Welcome to Swim Fanatics! Our history Swim Fanatics first started as a summer program in 1999 with one instructor. By 2007, our program has grown into a year round swimming program that includes private swim instruction, group lessons, drown proofing program for infants and toddlers, developmental, progressive & competitive Swim Team environments that are offered year round for children and Adult cardio swim programs. Swim Fanatics is proud to continue offering swim lessons for swimmers of all ages, (infants through adults) and is excited to currently service well over 350 swimmers in our area. Everyone here at Swim Fanatics believes that swimming is one of the few sports you can continue to do throughout your entire life. Without swim skills, so much fun and development would be missed throughout a lifetime. Swim Fanatics Swim Team provides school year and summer programs for children ages 3-18 years of age and an Adult program for swimming for fitness with a masters team coming in 2008. Our coaches and instructors provide both developmental and competitive team environments for a multitude of swimming abilities. With a strong focus in proper stroke development and technique, your swimmer is sure to have a wonderful swimming experience through Swim Fanatics. With the guidance of our Head Coach Sasha Kuznezov, Swim Fanatics team programs provide dedication, individualized recognition and quality instruction for both new and advanced swimmers. Please visit Instructors & Contacts section of our site for more information on our staff. It is our hope that we can provide everyone with our personal time and talents to ensure a safe and productive swimming experience for your family. Hats off to you for making swimming a priority life skill! Our Motto "Swimming is more than just a Sport, It's a Passion!" Our Mission Swimming is a necessary life skill that everyone should master. It is our goal to ensure a safe and loving environment that encourages all our swimmers to reach their highest potential and thrive in a safe manner in and around water. Our Beliefs We believe in a loving but firm teaching method. Children should learn to share, wait their turn and follow all of their instructors commands during lessons. We teach with a safety first goal in mind. Our immediate goal is to establish both trust and respect between the instructor and swimmer. Children should learn to hold on to the side of the pool and support themselves upright. Basic water orientation is essential during the first few lessons. We do not force submerge any of our swimmers. However, we do introduce early under water experiences as soon as possible to insure quick water adjustment. Once these goals have been obtained, stroke development and breathing techniques will be introduced. We value individuality and understand that all children learn differently. It is our priority to help each child develop to their full potential as a swimmer. Every child needs both positive praise and constructive direction to grow. Our instructors are trained and experienced in helping each child learn and enhance their swimming skills in a safe and loving environment. We believe in teaching children to aim high, to reach high and to fly high! Children need support from people all around them. Our coaches and instructors look for your child's individual uniqueness and we take time to point out the positives in your child's development and growth. Our Year Round Location Swim Fanatics is located in the Reynolds building of Greensboro College. Directions from Friendly Shopping Center are: Take Friendly Ave going towards downtown Greensboro. Shortly after Friendly Ave and Market Street cross, (you will be heading downtown on Market Street) this will become a one way street. You will need to get into your far right-hand lane to turn into our parking lot on the right, immediately after driving under Tate Street light. There is a Greensboro College stone marker in the yard of our facility. Drive all the way through our parking lot until the building ends on the right. Pull into the back gravel parking lot by the playground and glass windowed building. Enter through the Glass door entrance into the pool area. Our facility has changing rooms, lockers, showers and bathrooms for all ages. For printable directions From Friendly Center to Our Facility Our Makeup Policy In the event that your child must miss a scheduled lesson, you must notify your instructor 12 hours before your child's missed lesson to be considered to receive a make up. You are allowed 3 make ups per session for missed & notified lessons, after that you will be placed on a waiting list for any future make up dates during that session only. If your instructor does not receive the 12 hour notice of cancellation, please do not ask for a make up, as one will not be given. The instructors here at Swim Fanatics understand that your child may occasionally fall ill on the same day as their scheduled lesson. We cannot guarantee that you will be given a make up for these unplanned absences, so please do your best to notify your child's instructor before the 12 hour deadline to ensure a make up is scheduled and granted. We ask out of curiosity of your instructor and others to Please not bring your child to swim on a day that they are ill. No one wants or needs to be physically active when they are not well and we want to insure safety and strong health to all our swimmers. We also understand that there will be times you will not be able to make lessons do to a scheduling conflict or vacation. Unfortunately, this missed lesson may not be made up because the lesson was held even while you were absent. We recommend for you to notify and contact your instructor for any possible make times available as soon as you can but please understand a make up is not guaranteed. No transfers of missed lessons, discounts or refunds will be given for any reason due to your absences of lessons. For extreme situations such as long-term injury or hospitalization of a swimmer, where the spot in the lesson can be filled with another swimmer, a credit in the amount of the remainder of the session (unused lessons) may be issued at the instructor discretion. Again, no refunds will be issued for any reason. Scheduling Your Makeup All makeups must be scheduled in advance with your instructor. Your makeup class must be completed during the same session on a different day and in another class of the same level. A 12 week term cannot be lengthened by one week because of an absence. We do not guarantee the same teacher for group lesson make ups. No refunds or credits will be given for any missed classes. Instructor Absences or Pool Closings On rare occasion, your child's instructor maybe absent due to illness or scheduled vacations or absences. If classes must be cancelled due to your instructors absences, you will be given a proper make up suitable to your availability. In the event of a pool closing, make ups will be given ASAP. Your instructor will do their best to give you warning of any cancelled lessons or pool closings. For extreme weather days, please check your email and voice messages for possible cancellations before heading to the pool. All Swim Fanatics programs follow Guilford County Schools inclement weather plans. If County schools are closed for poor weather, Swim Fanatics lessons & team practices will be cancelled for the day. Suitable make ups for group lessons will be given via email as soon as possible. Swim Fanatics may