Guthrie Summer Aquatics

The YMCA is a leader in providing swimming instruction for children, providing swimming lessons, water safety, and water sports skills. Aquatics programs, like other YMCA activities help to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities.

Children have a great time learning how to swim, making new friends, and participating in developmentally appropriate activities that teach life skills that help them grow in spirit, mind, and body and develop a lifelong appreciation of aquatic activities.

Parenting and aquatic safety tips are incorporated into the program through parent meetings and handouts. The skills children learn in class are reinforced through family huddle activities and other parent education materials children take home in handouts.

In the under-three portion of the Parent/Child and Preschool program, parents (or other caregivers) and their children take part in activities that help them to bond, and instructors encourage parents to learn about and play with their children.

Teaching community members aquatic safety and basic rescue skills is an important contribution to the community. The more people who learn about aquatic safety and rescue, the more lives that can be saved and accidents prevented.

Volunteer opportunities through the YMCA Swim Lessons program also strengthen the community by helping volunteers learn the importance of helping others.