How much total did you pay for your kid's swimming lessons to be legal in 4 strokes?

[Anonymous]

The $90 swim team cost at the time

[Anonymous]

Well, let's see...we're in MoCo.

Aquatots at age 2-3
Beginner 1 for the better part of a year
Beginner 2 ditto
Beginner 3 for about 6 months
2 seasons of Stroke and Turn
2 seasons of SwiMontgomery
1.5 years of developmental winter swim
5 seasons of summer team
1 season of winter club

DC, now 12, can race summer A meets in all 4 strokes depending on the team's needs, and posts alowly improving times year-round (-not- fast: still chasing BB - or slower - in very best strokes at very best moments).

What I like best is that DC considers swimming to be an integral and healthy part of life, and right now plans to swim noncompetitively probably through HS (and definitely on summer team). It has been a good journey to teach perseverance, commitment, and steady progress. Plus DC, though very social, is not a team-sports person, so this is a great fit. It was worth it.

[Anonymous]

We did some very early stuff with them pre COVID and aquatots etc but they had zero competitive strokes in summer 2021 (tried out, didn’t make team at 6 and 8). Then when the Y started doing group lessons I want to say late fall 2021 we put them in that and they did that until they passed level 6 in may, then got on the summer team and were legal in all four strokes by the end of summer 2022

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, let's see...we're in MoCo.

Aquatots at age 2-3
Beginner 1 for the better part of a year
Beginner 2 ditto
Beginner 3 for about 6 months
2 seasons of Stroke and Turn
2 seasons of SwiMontgomery
1.5 years of developmental winter swim
5 seasons of summer team
1 season of winter club

DC, now 12, can race summer A meets in all 4 strokes depending on the team's needs, and posts alowly improving times year-round (-not- fast: still chasing BB - or slower - in very best strokes at very best moments).

What I like best is that DC considers swimming to be an integral and healthy part of life, and right now plans to swim noncompetitively probably through HS (and definitely on summer team). It has been a good journey to teach perseverance, commitment, and steady progress. Plus DC, though very social, is not a team-sports person, so this is a great fit. It was worth it.

What was worth it? OP asked for an amount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, let's see...we're in MoCo.

Aquatots at age 2-3
Beginner 1 for the better part of a year
Beginner 2 ditto
Beginner 3 for about 6 months
2 seasons of Stroke and Turn
2 seasons of SwiMontgomery
1.5 years of developmental winter swim
5 seasons of summer team
1 season of winter club

DC, now 12, can race summer A meets in all 4 strokes depending on the team's needs, and posts alowly improving times year-round (-not- fast: still chasing BB - or slower - in very best strokes at very best moments).

What I like best is that DC considers swimming to be an integral and healthy part of life, and right now plans to swim noncompetitively probably through HS (and definitely on summer team). It has been a good journey to teach perseverance, commitment, and steady progress. Plus DC, though very social, is not a team-sports person, so this is a great fit. It was worth it.

What was worth it? OP asked for an amount.

Same poster...working it out.

Probably $700ish for county lessons
$800ish for Stroke and Turn
$600ish for SwiMontgomery
$1000ish for developmental winter swim
$700 over the years for summer team
$1200 for winter club

So over the course of 10 years the roughest rough cut to date would be maybe $5000 or perhaps as far up as $6000? So call it $50 per month from age 2 onwards. But this is now DC's main/only sport, although DC is clearly a committed rec swimmer.

[Anonymous]

Also i should add that we're MCSL for summer swim, which means we have to be members of our pool in order to sign DC up for summer team. I didn't include that in my summer swim costs, but our pool is about $800/year.

[Anonymous]

We used summer swim - $120 for the summer, private lessons for about $600, Goldfish for about 6 months - I think that's $720 and FINS for 2 years - that's another $1200. They were legal in everything by the end of Goldfish and FINS was more for improvement. So that's $2500. The cheapest path probably would have been Goldfish from the start and then summer swim with 1 year of FINS 1X per week so I think you could get it done for half that especially if they get a lot of pool time in the summer. I think its worth it because they are confident swimmers and we felt it was a good life skill & they can participate in summer swim at our neighborhood pool. We weren't looking to train year-round swimmers.

[Anonymous]

We did years of Arlington county group, semi private and private lessons from 6mo - age 5, nothing for 18mo during Covid, 6 mo of Big Blue, a year of NVSL “mini team”, a year of Norman, and 1 summer of NVSL swim team augmented with 1 30 min session each week with a college age coach.

My kid is not that athletic and legal fly takes a lot of stamina and strength. The turning point for us was getting out of Big Blue and in a program like Norman where he was swimming 2x a week in full length lanes with kids aka bit older and faster than him.

[Anonymous]

$75 to join swim team; my kids just learned from their summer swim coaches. The oldest was legal by age 8; the youngest by age 9 in breast and 10 in fly.

[Anonymous]

Swim with Beth will get her there, and I think it's very affordable. But you're right, it really depends on the kid. Mine will age out of SWB barely legal in butterfly. FWIW, she absolutely doesn't have to be legal in butterfly and breast stroke if summer swim is your goal. DQ's are very common for both strokes way into high school at most pools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Swim with Beth will get her there, and I think it's very affordable. But you're right, it really depends on the kid. Mine will age out of SWB barely legal in butterfly. FWIW, she absolutely doesn't have to be legal in butterfly and breast stroke if summer swim is your goal. DQ's are very common for both strokes way into high school at most pools.

Sure in 8U and some 9s but by the time you get to 11-12 I’d say almost every kid that is actively working on being legal in BR and FL can do it for summer. Yes you might get a weak 3rd swimmer in lower divisions that just can’t pull it together but for MCSL I’m not sure I agree with “way into high school” and “very common”