Swim Lessons

Interested in swim lessons for your child or yourself? Pima County offers a variety of American Red Cross swim lessons during the summer swim season. Read through the class descriptions and call the pool nearest you if you have any questions!

Lessons cost $20 for a two-week session (8 classes.)

Please do not mail in registration forms. Registration is taken at the pools. Late registration may be made through the Principal Lifeguard, if openings are available. Registration dates and times are given below. For specific class offerings and times please call your local pool.

Swim lessons at Kino (Mulcahy YMCA) and Thad Terry (Northwest YMCA) pools are through the YMCA. Please call 838-0938 (Kino) or 229-9006 (Thad Terry) for information on swim lessons and fees.

Sessions:
Session I: June 3-June 13, 2013
Session II: June 17-June 27, 2013

Registration for Sessions I and II begins Friday, May 31, 2013 at 7:30 a.m. (Ajo pool swim lesson registration will be on June 1 at 7:30 a.m.), and continues thereafter during open hours. You may register for both Session I and II at this time. If your child progresses to the next skill level between sessions, every effort will be made to accommodate him/her in the next level class.

Sessions:
Session III: July 8-July 18, 2013
Session IV: July 22-August 1, 2013*
*Manzanita Pool session IV will be M-F week 1 and M-W week 2 (ending on July 31 since TUSD goes back to school on August 1)

Registration for Sessions III and IV begins Friday, June 28, 2013 at 7:30 a.m., and continues thereafter during open hours. You may register for both Session III and IV at this time. If your child progresses to the next skill level between sessions, every effort will be made to accommodate him/her in the next level class.

If three or more lessons are cancelled in any given session due to lightning, or mechanical malfunction, lessons will continue past August 1, 2013.

Class Descriptions

Parent and Child Aquatics:
Class for children 6 months to 3 years of age. A parent or guardian accompanies the child into the water. Emphasis is on orienting the child and parent to simple water skills. Water adjustment, development of aquatic motor skills, and safety are the primary focus.

Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills
The objective is to help the students feel comfortable in the water and enjoy the water safely. Elementary aquatics skills and safe practices around the water are taught.

Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Prerequisite: Level 1 certificate or equivalent skills. Emphasis is on success with fundamental skills.

Level 3: Stroke Development
Prerequisite: Level 2 certificate or equivalent skills. Focus on additional guided practice of Level II skills as well as the introduction to more advance skills of butterfly and treading water.

Level 4: Stroke Improvement
Prerequisite: Level 3 certificate or equivalent skills. The objective is to build confidence and endurance with familiar strokes. New strokes include breaststroke, sidestroke, and rotary breathing.

Level 5: Stroke Refinement
Prerequisite: Level 4 certificate or equivalent skills. The objective is coordination and refinement of strokes with an increase in distances and an introduction to flip turns.

Level 6: Swimming and Skill Proficiency.
Prerequisite: Level 5 certificate or equivalent skills. The objective is to refine the strokes so students swim with more ease, efficiency, power, and smoothness over greater distances.

Guard Start:
Lifeguard Readiness is the focus of this course (replaces the Jr. Lifeguard Program.)