Swim Lessons
LEARN TO SWIM
To enroll in the Lawrence Aquahawk Swim Academy please visit:
https://www.teamunify.com/team/mvsla/page/lesson-registration
The Lawrence Aquahawks Swim Academy is a summer long lesson program that teaches young children how to keep safe when they are around water. Our program is designed with young children in mind. Our first priority with any young person is to make sure they are safe when they are around water. We are using the SwimAmerica lesson program.
SwimAmerica is a national program which was developed by competitive swimming coaches and successful swim school directors over 10 years ago. SwimAmerica is the only swim program endorsed by the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA), the most prestigious coach’s association in the world. With SwimAmerica water safety comes first! SwimAmerica lessons are designed to teach all the swim skills your child needs to be safe in and around the water for a lifetime. Although SwimAmerica operates at over 900 sites across the United States, The Lawrence Aquahawks offer the only licensed SwimAmerica program in Lawrence, Kansas.
Key features of the Express SwimAmerica program include:
Coach to swimmer ratios of 1 to 5 or better
Coaches are gentle, caring and understanding of children
Program emphasizes excellent swimming technique
Group swim lesson details
Mornings at The Jayhawk Club
1809 Birdie Way
9:00am to 10:30am
Evenings at Raintree Montessori School
4601 Clinton Pkwy
5:30pm to 7:45pm
Swim lessons are $60 per session. A session is 4 30 minute classes/week. Classes are in 30 minute increments. Each session runs Monday-Thursday, with Fridays designated as a makeup day. Some holiday weeks are Tuesday - Friday. Discounts available for members of The Jayhawk Club, students at Raintree Montessori School and Lawrence Aquahawks families.
More about SwimAmerica
SwimAmerica is station-based program with 10 different stations offering instruction for children of all levels. At Lawrence Aquahawks SwimAmerica, we begin at age 3 - if your child is potty trained. As the skills of each station are mastered, your child is rewarded and moved to the next station within the progression. This effective step by step method allows even the youngest swimmers to learn to swim SAFELY, while offering stronger swimmers the opportunity to develop all the competitive strokes.
The following is a summary of each stations' skills and goals:
Station 1
Goal:
10 bobs in a rhythmic fashion
Skills:
Water adaptation and movement
Blowing bubbles underwater
Looking underwater
Bobbing and blowing in a continuous rhythmic fashion
Note: Good breathing is the KEY to good swimming. If you do not breathe properly then you will not swim well, and you will tire more quickly. We spend a lot of time working on bobs and breathing properly at all SwimAmerica stations.
Station 2
Goals:
Floating comfortably on your front and back for 5 seconds each
Pushing off with a good streamline on your front and gliding on your back
Skills:
Increased comfort and relaxation in the water - establish good body position
Floating with help and then independently on front and back
Pushing off in a horizontal position front and back
Streamlining
Station 3
Goals:
Good, fast flutter kicking on your front and back (5 yards minimum)
Breathing while kicking on your front without dog-paddle
Skills:
Flutter kicking on front and back with help, then independently
Kicking with floatation devices -- kickboards, noodles, bricks, etc.
Dolphin dives/butterfly kicking
Station 4
Goals:
Flutter kicking on your side and breathing to the side (side glide kick) minimum 20 feet
Swimming the freestyle with “big arms” and head still minimum 20 feet
Skills:
Balancing on your side while flutter kicking
Head rotation for breathing to the side - with a full air exchange
Good body/head alignment
Development of “big arms” while swimming freestyle
Development of “feel” for the water via sculling and drills
Station 5
Goals:
Freestyle with good breathing and good backstroke for a minimum of 30 feet
Skills:
Continuation of good body/head alignment in freestyle and backstroke
Timing of breathing within the freestyle stroke without interruption of rhythm
Backstroke arm movement with good rotation
Freestyle arm movement with good rotation
Station 6
Goals:
Extended freestyle and backstroke swimming (full laps of 25-yard pool) with good technique
Ability to jump in and tread water for a minimum of 1 minute
Skills:
Increased endurance for both freestyle and backstroke
Continued refinement of freestyle and backstroke technique
Diving
Treading water/sculling.
Station 7
Goals:
Swim 50 yards freestyle with good technique
Swim 25 yards good backstroke
Kick breastroke in a streamline with good technique for at least 20 feet
Skills :
Development of breastroke kick
Development of full stroke breastroke
Introduction of butterfly arms and full stroke butterfly
Continuation of stroke refinement for freestyle and backstroke
Improved endurance in all strokes
Station 8
Goals:
Swim 100 yards freestyle with good technique using bilateral breathing and flip turns
Swim 25 yards good breastroke
Swim 25 yards good butterfly
Skills:
Refinement of technique for all four competitive strokes
Bilateral breathing (alternate side breathing in freestyle)
Increased endurance in all strokes
Development of open turns and flip turns
Station 9
Goals:
Swim 200 yards freestyle with bilateral breathing
Swim 25 yards butterfly, 50 yards breastroke, 50 yards elementary backstroke, and 50 yards sidestroke
Skills:
Continued refinement of all four competitive strokes
Development of sidestroke
Development of elementary backstroke
Increased endurance in all strokes
Station 10 - Pre-Team
Goals:
Swim 300 yards freestyle, 100 yards backstroke, and 100 yards individual medley
Skills:
Extended swimming and technique refinement in all strokes and turns
Sessions Offered for Group Lessons
2023 Sessions TBA
To enroll in the Lawrence Aquahawk Swim Academy please visit:
https://www.teamunify.com/team/mvsla/page/lesson-registration