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Aquatics

Why Mid-Minnesota Community Aquatics?

Key elements of learning include: Effective lesson planning, teaching techniques appropriate to students' abilities including explanations, demonstrations and skill practice, balanced group and individual practice time, individual attention to students with positive feedback.

Instructors are trained in: principles of water safety, proper techniques for swimming, effective skill progressions to teach swimming, class management and teaching techniques.

Well rounded curriculum: basic skills for water adjustment, focus on developing an efficient kick.

Four competitive strokes: Front Crawl (freestyle), Back Crawl (backstroke), Breaststroke and Butterfly

Two resting strokes: Elementary Backstroke and Sidestroke

Please read all course descriptions carefully in order to place your child in the correct class.

  • Adapted Swim: Dive into the essential knowledge and skills of water safety with our Adapted Swim Class. This is a specialized program designed to empower individuals of all abilities to enjoy aquatic environments confidently. It will be hosted by seasoned instructors who have experience working with individuals with various disabilities. This community education initiative prioritizes inclusivity, ensuring that everyone regardless of their physical or cognitive ability can learn vital water safety techniques in a supportive and accommodating setting.
  • April Semi Private Lessons: Mid-Minnesota Community Aquatics provides parents and children with important and useful information about strokes, skills and water safety. We help teach people to swim, be safe on and around the water, and what to do in the event of an emergency. Our caring and dedicated instructors will help your child enjoy swimming and water safety skills in our positive learning environment
  • Camps and Clinics
  • Intro to Competitive Swim: Students refine stroke technique on all major competitive strokes, turns, and starts. Students also learn about competitive swimming.
  • Learn to Dive: This class will teach you the basic approaches to diving.  Learn tricks as well as keeping yourself centered and focused on the skill of diving.
  • May Semi Private Lessons: Mid-Minnesota Community Aquatics provides parents and children with important and useful information about strokes, skills and water safety. We help teach people to swim, be safe on and around the water, and what to do in the event of an emergency. Our caring and dedicated instructors will help your child enjoy swimming and water safety skills in our positive learning environment
  • Preschool Aquatics
  • Private Lessons
  • Semi Private Lessons Session 2 - June (17th - 27th): Mid-Minnesota Community Aquatics provides parents and children with important and useful information about strokes, skills and water safety. We help teach people to swim, be safe on and around the water, and what to do in the event of an emergency. Our caring and dedicated instructors will help your child enjoy swimming and water safety skills in our positive learning environment
  • Swim 1 Lessons: Participants become comfortable in the water learning basic safety skills with assistance.
    Safety topics include pool rules, recognizing lifeguards, and safe water entry.
    Skills: Enter and exit the water, blowing bubbles, picking up objects underwater, front/back float, front/back blast off, flip flop (roling from front to back), flutter kick on the wall, treading water motions.
  • Swim 2 Lessons: Participants learn to swim without support.
    Safety topics include being able to recall parent/guardians names.
    Skills: Jump into chest deep water and return to the edge of the pool, bob underwater and hold breath, front/back float, flip flip (rolling from front to back and back to front), flutter kicks with kick board, treading water, front/back crawl, breaststroke kick.
  • Swim 3 Lessons: Participants learn to be comfortable with new skills in deep water and learn new strokes.
    Safety topics include helping yourself in an emergency.
    Skills: Jump into deep water and return to wall, front/back float in deep end, flutter kick on front/back with kick board, tread water in deep end, front crawl and rhythmic breathing, elementary backstroke, breaststroke kick and arm motion.
  • Swim 4 Lessons: Participant increase endurance, improve skills.
    Safety topics include basic first aid, and assisting others.
    Skills: Feet first surface dive in the deep end, somersault, open turn: front/back crawl, treading water, flutter kick on front/back with kick board, breaststroke kick with kick board, front/back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, and dolphin kick. 
  • Swim 5/6 Lessons: Participants learn ways to improve efficiency for strokes previously learned.
    Skills: Feet-first surface dive to 7th. and pick up an object, flip turn: front and back, treading water, flutter/dolphin/breaststroke kick with kick board, front/back crawl with flip turn, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and sidestroke.