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Swim Lessons 2025: Session One - 10:00am - 10:30am Register View Cart

All season pass holders are eligible to register for swim lessons at a reduced rate. All discounts are applied at payment screen. Swim lessons are discounted by 50%. 

Adult & Child 
- Orientation to water for toddlers and their favorite adult
- Swimmers learn how to use floating objects for support and explore different water movements through games, songs, and active water play.


Level One - Exploring the Water (ages 5+)
- Prerequisite - None
- Learn skills to feel more comfortable in the water and develop good swimming habits and safe practices around the water. 
- Elementary aquatic skills are introduced - entering and exiting the water, submerging mouth, nose, and eyes, blowing bubbles through the mouth and nose, bobbing in the water, front and back swimming using arms and legs, retrieving objects underwater. 

Level Three - Stroke Development (ages 5+) 
- Prerequisites - can swim on front and back unsupported for 15 feet with alternating arm action and continuous kicking; can float and glide unsupported and bob fully submerged five times, 
- Submerge and retrieve objects
- Treading water using the scissor kick 
- Coordinate the front crawl and the back crawl 
- Survival float 
- Flutter, scissor, dolphin, and breaststroke kicks
- Head-first entries from the side - kneeling and sitting positions 

Level Four - Stroke Improvement (ages 5+)
- Prerequisites - can swim front crawl at least 15 yards, back crawl 15 yards, and butterfly kick, breaststroke kick at least 15 yards; can do kneeling dive and tread water for at least 30 seconds
- Develop confidence, coordination, and strength in the strokes learned in Level 3.
- Coordination and control in all six strokes (front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke).
- Swimming underwater
- Feet first surface dive
- Treading water using 2 different kicks
- Open turns
- Head first entries from the side

Level Five/Six - Stroke Refinement (ages 5+) 
- Prerequisites - can swim front crawl with rotary breathing and back crawl at least 25 yards, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke at least 15 yards; strokes should have all the elements and only need refinement; can do standing diving and tread water at least one minute
- Refinement of all six strokes (front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke, and sidestroke). 
- Flip turns on the front and back
- Tuck and pike surface dives 
- Swimming longer distances

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Swim Lessons 2025: Adult/Child - Session One 
1y - 3y N/A MTuWThF  06/30/2025 - 07/11/2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Rosemary Recreation Complex
$180.00 Res, $180.00 Non-Res
 
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Swim Lessons 2025: Level One - Session One 
5y and up N/A MTuWThF  06/30/2025 - 07/11/2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Rosemary Recreation Complex
$180.00 Res, $180.00 Non-Res
 
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Swim Lessons 2025: Level Three - Session One 
5y and up N/A MTuWThF  06/30/2025 - 07/11/2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Rosemary Recreation Complex
$180.00 Res, $180.00 Non-Res
 
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Swim Lessons 2025: Level Four- Session One 
5y and up N/A MTuWThF  06/30/2025 - 07/11/2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Rosemary Recreation Complex
$180.00 Res, $180.00 Non-Res
 
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Swim Lessons 2025: Level Five/Six- Session One 
5y and up N/A MTuWThF  06/30/2025 - 07/11/2025
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Rosemary Recreation Complex
$180.00 Res, $180.00 Non-Res
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