Category: About FOSS

By Foss Swim School   Foss Swim School has a number of locations around the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, but our new Apple Valley school has extended our proven swimming curriculum to a new audience. As our southernmost location in the Twin Cities, our Apple Valley school is already enrolling new ...

By Foss Swim School It’s been quite a year for world-championship swimmer Regan Smith, a Foss Swim School alum who is a strong contender for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. While the final team will be determined in June, Regan’s history of success at the 2020 Olympic Games ...

By Foss Swim School At FOSS, our motto is “Love Water,” and we know that an essential part of this love is understanding how to be safe around it. Water safety doesn’t happen by accident, and it isn’t a one-time lesson people learn at a specific point in their lives. ...

By Foss Swim School   Life is busy for families, especially when you think about all the scheduled and unscheduled activities kids participate in during any given week. Although we’d like to hope swim school is a can’t miss appointment, inevitably something gets in the way for even the most ...

By Foss Swim School   We are fortunate as a team and as a company to be able to make such a positive impact on the world, and we have fun while doing it! Teaching people to swim both enriches and saves lives, and there’s nothing we’d rather be doing. ...

By Susan Foss, co-founder of Foss Swim School   As the 30th anniversary year of Foss Swim School draws to a close, I feel so happy and proud of what this school has become and of the exceptional people who work here. We knew from the start that to be ...

As Foss Swim School continues to bring our brand of swimming education to the greater St. Louis, MO area, we are excited to share some details of our newest location in the heart of Creve Coeur, a western suburb of the city. Creve Coeur opened its doors for fall quarter, ...

Note: The 9th World Aquatic Masters Championships was heldAug. 2-11, 2023, in Kyushu, Japan. Jon Foss swam in events August 5-8, 2023. Visit the site to learn more. One of the things I love about swimming, (and why I thinkeveryone should learn to swim well), is it unlocks healthy lifelong ...

Our mission at FOSS is to help students become strong, safer, more confident swimmers. We believe our program offers the best path to help swimmers reach that goal and strive to offer excellent value to families who learn in our custom designed pools from passionate, well-trained teachers. But we realize ...

By: Jon Foss As Foss Swim School begins its 30th year in business, I’ve been thinking a lot about the lessons I have learned and put into practice and how humble ideas can grow into something that seems completely different from the outside – and yet has the same heart. ...

By Jon and Susan Foss, co-founders, Foss Swim School As we celebrate our 30 years leading Foss Swim School and helping hundreds of thousands of kids become better swimmers, we find ourselves remembering some of the moments that stood out. Some of those moments are sweet, some are stressful, some ...

By Foss Swim School It is never too late to learn to swim, and even for people who are confident swimmers, there’s always more you can learn and improve. That’s one of our favorite things about this life skill: You never have to be done learning if you don’t want ...

By Foss Swim School In swimming, as with any skill, there’s a difference between learning a thing and actually doing it. Helping nurture young swimmers through that process takes passionate, engaged teachers, praise and reinforcement from parents – and lots and lots of practice! The Foss Swim School curriculum has ...

Log In to View Classes and Enroll By Foss Swim School In 1993, FOSS Swim School was founded with the goal of helping kids learn to swim well for safety, fun, and the benefit of a great life skill. Every aspect of our program and school is purposefully designed to ...

Who knew there was so much choice when it comes to swim schools? As more people come to value the importance of learning to swim for their children — intellectual and physical development for kids, vastly improved water safety, and the well-known physical benefits, not to mention how much fun ...