Swimming

Whether you are part of our school community or our local community, we invite you and your family to participate in our swim program.

*2025–2026 Schedule

Session 1: September 29–November 8

• Registration: August 25–September 1 

Session 2: November 10–January 24 

• Registration: October 20 – 27 

Session 3: January 26–March 21 

• Registration: January 12 – 19 

Session 4: March 30–May 23 

• Registration: March 9–16 

Kick Start Intensives: May 25–June 12

• Registration: May 11–18

When possible, a make-up week will be offered at the end of each session, but it is not guaranteed. The make-up week is available at no cost to current students who have missed a class during the regular session. This week will also be used if Lowell has to cancel a class due to inclement weather or other unforeseen circumstances.

• Tadpoles (Intro/Beginners; Level 1): Swimmers learn about pool safety and get acclimated to being in and around a pool. They learn basic exercises and skills that lay the foundation for developing primary swimming strokes. The focus is on fundamental skills, including holding one’s breath, air exchange, floating, kicking, and arm motions for freestyle and backstroke.
• Goldfish (Freestyle and Backstroke; Level 2): Students build on fundamental techniques at this level. They learn to balance in the water, maintain proper body position, and understand how their movements enable them to move through the water. Goldfish also work on building coordination, strength, proper freestyle and backstroke kicks, arm motions, and swimming on their own in shallow and deep ends of the pool.
• Catfish (Stroke Refinement; Level 3): In Catfish, students in this class will continue to build on the fundamentals taught in the Goldfish class, incorporating endurance, breathing techniques, and diving, and introducing breaststroke and butterfly. Swimmers will swim the length of the pool, performing specific drills to improve their understanding, strength, and overall technique in each of the four strokes. Swimmers will begin each class using fins. As their ability increases, the duration of fin use will decrease until they can swim entirely without fins.
• Stingrays (Pre Team; Level 4): Students will continue to build on the techniques and skills introduced in the Catfish classes. Students will also be introduced to breaststroke, butterfly, and diving, and develop their endurance and muscle memory. Students who wish to enroll in Stingrays must be able to swim two lengths of the pool in both freestyle (front crawl) and backstroke (back crawl) without swimming aids or personal floatation devices. Students will focus on the fundamentals of age-group swimming as stated by USA Swimming.

A limited number of private lessons are offered. All available private lesson options are listed in real-time in the registration portal. 

Semi-private lessons may be available to families whose swimmers are at the same ability level. After registration, please follow up with After Care.