Swim Lessons

Offering Classes Year Round

The Y’s swim lesson curriculum provides a clear progression track and is designed to help participants reach their goals. If you need additional help in determining your or your child’s swim stage, see our Swim Lesson Selector Chart.
 

Lesson Times to Fit Your Schedule

The Nir Family YMCA offers both morning and evening classes. Select a time that works best for your schedule! We also offer private swim lessons at our Nir Family YMCA and Sampson County YMCA locations. Private lessons allow us to tailor the curriculum to participants' individual needs and provide one-on-one attention. 
 
 

Swim Starters  |  Stages A, B & C

Accompanied by a parent, infants and toddlers learn to be comfortable in the water and develop swim readiness skills through fun and confidence-building experiences.
Ages: 6 Months - 3 Years 
 
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Swim Basics  |  Stages 1, 2, & 3

Students learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning benchmark skills.
Ages: Preschool 3-5 Years, School Age 6 -12 Years, Teen & Adult 13+ Years
 
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Swim Strokes |  Stages 4, 5, & 6

Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity.

Ages: Preschool 3-5 Years, School Age 6-12 Years, Teen & Adult 13+ Years

 

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Private Swim Lessons

Learn to swim one-on-one with an experienced and certified water safety instructor.
Ages: 3+ Years
 
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Foundations (Pre-Competitive Swim Program)

YMCA’s Foundations program is geared towards swimmers who don’t yet have the necessary skill, background, and/or time commitment for a year-round competitive swim team. The program will focus on the fundamentals of swimming, with each level building on the previous one to ensure swimmers are swim meet ready once they make the leap to the competitive side of the pool.
Ages: 5-14 Years

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Contact

Nir Family YMCA 

Group Swim lesons
Allyson Andreoli
(910)251-8196 Ext 235
 
Private Swim lessons
Melissa Arone
(910)251-8196 Ext 250
 

Sampson County YMCA

Katiana Irizarry, Program Coordinator
[email protected]
 
 

Additional Information

Benefits of this approach include:
  • Accommodating students of varying abilities and ages
  • Fostering a sense of achievement and self-confidence
  • Staying grounded in a skill continuum that allows students to move easily from one stage to the next with clearly defined stages of progress along the way. See detailed information on the new skills taught in each of the stages >>
  • Encouraging students to have fun and develop new friendships through group activities
  • Improving communication about student’s progress

Students can register for one of eight stages under our three swim categories depending upon their age and current swim ability.

During lessons each child will have their own kickboard or noodle as needed for the lesson. We will not have extra goggles or toys available. Parents are only required to be in the water for our parent-child Stage A, B and C classes. If a parent does want to get in to help their child alongside the instructor that is perfectly okay. Additionally, there will be no family swim while swim lessons are in the pool. The entire pool will be closed off to just lessons during specific times and the splash pad will be closed too.  We have benches spread out around the pool deck for parents to sit and watch your child enjoy the water! Please know we have limited capacity and we recommend TWO adults PER family MAXIMUM bringing children to the pool for their lessons.