Swim America Lessons at Academy
Swim Lessons
The Swim Lessons program at Albuquerque Academy is a SwimAmerica program, hosted, organized, and coached by Charger Aquatics staff and our Academy Lifeguards, who are water rescue, CPR, and SwimAmerica certified.
If you are unsure what level would be the best fit for your child, broad descriptions of the SwimAmerica levels that we use as guidelines for our introductory programs will be listed below!
Swim America Levels
1. Working on getting their head underwater and blowing bubbles.
2. Starting to float around and get a feel for water without touching the bottom.
3. Isolating the motion of kicking.
4. Foundation of freestyle, starting to 'crawl' around the pool.
5. Basic freestyle 'crawling' with continuous breathing.
6. Freestyle, starting to work on backstroke (Start of Pre-Team).
7. Backstroke, freestlye, and foundations for breaststroke and butterfly.
8. Foundations of all four strokes & breathing, working on adding turns.
9. Able to swim at least a length of each stroke irregularly utilizing turns, ability to work on basic stroke drills.
10. Able to swim multiple lenghts of each stroke with consistent turns, focusing on increasing distance and adding more complicated stroke drills.
