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Esper A. Petersen Foundation Family Aquatic Center

250 Library Lane
847-543-1694

The Esper A. Petersen Foundation Family Aquatic Center now offers 10-lesson sessions! Swim School lessons will be held Monday - Friday. The first day of each session will be a review and placement testing day. Your child will be placed in the appropriate level on the first day of lessons.

Skills:
Beginner: Water adjustment and introduction of beginning skills.

Tadpole: placing face in water and assisted floats
Guppy: unassisted front and back floats
Minnow: kicks and arm movements with kickboards

Intermediate: Introduction, coordination, and endurance development of basic swim strokes and water skills.

Sea Horse: introduction of front and back crawl
Orca: introduction of elementary backstroke
Marlin: introduction of underwater movements and treading water

Advanced: Introduction, coordination, and endurance development of advanced swim strokes and survival skills.

Stingray: introduction of breaststroke
Dolphin: introduction of sidestroke and butterfly
Shark: introduction of survival skills