also cancel lessons for unusually cold water temperatures. Water temperature that drops below 80 degrees mixed with cold room air temperature can create a very uncomfortable environment for small children. Although this problem does not occur often, sometimes during cold winter months it is a risk. If Swim Fanatics cancels lessons because the instructors feel the temperature creates an unwelcoming and unproductive environment, lessons will be postponed for a suitable later date. Please refer back to our Schedule for possible dates the pool is closed for holidays. Use of Facilities Greensboro College pool is not owned by Swim Fanatics, it is campus property and for members only. Swimmers are allowed to use both the showers and changing facilities before, during and shortly after your swimming class are offered. Children must be supervised at all times and are not permitted to roam around the facility. Use of the pool is for swim lessons only. Please do not use the pool as a family recreation facility, all swimmers must be enrolled in the on-going program to participate in the lesson. Parking is reserved for swim lessons in the gravel parking area by the pool entrance only. Please do not park in the front of the facility, as that is for students only. Greensboro College pool is maintained by an Aquatic Director/College Swim Coach. The college's aquatics staff checks and regulates the chemicals 4 times a day and maintains the heated pools water temperature at 82-83 degrees throughout the year. Additionally, you are responsible for your child and their actions. Please talk with them regarding the use of the facility. Lock room use should be supervised. No sitting or standing on counter tops. Fire alarms should be avoided by all children. There is a $500 fee for anyone that pull it by accident or by prank. Please educate your children regarding this matter and keep small children away from the alarms. Use of Swim Diapers Non-disposable swimming diapers should be worn by any child who is not yet potty trained and by all children under the age of 2 ½ years. This is a Health Department regulation, so we must abide by it. Please do not bring your child to class if he/she has a stomach illness or diarrhea. Accidental Contamination Occasionally a swim diaper leaks fecal matter into the pool water. Although this is rare, it does happen. Please do all you can to assist your instructor in caring for your child and the accident. If this occurs more than once during a swim session, you will be charged a clean up fee of $50. We understand accidents will happen, but please be aware of the cost and time it takes to repair the damage an accident like this causes our pool. It can happen to any child that is not potty trained so continue to do all you can to prevent something like this from happening. Rubber pants maybe needed for potty accidents. Adaptability and your responsibilities as Parents Our instructors are trained to handle crying and fearful situations with your child. It is very common for children to express anxiety during the first several swim lessons. Be prepared for the idea that even though your child seems to love playing in water, it may be very different in a class environment. We ask you to be patient, we are confident that once your swimmer has adjusted and swimming like a little fish, you will be glad you worked through the emotions of helping your child over come their fears and make adjustments to change. Also, we encourage all parents to be open to the idea of disappearing during the first few lessons when your child is in the adjustment phase of lessons. Let your instructor know where you will be and reassure your child that you will be back at the end of class. Every instructor wants the very best for your child and safety is where we begin. Please do not let your child enter the water for any reason until your instructor has given them the okay to enter. This not only insures your instructor is ready to begin class, but also validates to your child that safety is the top priority around water. Once your instructor has dismissed your child from lessons, please assist them by directing your child to exit out of the pool. Your child needs to remain out of the pool once class has ended. Understanding our programs for the young swimmer/Older age group swim lessons vs Developmental swim teams Infants, Toddlers and Young Children Swim Programs- It is normal when small children begin their swim program for the first time to be fearful or upset. Our instructors are trained to handle children experiencing anxiety or separation issues in the water. It is important for the child and instructor to use the first few lessons to establish healthy trust and bonding experiences. I t is often easier to accomplish this when the parent or care giver is not in direct view for the child to see. Please assist your instructor by asking him or her where you should go for the first few lessons. We have several areas that you can view lessons from that will help your instructor gain control of the swimmers. If at anytime your instructor needs you, they will ask you for your assistances. Otherwise, please refrain from conversation with your child during swim lessons. Older age group swimmers/Frogs & Crocs levels- Group lessons teach children to move through the water while working on basic movements, water adaptability and drown proofing. The children that progress through the levels of swim lessons are being taught proper stroke technique needed for water safety and enjoyment in and around water. In our group lessons we strive to teach survival skills, love for the water and to educate. Developmental swim teams- What sets this class apart from one of our higher swim class levels is the stroke development level that is being taught. Young age team environment teaches drills, stroke enhancement technique and development at a much higher level. Developmental team is for the young swimmer that is already acclimated to the water, has no fear and has natural abilities for underwater swimming. Our goals are to broaden the young swimmer and to advance them to team environment with a knowledge of team experience. We strive for all our swimmers to advance into a team environment because we want children to experience the life-long benefits swimming brings. For Private Lesson instruction Although everyone here at Swim Fanatics prides our programs for small student teacher ratios and excellences of our well trained and diverse teaching staff, we realize that there is a need for private swim instruction. We recommend you have your swimmer participate in a group lesson with Swim Fanatics to accompany your private lessons. Private lessons provide a useful tool for children with extreme fears, special needs and those trying to advance through one particular skill. If you feel your child needs private instruction, Please Contact Anitra Fulton to schedule with an instructor. Email at swimfanatics@triad.rr.com Summer Outdoor Programs and Pool Parties If your Summer Pool is interested in having Swim Lessons offered by Swim Fanatics, contact Anitra Fulton for Scheduling opportunities. Summer 2009 is now booking!!! Swim Fanatics does Pool Parties! You supply the pool and we will do life guarding, assist with set up and clean up and organize pool games! Contact Anitra for more information. $25.00 per hour. ($50.00 minimum required). A Tip is suggested for great service to the guard! |
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