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The Upper Valley Aquatic Center will be running the SwimAmerica learn to swim programs on a year- round basis.
SwimAmerica - the USA's leading Learn-to-Swim School - teaches with the most effective method known, using a progression developed by this nation's top swim coaches. Our goal is to teach your child to swim quickly, proficiently and to learn to love swimming for health, safety, fun and fitness. Students advance at their own pace from water adaptation to very advanced swimming skills.
We teach swimming the right way the first time, by focusing on the fundamentals that create technically sound swimming of all four competitive strokes.
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With SwimAmerica, water safety comes first! SwimAmerica lesson plans are designed to teach the critical swim skills your child needs to be safe in and around the water for a lifetime. Our swim programs emphasize safety skills and the ability to swim a minimum of 300 yards of freestyle.
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Take a minute and check out our site and all the great programs we offer. At UVAC, we have something for everyone!
Please call Program Registrar Molly Nygaard at 802.296.2850 x 106 or email molly@uvac-swim.org if you have any questions. Please see below for all schedule and program information.
Fall Program Registration now open!
We will start a new 6-week program the week of Sept 20.
(See below for the full schedule)
1. Please download the Registration Form.
Current and New Students: Click here for the Registration Form.
Forms are also available at the UVAC Welcome Desk.
2. Station: Please read class curriculum below to determine the appropriate station for your child. If you would like to speak to someone about your child's ability or have an evaluation before the start of the session, please email molly@uvac-swim.org or call 802.296.2850 x106.
3. Finalize Enrollment: We will do our best to accommodate your 1st choice for lessons, but please make sure to include contact information in the case we need to call or email for a 2nd choice option.
Please drop off or mail your form to the Upper Valley Aquatic Center at least 1 week before start of a new session. We accept checks, or cash. You will receive an email receipt before the start of the session with your payment confirmation and assigned class day/time. Mailing address: UVAC Attn: Swim Lessons PO Box 1198, White River Junction, VT 05001
For any other registration questions, please email molly@uvac-swim.org.
Dates:
Session 5: September 20 - October 30 (Forms due by Sept. 13)
Session 6: November 1 - December 18* (Forms due by Oct. 25)
*Session 6: no class week of Thanksgiving
All sessions are 6 weeks, with 30 minute lessons each day. Please choose to come to class 1 or 2 times a week.
Group Lessons:
Ages: 5+
Days/Times: (All Stations offered at all times unless noted).
Tues: 3:30, 4:05, 4:40
Wed: 4:05, 4:40, 5:15
Thurs: 3:30, 4:05, 4:40
Sat: 9:00**, 9:35 (**Stations 3-5 only at 9:00)
Parent and Me
Ages: 6 months - under 3 years old
Days/Times:
Mon or Wed: 8:30, 10:15
Tues or Thurs: 9:00, 9:35
Sat: 8:25, 9:00
Preschool
Ages: 3 - 4 years
Days/Times:
Preschool 1: (For 3-5 year olds with little experience in water, timid learners).
Tues, Wed, Thurs AM: 9:00
Tues or Thurs PM: 3:00
Sat: 8:25
Preschool 2: (For 3-5 year olds with some experience in water, comfortable putting face in water).
Tues, Wed, Thurs AM: 9:35, 10:10
Tues or Thurs PM: 3:30
Sat: 9:00
6 Lessons:
*Member Non-Resident: $54
*Member Resident: $48
Non-Member Non-Resident: $90
Non-Member Resident: $84
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12 Lessons:
*Member Non-Resident: $98
*Member Resident: $86
Non-Member Non-Resident: $170
Non-Member Resident: $158
(*Membership rate for children in a family membership ONLY. Parent & Me children exempt).
Kids progress faster with more swimming. We highly recommend coming to lessons twice a week. To encourage learning, you will receive $10 off the second day of lessons!
We reserve the right to cancel or consolidate class if enrollment minimums are not met. You will be notified before the session starts if we are unable to offer a specific station or class. We will also do our best to accommodate your 1st choice class time, but in some cases will need your child to move into another class time.
Refund and Make-up Policy: We will have make-up lessons only if classes are cancelled due to holiday or pool closures.
The benefits of program participation are provided to everyone in the Upper Valley, including those with and without disabilities. Please let us know when you register if you need assistance to participate due to disability. You are also welcome to contact our Executive Director Andrea Ciardelli at 802.296.2850 extension 103 to discuss your participation.
UVAC Swim Academy
The mission of the Upper Valley Aquatic Center is to teach infants, children and adults how to swim in a safe and fun environment.
