Costs Per Session
2 Week Session 4 Week Session Saturday Sessions
YMCA Member: $22.50 $40.00 $35.00
Non-Member: $32.50 $65.00 $53.00
Program fees are per session / per child
There is a $5 late fee for sign ups on the session start day or later
Levels of Instruction
Skips: (Ages 6 months to 3 years of age)
A water adjustment class for parents and their young children.
Pike: (Ages 3 to 5 years of age)
For beginners, sets the stage for the water experience and begins to learn the basics of side breathing, floats, and the front and back crawl.
Eel/Ray: (Ages 3 to 5 years of age)
Advanced, for children without fear of putting their faces in the water. This class emphasizes stroke development for children able to propel themselves up to ten feet unassisted.
Polliwog: (Ages 6 to 14 years of age)
Older beginners will gain confidence in the water and begin to learn the basics of side breathing, floats, and the front and back crawl.
Guppy: (Ages 6 to 14 years of age)
Intermediate swimmers will practice front and back crawl, refine rotary breathing, and be introduced to breaststroke.
Minnow: (Ages 6 to 14 years of age)
Advanced intermediate swimmers will refine strokes and work on endurance.
Fish Fly: (Ages 6 to 14 years of age)
Advanced swimmers work on stroke technique, are introduced to butterfly, and improves endurance.
Teen/Adult: (Ages 14 years and up)
Beginner: Little or no water experience. Learns floating (back and front), introduction of freestyle and elementary backstroke.
Intermediate: Refines freestyle and elementary backstroke. Learns sidestroke, breaststroke and deep-water swimming.
Instructor to Student Ratios
1:10 - Skip
1:4 - Pike
1:6 - Eel/Ray through Teen/Adult