Spring Speed Weeks
Openings, 15 minutes each
March 9-12 2:15 & 2:30; May 11-14 1:45
perfect for siblings to have back to back swim lessons
Connie Swim School
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Private swim instruction for children age 6 months to age 7. All lessons are one on one 15 minute privates.
If interested, send your email address to:[email protected] to be added to the registration email. Connie Swim School is a September-June swim school specializing in infants, toddlers and preschool aged children. A very smooth, fluid, relaxed method of swimming is emphasized with correct body position from the very beginning. The goal is for all children to become safe in the water and t
Registration for students returning from the Fall 2025 Speed Weeks is currently underway.
Late next week, email notification will go to all Connie Swim School families about available Spring 2026 openings.
Connie Swim School is on a break. Lessons will resume in 2026. The spring schedule has not been finalized. Once it is, an email will be sent to everyone on the Connie Swim School contact list about registration.
[email protected]
Registration for the Fall 2025 swim lesson sessions begins Wednesday, August 6th at 7pm by email only. For a schedule of available times and/or other information, email [email protected].
See you at the pool!
07/17/2025
Today concludes my 54th continuous year of teaching private swim lessons in Greensboro. I loved getting to know so many families and watching their children grow. The next generation is now enrolling their infants, toddlers and young children.
800 private lessons were taught this year and I loved every minute of it. See you at the pool!
Email Registration for private swim lessons will begin on:
Wednesday, January15 at 7:00.
If you are not already on the contact list and would like the spring schedule, cost and information sheet then please email -
[email protected]
Thank you!
Connie Hilliard
The Olympic Synchronized (Artistic) Swimming is incredible especially since no one is wearing goggles!! They must have read my Connie Swim School Information Sheet!
The Spring 2024 Session, consisting of 11 Speed Weeks, is underway and will continue through early June. All openings are filled. I’m looking forward to meeting new students and the return of all my adorable veteran buddies!
07/13/2022
Riley Ramseur age 12 Greensboro Community Swim Association City Meet. Golden Swimmer!
05/29/2022
Swim goggle dependency is a dangerous epidemic.
It’s the same for water wings, arm floaties, ear plugs and puddle jumpers. The May 27th News & Record picture showing a child jumping into a pool wearing all of these is a bad, and dangerous example for parents. Everyone, young and old, should go swimming without any of the above.
Is wearing such “gear” a trivial matter? No, it’s HUGE. Swimming is a horizontal activity; treading water is a vertical activity. These crutches eliminate your child’s ability to do both. They do not make your child safe in the water. According to the CDC, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death for children ages 1-14. Nearly 80% of drowning deaths among preschoolers are due to accidentally falling into the water, usually fully clothed and often reaching for a floating toy. It may seem that every kid at the pool is wearing goggles (and gear), but almost every kid that accidentally falls in the water is NOT! Those accidental victims cannot see their way to safety or “water wing” their way to safety because they haven't learned to open their eyes underwater or to swim. In addition to keeping a child from swimming with eyes wide open, goggles are often too tight, too loose, leaky, foggy, wrong color, don't match the swimsuit or, not like the ones someone else is wearing. They are not worth the risk. Save your money, skip the goggles and gear and improve the odds of saving your child’s life. It will probably require you to get in the pool with them…and that’s a really, really good thing!
Learning to open your eyes underwater is critical step #1. Let those natural blinkers go to work! For 50 years, I have taught preschoolers to swim, one-on-one. I have loved every minute. Now, more than ever, I encounter parents who want their preschooler safe in the water but are surprised when they learn I do not allow goggles (or gear). I get their faces wet early and often (do the same when you’re in the pool with them). At first, opening your eyes underwater is a little surprising and blurry. But they do it so much in my classes that it becomes a non-event. I teach infants and toddlers to “fall” into the water, open their eyes, turn their head, look for the wall and go get it. They have learned to save themselves in a pool. I have lots of underwater pictures of smiling happy faces with bubbles all around! I know children whose lives have been saved by that skill.
Non-event status is how you and your child should feel about not wearing goggles (or gear). Use those open eyes to swim, splash, dive and enjoy the water safely. Use those blinkers when you come up for a breath. If, and when, your child joins a swim team, goggles may then be used but they aren’t necessary. My college sport was synchronized swimming. It’s a sport where no one, not even Olympians, wear goggles even though you are underwater almost all the time.
Parents, test your child (and/or teen) to see if they can easily and comfortably swim a length of the pool without goggles or gear. Remember, you are the adult, and you are in charge. No goggles and no gear are no big deal, and it’s for their own blinking good!
Connie Hilliard
Connie Swim School
American Red Cross trained Water Safety Instructor
[email protected]
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