Reach Your Swim Class Goals

Every student who swims with Montana Swim Academy has swim class goals to work toward. We help students aim for these goals because they function as a step-by-step guide to better swimming. By ensuring that students meet their goals, our team helps them develop fundamental skills for swimming. And, once they confidently master starting goals, students then have the necessary skills for completing more challenging goals. These not only provide students with some of the best ways to learn how to swim, but they also provide students with a clear goal to aim for. For a guide on which of these classes would best fit your child, try out our swimming level quiz. Otherwise, see the different levels of swim classes and their goals below!

Under 3 — Parent & Baby

Starfish

  • Full submersion
  • No crying, no fear
  • Assisted back float with ears in
Starfish class character icon

Duckling

  • Independent back float
  • Independent rollover
  • Separation from parent
Duckling class character icon

Over 3 — Water Survival

Turtle class character icon

Turtle

  • Full Submersion
  • No crying, no fear
  • Assisted back float with ears in
Otter class character icon

Otter

  • Independent back float
  • Independent rollover
  • Jump in, rollover, float
Seal class character icon

Seal

  • Kick 10 yards on front
  • Kick 10 yards on back
  • Swim, roll, swim 10 yard

Over 3 — Stroke Development

Sea Lion

  • Freestyle 25 yards
  • Backstroke 25 yards
  • Efficient sidebreathing
Goggle license attained!!
Dolphin class character icon

Dolphin

  • Legal breaststroke kick
  • Effective pull
  • Breakstroke 25 yards
Shark class character icon

Shark

  • Legal dolphin kick
  • Arms out of the water
  • Butterfly 25 yards
Orca class character icon

Orca

  • Free and back 50 yards
  • 100 IM (fly, back, breast, free)
  • Starts and turns for each stroke