Nicole L.

Bio: "The Water is My Sky" Hi! My name is Nicole! I have a passion for teaching children how to swim and develop their skills to become independent and confident in the water. Learning how to swim is fun and I pride myself on creating an instructional environment that is exciting, dynamic and open so that my students can get the most out of the experience and grow into strong swimmers. I work with adults and children of all ages (typically ages 1 to 13) offering classes developing swimming skill sets ranging from first-time to advanced swimmers. I enjoy working with parents & toddlers together, adults, and children with special needs. I am an extremely patient instructor with a very upbeat/outgoing personality. I am excited to be here and look forward to sharing my joy for teaching life-saving skills, swimming confidence and fun in the water with you and your children! "All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and someone who believes in them." ~Maggie Johnson

Credentials: Certified CPR / AED / First-Aid via National CPR Foundation. 5+ years lifeguarding and teaching swimming lessons in groups and private lessons.

Specialties: First-time swimmers, intermediate swimmers, sidestroke, freestroke, breaststroke, backstroke, elementary backstroke, butterfly and surface dives.

I graduated from Fordham University in 2003 with a BA in Communications and Media Studies and Business. I was an all state soccer player and have been teaching swimming lessons since I was 16 years old.

Based on the students experience level & goals most students achieve the success in 8-12 lessons. Beginners will learn how to float, tread water, swim under water, dive to the bottom of the pool to get diving rings / toys and basic front crawl stroke. Intermediate swimmers will learn all of the swimming strokes: freestyle, backstroke, sidestroke, elementary backstroke and breast stroke! I use lots of fun tools to make the lessons fun for my students and have an extremely upbeat outgoing personality. I am very patient. I have had a tremendous success teaching and work especially well with students who are afraid to go under water.