Ages 4-5 years
Come make a splash this in Huskies Group Swim Lessons! American Red Cross Preschool Aquatics levels are being offered at the SDC Pool for ages 4 to 5 years old.
Space will be provided for personal items on the pool deck. Goggles are highly recommended. Showering is required before entering the water. Class size is limited.
Location
SDC Pool
The Student Development Complex lap pool and dive tank are licensed by the State of Michigan and inspected by the Western U.P. District Health Department. Accordingly, the water is analyzed and the temperature is taken daily. The new heating system keeps the water at a constant 82-83 degrees.
Youth Supervision in Locker Rooms
To help ensure a safe and comfortable environment for all participants, we strongly recommend that a parent or guardian accompany their child in the locker room at all times.
If you are using the pool and your child is not able to be accompanied by an adult in the locker room, we kindly ask that they use the private changing tents located on the pool deck instead.
Thank you for helping us keep our facility safe, respectful, and welcoming for everyone!
Special Requirements
All students must have appropriate swimwear (no cutoffs or street clothes) and a towel. Students should bring goggles. A parent or legal guardian is required to sign waiver of liability and concussion awareness forms for all youth classes.
Description: Preschool Aquatics is designed to orient young preschoolers to the aquatic environment and to help them gain basic aquatic skills. In addition, participants start learning about how to be safe around water.
Learning Objectives:
- Techniques for entering and exiting the water
- Blow bubbles through mouth and nose
- Bobbing
- Retrieve submerged objects
- Front and back glides and floats
- Body control and manipulation in the water
- Tread water using arm and hand actions
- Alternating and simultaneous leg and arm actions on front and back
- Treading water
- Learn water safety skills
No previous swimming lesson skills or history are needed to participate in this level.
Fall 2025
New Registration System Launching Fall 2025!
We’re upgrading to a new recreation program registration system to better support youth and adult programs!
Important for Parents/Guardians:
To register your child for any youth program (like swim lessons or youth sports), you’ll need to:
1. Create your account *Note: Due to system constraints, only current students, faculty, and staff may use an MTU email. All others must use or create a different email address to create an account.
2. Add your children as your affiliates (with their date of birth)
3. Register your child through their affiliate profile (profile options in top right corner), not your own, for any program with an age requirement
This ensures accurate participant info and correct age group placement.
Create your accounts early to be ready!
Additional information on how to create your user account can be found here.
Additional information on how to create your child’s affiliate account can be found here.
Registration for Fall session 2 opens September 24, 2025, 8:00 am.
Days/Times
Mondays, 5:10pm-5:50pm
OR
Saturdays, 11:10am-11:50am
MONDAYS SESSION 1: SEPTEMBER 8, 15, 22, 29, OCTOBER 6, 13, 5:10PM-5:50PM,
Registration for session 1 opens August 6, 2025, 8:00am and closes August 27, 2025, 11:59pm.
MONDAYS SESSION 2: OCTOBER 20, 27, NOVEMBER 3, 10, 17, DECEMBER 1, 5:10PM-5:50PM, REGISTER HERE
Registration for session 2 opens September 24, 2025, 8:00am and closes October 15, 2025, 11:59pm.
SATURDAYS SESSION 1: SEPTEMBER 6, 13, 20, 27, OCTOBER 4, 11, 11:10AM-11:50AM,
Registration for session 1 opens August 6, 2025, 8:00am and closes August 27, 2025, 11:59pm.
SATURDAYS SESSION 2: OCTOBER 25, NOVEMER 1, 8, 15, 22, DECEMBER 6, 11:10AM-11:50AM, REGISTER HERE
Registration for session 2 opens September 24, 2025, 8:00am and closes October 15, 2025, 11:59pm.
Cost
$77 per participant per session
Registration and payment can be completed online, or at the SDC Ticket Office. A parent or legal guardian is required to sign waiver of liability and concussion awareness forms for all youth classes.
MTU Recreation Programs Cancellation Policy
If the class you are looking for is full, please fill out the waitlist form found here or contact Annie Bengry, Aquatics Manager, at ambengry@mtu.edu / 906-487-2995. We will try to add additional sections based on level demand.
Questions?
Contact Ann Bengry, Aquatics Manager, at 906-487-2995 or email ambengry@mtu.edu.
About the Aquatics Manager
Ann Bengry comes to Michigan Tech from Saginaw Valley State University, where she served as the Assistant Swimming and Diving coach for the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons. At SVSU, Annie led the sprint group and coordinated the Cardinal Aquatic Swim Lessons program. Annie attended Saint Leo University, where she served as a Graduate Assistant Coach for the Men’s and Women’s Swimming teams from 2015-2018. While earning her Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Sports Business, she helped assist in coaching multiple All-American student-athletes and guided several student-athletes to national qualifying performances.
Prior to Saint Leo, Annie, a native of Marquette, MI, served as a volunteer coach for Northern Michigan University’s Women’s Swim Team while earning her Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Science.
A former collegiate swimmer and diver, Annie also trained for three years as an Olympic weightlifter at the US Olympic Training Site at Northern Michigan University. Annie has also served as a swim coach, lifeguard, swim instructor, and aquatics assistant at the YMCA of Marquette County and the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA. She is a certified American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor, American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor® and American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor® Trainer.
