Lessons and Pre-Team 

Swim Lessons and the Pre-Team program at Albuquerque Academy are both SwimAmerica programs, hosted, organized, and coached by Charger Aquatics staff.

Pre-Team at Albuquerque Academy is a great way to get your youngsters to prepare for more competetive swim teams, or even just test the waters with different strokes and distances! 

If you are unsure what program would be the best fit for your child, broad descriptions of the SwimAmerica levels that we use as guidelines for our introductory programs will be listed below!

The Pre-Team program roughly runs through SwimAmerica levels 6/7-10, and we also offer swim lessons year-round which cover levels 1-6, for our truly new swimmers.

Registration for both the Pre-Team programs and Lessons offered through CAQ, is available here.

Swim America Levels:

1 - Working on getting their head underwater and blowing bubbles.

2 - Starting to float around and get a feel for water without touching the bottom.

3 - Isolating the motion of kicking.

4 - Foundation of freestyle, starting to 'crawl' around the pool.

5 - Basic freestyle 'crawling' with continuous breathing.

6 - Freestyle, starting to work on backstroke (Start of Pre-Team).

7 - Backstroke, freestlye, and foundations for breaststroke and butterfly.

8 - Foundations of all four strokes & breathing, working on adding turns.

9 - Able to swim at least a length of each stroke irregularly utilizing turns, ability to work on basic stroke drills.

10 - Able to swim multiple lenghts of each stroke with consistent turns, focusing on increasing distance and adding more complicated stroke drills.