SwimAmerica is a national learn to swim program operated by the American Swimming Coaches Association at over 900 sites across the USA. The Upper Valley Aquatic Center is the only location in the Upper Valley to have the most state of the art learn to swim program in existence today. Brought to you by the same people who have brought you the most successful sport team on the planet... the USA Olympic Swimming Team. What is learned teaching people to set world records is used teach new swimmers to enjoy swimming with the best techniques in the world. Thus, the program organizes fundamental elements of swimming into ten stations described below. (www.swimamerica.org)
SwimAmerica, has high standards. These are the only lessons that will save your child’s life. Knowing how to swim means that a person can maintain themselves indefinitely in the water. To do so requires the ability to exhale used air and inhale new air. That's called Aerobic Swimming. (just like being able to talk while you jog!) Our standard is that a person should be able to swim 300 yards non-stop, and swim 6 different styles of swimming, to be considered a "swimmer." 300 yards is important. Scientists have found that humans can swim 200 yards without being able to breathe effectively. But without the ability to breathe effectively, eventually that person will get in trouble, and possibly endanger their life. SwimAmerica went 1/3 beyond that point to set the standard of 300 yards of non-stop swimming. That goal won't be quickly achieved. It takes time. But it can save your child's life. That's worth the investment of time. After all, learning to swim is a LIFETIME GIFT. (www.swimamerica.org).
The SwimAmerica staff is comprised of a team of highly trained and dedicated professional coaches.
From the very beginning, our coaches emphasize proper stroke mechanics in a fun, loving way. They recognize what it takes to learn to swim well and celebrate every achievement. Watch your child's self-esteem flourish as they receive hard earned recognition from our enthusiastic staff.
Program Curriculum
Sign up for Preschool 1 if your swimmer is under 5 and a non-swimmer or timid in the water. Sign up for Preschool 2 if your swimmer is under 5 and has some experience in the water/is comfortable putting face in the water.
Sign up for Level 1 if your swimmer is 5+ and a non-swimmer.
Skills to be learned include gradual water adaptation, breath holding and release, submersion of the face, opening eyes underwater, blowing bubbles, wall bobs with bubbles and air exchange. The advancement goal for this station is 10 relaxed bobs.
Sign up for Level 2 if your swimmer is 5+ years old and has the ability to place head underwater and do 10 consecutive bobs.
Skills to be learned include independent front and back float and recover, front and back streamlined glide and recover, jumping bobs and streamline bobs. To reach the advancement goals for this station, students must complete a five second glide and recover on both their back and front.
Sign up for Level 3 if your swimmer is 5+ and can do a front float and back float independently.
Skills to be learned include front and back glide, kick and recover, dolphin kick, glide and recover, porpoising. To reach the advancement goals for this station, students must kick on their front and back for 15ft.
Sign up for Level 4 is your swimmer is 5+ and has mastered front and back float and kick independently
Skills to be learned include roll overs from front to back and back to front, finning and sculling, side-glide-kick, crawl armstroke, somersaults forward and back. The advancement goals for the stations are demonstration of side-glide-kick for 20 ft. and crawl stroke for 20 ft. (no breathing).
Sign up for Level 5 if your swimmer is 5+ and can do the crawl arm stroke on top of the water.
Skills to be learned include crawl stroke with breathing, backstroke, double somersaults, handstands, head first sculling. To reach the advancement goals for this station, students must swim freestyle 30 ft. with a minimum of 4 breaths.
Stations 6-10 are Pre-Swim team lessons
Sign up for Level 6 is your swimmer is 5+ and has mastered Crawl arm stroke with breathing to the side.
Skills to be learned include extended freestyle swimming, treading water, sitting, kneeling and standing dives. To reach the advancement goals, swimmers must swim freestyle 75ft, backstroke for 30 ft. and tread water for 1 minute.
*Levels 7-10 are determined by SwimAmerica staff evaluation.
Skills to be learned include breaststroke kick, breaststroke swim, butterfly arms and swim. Advancement goals are swimming freestyle 50 yards, backstroke 25 yards and breaststroke kick for 20ft.
Skills to be learned include freestyle with bilateral breathing and turns. To reach the advancement goals for this station, students must swim freestyle for 100 yards using bilateral breathing, breaststroke for 25 yards, and 30 ft. of butterfly.
Skills to be learned include sidestroke kick, swim and elementary backstroke. To reach the advancement goals, the swimmer must be able to complete 200 yards freestyle with bilateral breathing, 25 yards butterfly, 50 yards breaststroke, 50 yards elementary backstroke, and 50 yards sidestroke.
Skills to be learned include extended swimming and technique refinement in all major strokes and turns. To reach the advancement goals, swimmer must be able to complete 300 yards freestyle, 100 yards backstroke and 100 yards individual medley.
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