The Bonita Springs YMCA offers a wide variety of aquatics programs – swim lessons, lap swimming, water fitness opportunities, and lifeguard classes. Our outdoor swimming pool features three lap lanes and family fun pool. Children of all ages will enjoy the frog mini-slide, zero depth entry, and fun water features.
Members ages 8 years and up have access to the pool area without adult supervision after passing a swimming competency test.
Our aquatics programs include:
Swim Lessons - Youth
The Bonita Springs YMCA offers a variety of group swim lessons for youth starting at 6 months of age. Please download our 2010 schedules for upcoming class information or see the class descriptions below for more details about our program.
Class Descriptions
i) Parent/Child Classes (Ages 6-36 Months)
This class teaches basic water safety and swimming skills. Emphasis is placed on enjoyment, pre-learning activities, development of swimming confidence and basic water safety, use of personal flotation devices, diving safety, and non-swimming rescues for backyard pools and open water areas.
Children under 3: Learn about water adjustment. Must be accompanied in the pool by parent(s) or adult at all times for the safety and comfort of each child. Songs and games provide a fun atmosphere for learning while parents guide children to learn water adjustment, pool safety and stroke development skills.
| Level |
Age |
| Shrimp |
6-8 Months
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| Kippers |
9-12 Months
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| Innia |
13-18 Months
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Perch
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19-36 Months
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ii) Preschool Levels (Ages 3-5 Years Old)
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Level
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Description |
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Pike
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Designed for beginner level swimmers. Unaccompanied by parents in the water, students explore basic paddle stroke, kicking skills and pool safety. The goals for the pike level are as follows: confidence in the water, swim 10 feet on the front, and submerge underneath the water.
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Eel
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Children will learn how to move in the water independently, front float, back float, and treading. The main focus is to take a breath with arm recovery while building endurance and swimming longer distances.
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Ray/Starfish
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This class is designed for advanced 3-5 year olds. Prerequisite to this class is the ability to swim the width of the shallow-end of the pool front and back. At this level the child will work on the details of the freestyle and backstroke and will also be introduced to the breaststroke, elementary backstroke, and butterfly.
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iii) Youth Swim Program (Ages 6-12 Years Old)
| Level |
Description |
| Polliwog |
This level is for children who have never had any experience with swimming, or are a little apprehensive in the water. This class will focus on skill objectives including voluntary water entry, water adjustment, floating, kicking, pulling and breath control. Independent movement in the water is the main focus of this class.
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| Guppy |
Students continue to refine basic skills of the front and backstroke. Bilateral breathing will be introduced along with correctly body position. The breaststroke, elementary back stroke, treading water and under water swimming will be introduced. Our goal, with much practice of these strokes and drills, is to have each student swim 25 years of each stroke.
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| Minnow |
Students continue to refine the front and backstroke, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke. Swimming a distance of 50 yards of each stroke and continuous improvement of endurance are the goals of this class. |
| Fish / Flying Fish / Shark |
The butterfly, sidestroke, and flip turns are taught at this level. Refinement of competitive strokes and techniques are perfected.
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Swim Lessons – Private
The Bonita Springs YMCA seeks to teach swimming and water safety to as many students as possible through our group lesson program. As a supplement to that, we offer private and semi-private swimming lessons for our members.
| Swim Lessons - Private |
| Ages |
All |
| Cost |
Varies by number of lessons and membership type; lessons starts at $30 per half hour for Max Members
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| Days/Times |
To be determined by participant and instructor. |
| Registration |
Ongoing |
| Additional Information |
Private lessons are defined as one participant and one instructor. Semi-private swim lessons are defined as two participants and one instructor.
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For additional information contact:
Monica Leatherman (click to e-mail)
(239) 598-5156
