Aquatics
Lifeguarding Class
Become certified in one weekend
Become certified through the American Red Cross as a Lifeguard. Join our RSS Instructional staff in taking your first step toward a rewarding career as a lifeguard. Learn skills in aquatic rescue, CPR, AED, First Aid, and safety while gaining the confidence to react in an emergency. Participants will need to be able to pass a pre-course skills test during the first session in order to continue.
Fall 2025 Recertification classes: Check back soon!
Youth Learn to Swim
Our experienced swim instructors are ready to help your child take the next step to become confident in and around the pool. Participants of all swim backgrounds and ages 6 mo and up are welcome to enroll. Limited spots are available!
Please check back for youth swim lessons in Spring 2026.
Pool to Pro
RSS Pool to Pro Clinics are newly redesigned small group clinics aimed to teach you how to swim, perfect your stroke, or get ready for your next race! We have a class for every ability. Each clinic consists of 6, 45-minute lessons and each section has no more than a 1:5 teacher-to-student ratio. Take your first splash or take your swimming to the next level with our trained instructional team.
Youth Workout
Is your swimmer gearing up for a season of competitive swimming this summer? This weekly class is designed to support a summers-only competitive swimmer (estimated ages 8 -17) by maintaining competitive mechanics (like turns, starts and strokes).
Led by American Red Cross WSI-certified instructors who are experienced with competitive swimming, this class will help your swimmer maintain competitive swimming skills and endurance during the off-season. Participants will be assigned a swim workout by the instructor(s) for each class and offered limited instruction during the classes.
This class is NOT a Learn-To-Swim class. Group Swim Lessons are typically offered on Saturday mornings.
Check back in Spring 2026 for this program.
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Parent and Me (estimated 6-24 mo old)
This class is a parent-in-water class for children and infants. Here we help new swimmers get comfortable in the water, build basics of safety and body positioning, as well as give take-home drills to do on your own.
Parent and Pup (estimated 24 mo - 4 years old)
This parent/toddler class is designed to build the swimming foundations needed to learn more advanced safety concepts and skills. Participants will begin floating, changing body position, entering and exiting, and submerging.
Paddle Puppies (estimated 3-5 years old)
This is your swimmer’s first splash by themselves. Here we begin (or continue) to develop foundational skills needed to become a self-sufficient swimmer. Students will focus on pool safety, underwater exploration, breath control, flutter kick, and body positioning.
Dawg Paddlers:
This Advanced program is for participants ready to take the next step as a swimmer. Swimmers must be comfortable submerging fully and able to support themselves comfortably in the water.
Level 1 (estimated 4-6 years old)
Here we continue to re-enforce foundational skills and safety while introducing the first concepts of front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke.
Level 2 ( estimated 5-7 years old)
Swimmers learn advanced safety skills and concepts while introducing dives, treading water, refining front crawl, and backstroke, and developing breaststroke and butterfly.
Level 3 (estimated 6-10 years old)
Swimmers learn swim etiquette for recreational swimming, advanced drills and techniques for front crawl and backstroke, and developmental skills for breaststroke and butterfly.
Level 4 (estimated 8+ years old)
Advanced students refine swimming skills, learn how to create swim sets for exercise, and learn basic rescue skills.
Ready to hit the pool? Sign up for lessons this Spring 2026
