Swimming Classes in Broward County, FL

United States Swim Academy, Coral Springs:
United States Swim Academy (USSA), located in Coral Springs, Broward County, Florida, teaches babies, toddlers, school-age children and adults to be safe in the water and to swim. USSA offers a professional team of positive, child-oriented instructors, coaches and associates. We are committed to be an active part of the solution to the problem of childhood drowning. We are guided by our Values and Teaching Principles to ensure that children and parents are free to learn and love the process.

Baby Swim Classes
A progression of songs and games stimulate babies ages 3 months to 2 1/2 years to have an affinity for the water.

* We have invested in specially designed slides, mats, rafts, kick board and fins all scaled down to baby size! We are the only swim school you will find with this.

* Your baby will be taught skills by his or her favorite teacher - you, with the help of our professional coaches. They will guide you in learn all the water skills they need.

* Make no mistake BABY WILL LEARN TO SWIM IN THIS CLASS and it is FUN!

Level 1- BEGINNERS CLASS
This class focuses on water familiarization, submersion, short swims, and kicking.

Level 2- INTERMEDIATE CLASS
This class focuses on floating, jumping –returning to the wall, front and back floating, rolling over from prone to back, swimming on cue and retrieving a ring held under water.

Level 3- ADVANCED CLASS
Babies in this swim class are typically 18 months and older. With their parents they float independently, jump into the water rollover and float, use toddler sized kick board to motor about, retrieve rings from the bottom of the pool, and swim 15 -20 feet getting a breath by rolling on to their back.

Swim Classes for Children
Students learn and demonstrate specific skills to be able to move to the next level.

Level One - Bubbles & Glides
1-Blow Bubbles
2-Ten Wall Bobs w/ Bubbles and Air Exchange
3-Streamline
4-Open Eyes under Water
5-Glide and Recover

Level Two - Front & Back Floats
1-10 Elevator Bobs
2-Front and Back Ready Position
3-Front Float
4-Back Float
5 Jump In and Return to the Wall

Level Three - Kicking with Straight legs
1-15 Elevator Bobs
2-Kick w/ Kickboard front & back 15 feet
3-Front & Back Straight Leg Kick 15 feet
4-Dolpin Kicks 15 feet
5-Jump In, Roll Over, and Float

Level Four - Developing Freestyle
1-5 sitting bobs
2-15 feet Side Glide Kick
3-15 feet Side Glide 1 Stroke
4-15 feet Side Glide 3 Strokes
5-Streamline Dolphin Kick

Level Five - Freestyle with Bilateral Breathing
1-15 Streamline bobs
2-Free style drill – zipper
3-25 ft free style with bilateral breathing
4-Dolphin kick on kick board
5-Treading Water 1 minute

Level Six - Backstroke
1-25 feet Backstroke
2-25 yards Free Style
3- Backstroke Drill 3-3
4-Breastroke Kick Intro
5-Tread Water 3 minutes

Level Seven - Breastroke
1-Breastroke Kick
2-Breastroke Arms
3-100 yard Free Kick with Board
4-Free Style Flip Turn
5-25 yards Free/Back Swim

Level Eight - Butterfly
1-Butterfly Arms
2-Butterfly Swim
3-50 Breaststroke/Free
4-Read Pace Clock
5-100 Free Kick /100 Free Swim

Level Nine - Turns
1-25 Butterfly/25Backstroke
2-50 Breastroke/Freestroke
3-200 yards Free Style
4-Turns
5-Tread water 5 minutes

Level 10 - Individual Medley
1-300 yards Free Style
2-100 Individual Medley
3-100 yard Backstroke Swim

Swim Classes for Adults
Private Adult Swim Lessons:
Do you need to learn to swim or improve your swim skills? You are not alone! Only 6% of adults in the United States can swim a length of the pool with correct breathing. Less then 4% could save their lives or the lives of their children in a water emergency. Adults find learning to swim easy and enjoyable with professional instructors.

Tri-athletes improve times when they seek professional coaching to improve stroke and breathing skills.

Beginning Adult Swim Lessons:
These lessons are best for adults with fear of the water or who never had the chance to learn to swim.There are only up to three adult-students in a 30-minute class.

Intermediate Adult Swim Lessons:
These lessons are for adults who can float but has little or no stroke technique. These are 30-minute classes with up to four adult-students.

Advanced Adult Swim Lessons:
For the ambitious adult who wants to learn how to swim for fitness and workout. Also popular with future fire fighters and police candidates who need to pass a swim test. Special scholarships available for fire, police and emergency workers in need.

Special Needs Class
We literally wrote the book on Adaptive Aquatics for the State of Florida’s mandatory on line certification. No one in south Florida has our extensive and successful history teaching special needs children to swim.

Water safety is the BIG ISSUE …Childhood drowning is on the rise in the special needs population. Providing your child with swim lessons is essential to their health and wellness for life.

Our swim lessons offer unique experiences for the special needs child. A child with developmental disabilities and/or physical disabilities will benefit greatly from swim lessons. Opportunity exists for fine and gross motor skill acquisition, strengthening of the body core, legs and arms, social/communication skills as well as fun and relaxation.

Parents and caregivers of children with special needs can look to United States Swim Academy for expert advice and instruction for their child.

We offer a variety classes for your child both private and group. When possible we will mainstream your child into our regular class schedule. When this is not possible we have a strong preference for swim lesson taught in small groups with parents. Over the years we have found the children in small parent/child groups gain water skills quickly and the experience is a happy one for both the parent and child. In fact most of our special needs parent/child groups keep within a lesson or two of the typical child’s swim progress.

ADHD - Michael Phelps highlighted how ideal swimming can be for those managing ADHD. Swimming provides a purely athletic environment where the child is challenged physically.

Autism - especially good. The muffled sound and light that accompanies being underwater make children with autism love swimming. While other children wrestle with trust issues to successfully put their face in the water, autistic children master this skill almost immediately.

Additional Swim Programs
- Private Swim Lessons
- Birthday Parties
- Summer Camps