Swim School

Ensworth’s Swim School aims to provide a safe, nurturing environment in which your child can discover a passion for the water. Whether your child is seeking to become a competitive swimmer or simply enjoy the water, we have classes designed for each level and desire. Striking an essential balance between playfulness, practice and safety, your child will be guided through new experiences in the water, helping to create an aquatic confidence as your child discovers new ways to make a splash.

Registration Process

To ensure your child is placed in the appropriate class, we require a phone consultation prior to registration and placing a child in a swim class. Contact Krysten Call, Swim School Director, at (615) 906-7479 or by email.

Our one-time registration is designed to allow you to register once and hold your child’s spot until you decide to discontinue classes. Rather than requiring re-registration for a new session, each child will automatically be rolled over into the next session until 30 days advanced written notice is provided.

Please contact Swim School Director Krysten Call
(615) 906-7479 callk@ensworth.com prior to registering for Swim School.

Swim School Classes

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Parent & Me Class (ages 6 – 35 months)

Designed for our smallest swimmers, these classes empower parents to engage in an aquatic experience with their little ones, with emphasis on safety and exploration of the many ways we can start to teach little ones the fundamentals of swimming.
Parent & Me Plus Class (ages 18-35 months)

This class is for our most comfortable small swimmers, specifically those making movements under water. The little fish in this class will continue to progress and build the skills they already know from Parent & Me and extend toward swimming with more comfort and confidence.
Terrific Twos Class (2.5 year-olds)

This class is the next step from Parent & Me classes and a natural progression for little ones who are asserting independence from parents. These semi-private lessons offer individual attention and peer interaction in a positive environment without parent participation. Swimmers learn water safety skills and work on balancing comfort and confidence with swim ability.
Adult Learning

Ensworth Swim School offers private classes for adults who either want to learn to swim or just want further coaching on improving swimming ability. Contact Krysten Call, Director of Ensworth Swim School, to learn more.

Group Swim School Classes

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Novice Swim Prep Class

This class offers an exciting introduction to many swimming skills which each student will build on over the years, including breath control, comfortably submerging, floating, gliding with ease, water entry and exit techniques, kicking and the beginning steps to “big arms” swimming.

This class focuses on safety first while having fun in the water. Teachers will focus on channeling each child’s natural drive for independence into a confidence-building asset as they develop a safe, fun relationship with the water.
Developing Swim Prep Class

This class focuses on swimming skills that will lead to greater confidence, comfort, strength, and mobility in the water. Swimmers in this class are comfortable going underwater and are beginning to understand kicking for propulsion.

Class Requirements: Child must be able to take a deep breath and go underwater on his or her own and understand the concepts of floating and kicking.

Core competencies achieved in this class include: pushing from steps and wall into a horizontal body position on front, pushing off the wall into a back glide, independent jumping in and swimming to the wall, propulsion skills through strong kicking as well as using big arms, pop-up breathing and assisted rolling breathing.
Skilled Swim Prep Class

This class takes place in our warm teaching pool and focuses on building on swimming skills to continue to improve efficiency in the water while swimmers find more confidence in their abilities. Swimmers in this class continue to extend the distance they can swim across the pool both on their fronts and backs.

Class Requirements: Prior to joining this class, children must be able to take a deep breath and comfortably submerge for 10 seconds, float on back, push from the steps or side into a kicking glide, jump in and get back to the wall on own, and be able to swim at least four big arm strokes.

Core competencies achieved in this class include: pushing into a streamlined front kick, pushing off the wall and kicking on back, combining big arms swimming with flipping onto back to breathe, independent pop-up breathing and navigation to the wall, diving to the bottom of the pool to get items.
Advanced Swim Prep Class

Swimmers in this class are putting together all the elements of swimming well. They can coordinate arms and legs together and can navigate around the pool with ease.

Class Requirements: Prior to joining this class, swimmers must be able to comfortably turn onto front from back to get to the wall, push from side into a streamlined front kick, and be able to swim big arms into flipping over onto back to rest/breathe.
Core competencies achieved in this class include: going from streamlined kick to swimming freestyle, pushing off the wall on back into backstroke arms, swimming freestyle with breathing, navigating around obstacles with breathing and getting to the wall, kicking on side, and introduction to the competition pool.

Competitive Team Prep

The next steps after kids learn how to swim, these groups continue to work on refining strokes and cultivating a love for swimming and competition. This program is broken into three different groups with specific skill development goals for each. There is an annual $150 registration fee, which includes a USA Swimming Flex membership, team t-shirt, team cap, Development Meet fees, and a fun championship meet to round out both the fall and spring semesters.

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Prep 1
The Prep 1 Group is our introductory Team Prep level. Group sizes will be no larger than 6 swimmers. Practices will be one time per week for 40 minutes.

Children looking to join Prep 1 should have a basic understanding of freestyle and backstroke. Skills they will learn include:
- Pushing off the wall in streamline
- Side-breathing on freestyle
- Streamline kicking on their back
- Backstroke swimming
- Breaststroke and butterfly kicking
Team Prep 1 - $80 monthly fee
Prep 2
The Prep 2 group is our second tier of Team Prep. Group sizes will be no more than 12 swimmers. Practices will be two times per week for 45 minutes.

This group will swim one practice in our instructional pool and one in our competition pool. Children looking to join Prep 2 should be able to breathe to the side on freestyle; swim good backstroke for at least 15 yards; understand the very basics of breaststroke and butterfly. Skills they will learn include:
- Streamlining into freestyle/backstroke swimming
- Consistent kick on backstroke and good body position
- Continued work to refine breaststroke and butterfly kick, along with drills to build the strokes
Team Prep 2 - $90 monthly fee
Prep 3
Prep 3 is our top tier of the Team Prep group. Group sizes will be no more than 15 swimmers. Practices will be twice a week for 50-minutes.
This group will swim only in our competition pool. Children looking to join Prep 3 should demonstrate proficiency in freestyle and backstroke, and be able to swim at least 4 cycles of breaststroke and butterfly. Skills they will learn include:
- Timing the breath in butterfly and breaststroke
- Racing dives into underwater dolphin kick
- Underwater breaststroke pull-outs
- Learning the basics of using the pace clock
- Swimming a legal 100 IM
Team Prep 3 - $100 monthly fee