Private Swimming Lessons
Private swim lessons are a setting in which a participant works one-on-one with an instructor carrying out goals set forth by the participant and/or the participant’s family.
Various settings are available to meet the needs of our participants.
INSTRUCTORS
Kristi C
Age: 23
What I love about teaching: I love creating relationships with the kids I teach. Having a good relationship makes swim lessons more enjoyable and facilitates progress in the lessons. Additionally, I love watching kids become more confident in the water. Watching a student make progress is always exciting.
What I love teaching: I love to teach kids that are learning to swim for the first time and may not be completely comfortable in the water yet. I also love to teach stroke improvement to those who want to refine their skills more (especially on front stroke, backstroke, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke).
General Availability: can begin after Dec 16; very flexible
What Kristi can teach: TRADITIONAL
Anita K
Age: 20
What I Love about Teaching Mermaid Lessons: Giving kids an opportunity to experience how it feels to be part fish for a day
General Availability: Mon-Fri 4-8pm; Sat and Sun afternoons
What Anita can teach: MERMAID
Brianna M
Age: 16
What I love about teaching: I enjoy watching the children improve and being able to help them grow as swimmers.
What I love to teach: Level 1 and above
General Availability: Sundays
What Brianna can teach: GROUP and TRADITIONAL
Alyssa B
Age: 16
What I love about teaching: What I love about teaching is being able to get to know different children and be able to watch them learn, overcome, and concur new swimming skills.
What I love to teach: I enjoy teaching level 1- level 4 because I feel I am able to connect better with these children to better swimming stroke performance.
General Availability: flexible Mondays-Fridays; around high school swim schedule
What Alyssa can teach: GROUP and TRADITIONAL
Therese T
Age: 45
What I love about teaching: …is sharing my absolute love of the water with the kids, and seeing them gain confidence and ability! Being in the pool feels like home to me. I'm honored to help families stay safe while enjoying all kinds of water and water activities.
What I love to teach: I really enjoy watching preschoolers explore the water, and learn their first skills. I'm also fond of teaching adaptive classes for kids and adults with special needs. I have experience working with this community, and am excited to bring it to swim lessons. I have competitive swim experience, as well. And feel confident teaching any age, level, or stroke.
General Availability: Saturday Mornings only
What Therese can teach: GROUP, TRADITIONAL, and ADAPTIVE
Carissa L
Age: 16
What I love about teaching: Teaching swimming comes naturally to me, and I enjoy helping kids feel confident and proud of themselves after they swim! Teaching kids new skills in the water is exciting not only for them, but for me when I see everything that they have accomplished.
What I love to teach: I am willing to work with swimmers of any age and experience to accomplish their goals! As a competitive swimmer myself, I love teaching kids all of the strokes, turns, and starts used during races.
General Availability: Around high school swimming schedule; weekdays vary. Saturdays and Sundays not available.
What Carissa can teach: GROUP and TRADITIONAL
Kristen O
Age: 18
What I love about teaching: I love teaching because I get to watch swimmers learn new skills and grow to love swimming more. I enjoy seeing the progress each participant makes.
What I love to teach: I love teaching younger children because of their enthusiasm to learn new skills
General Availability: Flexible Monday-Saturday; unavailable Wednesdays
What Kristen can teach: GROUP and TRADITIONAL
Kathy T
Age: 60
What I love about teaching: I love teaching because I enjoy observing a child as they become comfortable in the water and begin to enjoy playing/swimming in the water. It is fun to watch them realize they can float and accomplish swimming skills.
What I love to teach: I love to teach the parent child classes. It’s so fun to work with the parents and teach them how to work with their children in the water. I also enjoy working with older youth, scouts(merit badge counselor) and adults. Teaching them to be confident in the water as well as developing their skills and endurance.
General Availability: flexible for most week days, some evenings
What Kathy can teach: GROUP, TRADITIONAL, and PERSONAL FITNESS
Denise R
Age: 45
What I love about teaching: I love to be working through the skills with participants and then after their efforts they understand ans just get it! I love to watch their face beam with pride and excitement of what they've just accomplished!
What I love teaching: Participants of all ages and abilities
General availability: Monday and Wednesday late afternoon/evenings
What Denise can teach: ADAPTIVE