Youth Lessons

Registration opens on February 12th for Members and February 19th for Non-Members for the next session of swim lessons. Lessons run for 7 weeks, March 5th - April 20th! Register online or in-person.

  • Family Members $30
  • Youth Members $50
  • Non-Members $90

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Swim Lesson Schedule

Swimming Basics

This program offers children their first experience in the pool with instructional assistance. Students will learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills: swim, float, swim and jump, push turn grab.  The preschool program includes children ranging from ages 3 to 5 years old. The school age program includes children ranging from 6 to 12 years old. These classes are 30 minutes in length and meet once a week for 7 weeks. Pre-registration is required.

30 minutes
6 mos – 18 mos w/parent

Water Discovery

This Parent-Child class introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment through games, songs, and independent work. Milestones include encouraging parents to set appropriate expectations for their children, introducing and emphasizing basic water safety, building relationships between parents and children, and providing a positive family aquatic experience. On-going water experiences build self-confidence, water enjoyment, and aquatic education.

*No classes currently scheduled

30 minutes
6 mos – 3 years w/parent

Water Exploration

The Parent-Child classes helps promote water enrichment and aquatic readiness activities for children and their parent or other trusted adult. This class focuses on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills. Milestones include encouraging children to move purposefully through water in response to verbal and visual cues, and using toys and flotation devices, emphasizing basic aquatic safety to parents, and building relationships between parents and children by providing opportunities for fun and interaction in the water.

  • Thu @ 5:40pm
30 minutes
3–5 years

Pre-School Water Acclimation

In this first stage, water comfort increases with underwater exploration and basic self-rescue skills are introduced and performed with assistance. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills with instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water with instructor help, and learning basic aquatic safety.

  • Tue @ 5pm
  • Thu @ 5:40pm
  • Sat @ 9am
30 minutes
3-5 years

Pre-School Water Movement

The second stage encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. Prerequisites include being comfortable in the water and able to fully submerge, with the face underwater. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills without instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water without instructor help, learning basic aquatic safety, and accepting some of the responsibility for safe practices. By the end of this level, children should be able to swim unassisted for short distances.

  • Tue @ 5:40pm
  • Sat @ 9:40am
30 minutes
3-5 years

Pre-School Water Stamina

The third stage develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than the previous stages. Prerequisites include being able to swim and float completely unassisted as well as able to swim short distances without assistance. Milestones include integrating arm action, leg action, and rhythmic breathing in back and front glides, developing forward movement on the front and back, and practicing skills and safety techniques in deep water.

  • Tue @ 5pm
  • Sat @ 10:20am
30 minutes
6-12 years

School Age Water Acclimation

In this first stage, water comfort increases with underwater exploration and basic self-rescue skills are introduced and performed with assistance. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills with instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water with instructor help, and learning basic aquatic safety.

  • Tue @ 6:20pm
  • Thu @ 6:20pm
  • Sat @ 9am
30 minutes
6-12 years

School Age Water Movement

The second stage encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. Prerequisites include being comfortable in the water and able to fully submerge, with the face underwater. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills without instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water without instructor help, learning basic aquatic safety, and accepting some of the responsibility for safe practices. By the end of this level, children should be able to swim unassisted for short distances.

  • Tue @ 5:40pm
  • Thu @ 7pm
  • Sat @ 9:40am
30 minutes
6-12 years

School Age Water Stamina

The third stage develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than the previous stages. Prerequisites include being able to swim and float completely unassisted as well as able to swim short distances without assistance. Milestones include integrating arm action, leg action, and rhythmic breathing in back and front glides, developing forward movement on the front and back, and practicing skills and safety techniques in deep water.

  • Tue @ 7pm
  • Thu @ 5pm
  • Sat @ 10:20am

Swim Strokes

Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity. Each skill level builds the preceding level, with each level covering the strokes, diving fundamentals, and safety skills. These classes are 30 minutes in length and meet once a week for 7 weeks. Pre-registration is required.

30 minutes
3-5 years

Pre-School Stroke Introduction

The fourth stage introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke. Prerequisites include being able to swim 15 meters on the front and back without assistance. Milestones include developing the front crawl and back crawl, introducing components of the breaststroke and butterfly, and practicing safety techniques in deep water.

*No classes currently scheduled

30 minutes
6-12 years

School Age Stroke Introduction

The fourth stage introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke. Prerequisites include being able to swim 15 meters on the front and back without assistance. Milestones include developing the front crawl and back crawl, introducing components of the breaststroke and butterfly, and practicing safety techniques in deep water.

  • Tue @ 6:20pm
  • Sat @ 11am
30 minutes
6-12 years

Stroke Development

The fifth stage introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke. Prerequisites include able to swim front crawl with rotary breathing and back crawl proficiently and knowledge of the fundamentals for breaststroke and butterfly. Milestones include developing stamina in the front crawl and back crawl, developing the breaststroke and butterfly and building endurance techniques for deep-water safety.

  • Tue @ 4:20pm
  • Sat @ 11am
40 minutes
6-12 years

Stroke Mechanics

The sixth stage refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.

  • Swimmers ready for this level should register for swim team.
  • Developing endurance.
  • Developing skills related to competitive swimming.
  • Building skills and endurance in the deep water.

 

Pool Schedule
Water Finess Schedule

A.L. Hanford Pool

Exciting changes are coming to the pool beginning Monday, May 16th! 

The YMCA will ONLY be using Picktime on Monday and Wednesday from 8:00AM – 12:00PM, Friday from 9:00AM – 12:00PM and on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00AM-10:15AM.  Other times will be open lap lanes and will not require sign-ups on Picktime.  See pool schedule for specific days, times and number of lanes available.

To serve our family members more effectively, we will no longer be requiring sign-ups for family swim lanes.  We will now have open swim certain times each day.  See the pool schedule for open swim day and times.

Lap Lane Sign Up

American Red Cross Lifeguarding Course

includes CPR, 1st aid, and Lifeguard certification. 15 and up. Must swim 12 lengths of the pool, tread water, and timed deep water object retrieval. For more information contact 717-376-1387.

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