Located in Purcellville, Virginia
Welcome to SwimWith Jennifer! I offer private swimming lessons in northern Virginia.
I’m now completely booked through summer 2024. If you’d like to be on my 2025 waiting list, please email: SwimWithJennifer@gmail.com, sending me your name and phone number. In March 2025 I’ll contact you regarding lessons.
If you are interested in lessons for your child in 2024, please visit the “Registration” page and send me an email with the requested information about your child.
Send registration information to:
SwimWithJennifer@gmail.com
Registration and scheduling for 2024 swimming lessons will begin on March 2, 2024
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See “Register” page for details.
I have been teaching swimming since 1982, when I started out as a swim teacher at the famous “Jan Thomas Swim School” in Clovis, California, where I taught for 6 years. Later, I branched out on my own and had a swim school in the Silicon Valley, just south of San Francisco. I’ve received certifications in Water Safety and Rescue, Infant and Adult CPR, Life-guarding and Water Aerobics. Our family has lived in Denver, Colorado, Mexico City, Mexico, and we moved to Oakton, Virginia in 2011. I love teaching swimming and have developed my teaching method based on years of various training and teaching experiences.
My teaching philosophy is that people generally feel safer and learn more quickly in a one-on-one lesson where the teacher is able to give her full attention and time. While I do teach “Baby And Me” classes, all students over 2 years old are taught in a one-on-one lesson. I believe in a gentle, focused, fun, learning-intensive lesson. I have found that my students typically learn more in 5-10 private lessons than they do in an entire summer of group lessons.
I received my university education at Brigham Young University, majoring in English. I’ve also taught and tutored English through the years. I am married to the greatest man I know, and am blessed to have 3 wonderful children. We love animals and are currently the parents of rescue dogs.
Finally, I love to swim, I love to teach swimming, and I love working with people. My life has been greatly blessed by my work in swimming, and I feel lucky to have a skill which not only benefits the lives of others but brings me such great joy as well.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
References are also available upon request.
