmers of varying ages and abilities develop their water safety, survival, and swim skills.

• Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills. Helps participants feel comfortable in the water and includes skills such as entry/exit, floating, supported gliding, and basic water safety rules.
• Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills. Gives participants success with fundamental skills including breath-holding, retrieving objects, combined stroke, front and back floating with minimal support, and personal safety and rescue skills.
• Level 3: Stroke Development. Builds on skills in Level 2 and includes deep-water skills, diving from a kneeling position, back and survival floats, treading water, and flutter and dolphin kicks (no support).
• Level 4: Stroke Improvement. Develops confidence in skills learned and improves other aquatic skills such as swimming underwater and various strokes (elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke, and butterfly).
• Level 5: Stroke Refinement. Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes. Includes skills such as sculling, stride jump entry, tuck and pike surface dives, and front and back flip turns while swimming.
• Level 6: Swimming and Skill Proficiency. Refines the strokes so participants swim them with ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances. Level 6 is designed with “menu” options that focus on preparing participants for more advanced courses. Options include Fitness Swimming, Personal Water Safety, and Fundamentals of Diving.

Adult Swim: For teens to adults
The American Red Cross Adult Swim Program is intended for teens and adults who wish to improve their aquatic knowledge and skills. There are three Adult Swim courses offered:

• Learning the Basics
• Improving Skills and Swimming Strokes
• Swimming for Fitness

• Vehicle make, model and plate number will be collected during the registration process
• Parking pass will be waiting for you in the Campus Rec office on the date of your first lesson (If lesson begins at 5pm or later, you will not need a parking pass and can park in any lot without being ticketed). 
• Must park in one of the 3 assigned lots (Campus Rec Lot, Softball Lot, One Stop Visitors lot)

Click here to download a parking map.